Demons and illness from antiquity to the early-modern period /
edited by Siam Bhayro and Catherine Rider.
- xiv, 433 páginas ; 25 centímetros.
- Magical and religious literature of Late Antiquity, Volume 5 2211-016X ; .
Índices : páginas 419-433.
Introduction / Siam Bhayro and Catherine Rider -- Ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt. Shifting Alignments : The Dichotomy of Benevolent and Malevolent Demons in Mesopotamia / Gina Konstantopoulos -- The Natural and Supernatural Aspects of Fever in Mesopotamian Medical Texts / András Bácksay -- Illness as Divine Punishment : The Nature and Function of the Disease-Carrier Demons in the Ancient Egyptian Magical Texts / Rita Lucarelli -- Demons at Work in Ancient Mesopotamia / Lorenzo Verderame -- Second Temple Judaism and Late Antiquity. Demons and Illness in Second Temple Judaism : Theory and Practice / Ida Fröhlich -- Illness and Healing through Spell and Incantation in the Dead Sea Scrolls / David Hamidović -- Conceptualizing Demons in Late Antique Judaism / Gideon Bohak -- Oneiric Aggressive Magic : Sleep Disorders in Late Antique Jewish Tradition / Alessia Bellusci -- The Influence of Demons on the Human Mind According to Athenagoras and Tatian / Chiara Crosignani -- Demonic Anti-Music and Spiritual Disorder in the Life of Antony / Sophie Sawicka-Sykes -- Over-eating Demoniacs in Late Antique Hagiography / Sophie Lunn-Rockliffe -- Medieval. Miracles and Madness: Dispelling Demons in Twelfth-Century Hagiography / Anne E. Bailey -- Demons in Lapidaries? The Evidence of the Madrid MS Escorial, h.I.15 / M. Carolina Escobar Vargas -- The Melancholy of the Necromancer in Arnau de Vilanova's Epistle against Demonic Magic / Sebastià Giralt -- Demons, Illness and Spiritual Aids in Natural Magic and Image Magic / Lauri Ockenström -- Between Medicine and Magic : Spiritual Aetiology and Therapeutics in Medieval Islam / Liana Saif -- Demons, Saints, and the Mad in the Twelfth-Century Miracles of Thomas Becket / Claire Trenery -- Early Modernity. The Post-Reformation Challenge to Demonic Possession / Harman Bhogal -- From A Discoverie to The Triall of Witchcraft : Doctor Cotta and Godly John / Pierre Kapitaniak -- Healing with Demons? Preternatural Philosophy and Superstitious Cures in Spanish Inquisitorial Courts / Bradley J. Mollmann -- Afterword : Pandaemonium / Peregrine Horden.