Divine Hysteria. Readings of the Sacred Disease in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries

While historians have explored the deployment of medical expertisein studies of the supernatural for some time, the medical report on supernaturalphenomena thus far has evaded similar scholarly attention. Thischapter puts the expert report centre stage and focuses on the religious contextof ‘hyster...

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Main Authors:	Tine Van Osselaer, Kristof Smeyers
Format:	Article
Language:	deu
Published:	StudienVerlag 2021-01-01
Series:	Österreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften
Subjects:	religion hysteria medical expertise supernatural Magdalena Loger John Nichols Thom
Online Access:	https://journals.univie.ac.at/index.php/oezg/article/view/5565

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title	Divine Hysteria. Readings of the Sacred Disease in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries
title_short	Divine Hysteria. Readings of the Sacred Disease in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries
title_full	Divine Hysteria. Readings of the Sacred Disease in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries
title_fullStr	Divine Hysteria. Readings of the Sacred Disease in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries
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description	While historians have explored the deployment of medical expertisein studies of the supernatural for some time, the medical report on supernaturalphenomena thus far has evaded similar scholarly attention. Thischapter puts the expert report centre stage and focuses on the religious contextof ‘hysteria’ diagnoses. Through an analysis of two controversial mysticswho were examined and diagnosed with corporeal symptoms of the ‘sacreddisease’ even though their cultural contexts differ substantially, we argue thata historicised reading of the report that integrates the circumstances of itsproduction as well as its circulation, reiterations, and legacies allows for anexamination of the genre’s role as source for wider (counter) expertise andauthority in evaluations of the supernatural.
topic	religion hysteria medical expertise supernatural Magdalena Loger John Nichols Thom
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Divine Hysteria. Readings of the Sacred Disease in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries

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