Andreea Marculescu, "Demonic Possession, Vulnerability, and Performance in Medieval French Drama "
English | ISBN: 1433130777 | 2018 | 148 pages | PDF | 4 MB
English | ISBN: 1433130777 | 2018 | 148 pages | PDF | 4 MB
Just like the modern hysteric, a figure that catalyzes clinical vocabularies confirming medieval theological anxieties, the demoniac has been considered an "anomalous" and "abnormal" manifestation of womanhood. Incapable of self-governance, both linguistic and corporeal, the medieval possessed is placed in the category of the pathological. The symptoms of possession are part of a multilayered discourse coined by medieval theologians, authors of
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