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The Strange Case of Ermine de Reims - A Medieval Woman Between Demons and Saints (Hardcover)
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The Strange Case of Ermine de Reims - A Medieval Woman Between Demons and Saints (Hardcover)
Series: The Middle Ages Series
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In 1384, a poor and illiterate peasant woman named Ermine moved to
the city of Reims with her elderly husband. Her era was troubled by
war, plague, and schism within the Catholic Church, and Ermine
could easily have slipped unobserved through the cracks of history.
After the loss of her husband, however, things took a remarkable
but frightening turn. For the last ten months of her life, Ermine
was tormented by nightly visions of angels and demons. In her
nocturnal terrors, she was attacked by animals, beaten and
kidnapped by devils in disguise, and exposed to carnal spectacles;
on other nights, she was blessed by saints, even visited by the
Virgin Mary. She confessed these strange occurrences to an
Augustinian friar known as Jean le Graveur, who recorded them all
in vivid detail. Was Ermine a saint in the making, an impostor, an
incipient witch, or a madwoman? Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski ponders
answers to these questions in the historical and theological
context of this troubled woman's experiences. With empathy and
acuity, Blumenfeld-Kosinski examines Ermine's life in
fourteenth-century Reims, her relationship with her confessor, her
ascetic and devotional practices, and her reported encounters with
heavenly and hellish beings. Supplemented by translated excerpts
from Jean's account, The Strange Case of Ermine de Reims brings to
life an episode that helped precipitate one of the major clerical
controversies of late medieval Europe, revealing surprising truths
about the era's conceptions of piety and possession.
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