Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Nuns, Witchcraft, and the Inquisition
- Chapter 1 Female Religious, Claustration, and Santa Chiara of Carpi
- Chapter 2 The Outbreak and Maleficia
- Chapter 3 The Confessor and Love Magic
- Chapter 4 The Exorcists and the Demons
- Chapter 5 Sisters Dealta and Ippolita under Attack
- Chapter 6 Bellacappa's Defense
- Chapter 7 The Waning of the Possessions
- Conclusion
- Appendix A
- Appendix B
- List of Abbreviations
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- Index
Contents
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 September 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Nuns, Witchcraft, and the Inquisition
- Chapter 1 Female Religious, Claustration, and Santa Chiara of Carpi
- Chapter 2 The Outbreak and Maleficia
- Chapter 3 The Confessor and Love Magic
- Chapter 4 The Exorcists and the Demons
- Chapter 5 Sisters Dealta and Ippolita under Attack
- Chapter 6 Bellacappa's Defense
- Chapter 7 The Waning of the Possessions
- Conclusion
- Appendix A
- Appendix B
- List of Abbreviations
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- Index
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- The Scourge of DemonsPossession, Lust, and Witchcraft in a Seventeenth-Century Italian Convent, pp. vii - viiiPublisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2009