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English Catholics and the Supernatural, 1553-1829 (Hardcover, New Ed)
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English Catholics and the Supernatural, 1553-1829 (Hardcover, New Ed)
Series: Catholic Christendom, 1300-1700
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In spite of an upsurge in interest in the social history of the
Catholic community and an ever-growing body of literature on early
modern 'superstition' and popular religion, the English Catholic
community's response to the invisible world of the preternatural
and supernatural has remained largely neglected. Addressing this
oversight, this book explores Catholic responses to the
supernatural world, setting the English Catholic community in the
contexts of the wider Counter-Reformation and the confessional
culture of early modern England. In so doing, it fulfils the need
for a study of how English Catholics related to manifestations of
the devil (witchcraft and possession) and the dead (ghosts) in the
context of Catholic attitudes to the supernatural world as a whole
(including debates on miracles). The study further provides a
comprehensive examination of the ways in which English Catholics
deployed exorcism, the church's ultimate response to the devil.
Whilst some aspects of the Catholic response have been touched on
in the course of broader studies, few scholars have gone beyond the
evidence contained within anti-Catholic polemical literature to
examine in detail what Catholics themselves said and thought. Given
that Catholics were consistently portrayed as 'superstitious' in
Protestant literature, the historian must attend to Catholic voices
on the supernatural in order to avoid a disastrously unbalanced
view of Catholic attitudes. This book provides the first analysis
of the Catholic response to the supernatural and witchcraft and how
it related to a characteristic Counter-Reformation preoccupation,
the phenomenon of exorcism.
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