Presenting a remarkable set of previously unpublished papers, this
book concerns the bewitchment, possession and exorcism of two
seventeenth-century nuns living in exile in an English convent in
the Spanish Netherlands. The two women left behind an extensive set
of personal writing that reveals unprecedented detail about their
devotional lives and spiritual states before, during and after
exorcism. Unlike other similar cases, here the women write for
themselves; for the first time in 350 years this book allows their
voices - and their silences - to resound in all their vibrancy. An
extensive introduction discusses the politics of piety and
possession at a time when exorcism had become increasingly
contentious, amidst conflicting claims for rival church reform. The
book includes both autobiographical and biographical material,
written by the nuns and about them, and casting new light on
processes of female self-writing at just the time when the 'modern
subject' is often said to have emerged.
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