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Spirit possession as self-transformative experience in late medieval Catholic Europe..” In
Self and self-transformation in the history of religions, 150 - 170. Oxford University Press, 2002.
Publisher's Version Sluhovsky, M. “
The Devil in the Convent..”
American Historical Review, no. 5 (2002): 1379.
Publisher's VersionAbstractThis article examines the relationship between demonic possession and female spirituality in convents during late medieval and early modern Europe. The author argues the misdiagnosis of possession was acutally a result of psychological and spiritual tensions due to contradictory expectations of the nuns.
