Demon Possession in Anglo-Saxon England

Peter Dendle is Associate Professor of English at Penn State Mont Alto

• Acknowledgments Abbreviations Preface Introduction 1. Backgrounds to Anglo-Saxon Exorcism 2. Medical and Liturgical Responses 3. Demon Possession in Narrative Portrayals 4. Neurological and Behavioral Pathologies in the Early Middle Ages Conclusions and Further Questions Works Cited Index

"This is a richly learned and highly readable book. It is seeded throughout with a wealth of comparative material from Carolingian, Merovingian, Late Antique, and contemporary sources. [...] Peter Dendle is to be congratulated on an admirably detailed study that complements the more literary and conceptual bent of his earlier book, Satan Unbound: The Devil in Old English Narrative Literature (2001)." Alice Jorgensen, Trinity College, Dublin; review in the Journal of English and Germanic Philology