Between Worlds: Dybbuks, Exorcists, and Early Modern Judaism.(Book review)

Renaissance Quarterly;  March 22, 2006 ;   Valente, Michaela;   654 words ......Dybbuks, Exorcists, and Early Modern Judaism. Jewish Culture...0-8122-3724-2. In early modern culture, noteworthy...about spiritual and demonic religion and magic...approaches to exorcism and demonic possession when the three main...it deals with the early modern ...

Exorcism and Its Texts: Subjectivity in Early Modern Literature of England...

The Catholic Historical Review;  July 1, 2005 ;   Sharpe, James;   605 words ......Subjectivity in Early Modern Literature...phenomena of demonic possession and exorcism...category of "demonic possession" is problematized...various ways by early modern observers...references to demonic possession and exorcism...phenomena of ...

Philip C. Almond. Demonic Possession and Exorcism in Early Modern England:...

Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft;  December 22, 2006 ;   Sluhovsky, Moshe;   787 words ...PHILIP C. ALMOND. Demonic Possession and Exorcism in Early Modern England: Contemporary Texts...Almond renders historians of early modern England an important service...three recent editions of early modern English possession tales...

Reading the Early Modern Passions: Essays in the Cultural History of...

Shakespeare Studies;  January 1, 2006 ;   Henderson, Diana E.;   787 words ...Reading the Early Modern Passions: Essays in the Cultural...existence and distinctive profile of an early modern European emotional universe (1...perspective that students and scholars of early modern creative expression bring to the...

The Demonic Side of Witchcraft.(Discerning Spirits: Divine and Demonic...

CLIO;  June 22, 2006 ;   Traister, Barbara H.;   787 words ......Divine and Demonic Possession in the Middle...451 pages. Demonic Possession and Exorcism in Early Modern England...of claims: Demonic possession was an ancient...rendered demonic possession the more...

Betraying Ourselves: Forms of Self-Representation in Early Modern English...

Renaissance Quarterly;  September 22, 2002 ;   Corthell, Ronald;   787 words ......Ourselves: Forms of Self-Representation in Early Modern English Texts New York: Palgrave/St...collection, one of the titles in the Early Modern Literature in History series from the...issues that have emerged in the study of early modern life-writing. These range from factual...

Early Modern Catholicism: Essays in Honour of John W. O'Malley, S.J.

The Catholic Historical Review;  April 1, 2005 ;   Bireley, Robert;   787 words ...Early Modern European Early Modern Catholicism: Essays in Honour of John W.O'Malley, S.J. Edited...O'Malley, who has had a major impact on our understanding of "Early Modern Catholicism." Indeed, he first effectively championed this term...

Queer/Early/Modern.(Book review)

Renaissance Quarterly;  December 22, 2006 ;   Long, Kathleen;   683 words ...Carla Freccero. Queer/Early/Modern. Durham: Duke University Press...For scholars working on gender in early modern texts, this book is both a useful...complex, and flexible readings of early modern texts. A significant portion of...

Religion and Culture in Early Modern Russia and Ukraine

Canadian Slavonic Papers;  March 1, 2004 ;   Trice, Tom R;   787 words ......Kollmann, eds. Religion and Culture in Early Modern Russia and Ukraine. DeKaIb, 111.: Northern...ambiguous nature of lived experience in early modern Russia and Ukraine, this collection...systems on the political history of early modern Rus'. Drawing on studies of pre-industrial...

Jennifer A. Low, Manhood and the Duel: Masculinity in Early Modern Drama...

Medium Aevum;  September 22, 2004 ;   Chambers, Mark;   664 words ......Low, Manhood and the Duel. Masculinity in Early Modern Drama and Culture, Early Modern Cultural Studies, 1550-1700 (Basingstoke...Low's Manhood and the Duel. Masculinity in Early Modern Drama and Culture offers a largely beneficial...

Shades of Difference: Mythologies of Skin Color in Early Modern...

Shakespeare Studies;  January 1, 2006 ;   Royster, Francesca T.;   787 words ......Mythologies of Skin Color in Early Modern England By Sujata Iyengar Philadelphia...Mythologies of Skin Color in Early Modern England arrives at a particularly...moment in the development of early modern race studies, where the field...

Male Delivery: Reproduction, Effeminacy, and Pregnant Men in Early Modern...

Renaissance Quarterly;  December 22, 2006 ;   Kallendorf, Hilaire;   787 words ......Reproduction, Effeminacy, and Pregnant Men in Early Modern Spain. Nashville: Vanderbilt University...to demonstrate, the evidence for an early modern preoccupation with the issue, as it...metrosexual were simply not a part of the early modern vocabulary. To try this hard to find...

The turn to religion in Early Modern English studies.

Criticism;  January 1, 2004 ;   Jackson, Ken Marotti, Arthur F.;   787 words ......clearly something new was afoot in early modern English studies. Religion was once again at the center in interpretations of early modern culture. Not that religion had ever...and contexts never really ceased in early modern literary study but rather that they...

Reading the Early Modern Passions: Essays in the Cultural History of...

College Literature;  January 1, 2006 ;   Crane, Mary Thomas;   787 words ......Floyd-Wilson, eds. 2002. Reading the Early Modern Passions: Essays in the Cultural History...96 hc. $19.96 sc. 392 pp. Reading the Early Modern Passions, a collection of essays edited...cutting edge of a paradigm shift in early modern studies with the simple fact that, in...

Hilaire Kallendorf. Exorcism and Its Texts: Subjectivity in Early Modern...

Cervantes: Bulletin of the Cervantes Society of America;  September 22, 2004 ;   Storm, Mel;   787 words ......Its Texts: Subjectivity in Early Modern Literature of England and Spain...so at risk of preemption by demonic powers, it is little wonder...manifestations of this medieval theme in early modern literature, taking issue along...Historicists, that desacralizes the early modern ...