The English Exorcist: John Darrell and the Shaping of Early Modern English Protestant Demonology Walsh Brendan C.
The English Exorcist: John Darrell and the Shaping of Early Modern English Protestant Demonology Walsh Brendan C. In 1598, the English clergyman John Darrell was brought before the High Commission at…
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The English Exorcist: John Darrell and the Shaping of Early Modern English Protestant Demonology Walsh Brendan C.
In 1598, the English clergyman John Darrell was brought before the High Commission at Lambeth Palace to face charges of fraud and counterfeiting. to counterfeite" demonic possession over a ten-year period, fashioning himself into a miracle worker. The ecclesiastical authorities alleged that he had "taught 4.
The High Commission of John Darrell became a flashpoint for theological and demonological debate, functioning as a catalyst for spiritual reform in the early seventeenth-century English Church.John Darrell has long been maligned by scholars; a historiographical perception that this book challenges. Coming to the attention of the public through his dramatic and successful role as an exorcist in the late sixteenth century, Darrell became a symbol of Puritan spirituality and the subject of fierce ecclesiastical persecution. The English Exorcist is the first study to