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...
Main Authors: | Tine Van Osselaer, Kristof Smeyers |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | deu |
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StudienVerlag
2021-01-01
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Series: | Österreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften |
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Online Access: | https://journals.univie.ac.at/index.php/oezg/article/view/5565 |
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