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BelieveNotEverySpirit Believe Not Every Spirit Possession, Mysticism, & Discernment in Early Modern Catholicism moshe sluhovsky the university of chicago press Chicago& London moshe sluhovskyisprofessorofhistoryattheHebrewUniversity ofJerusalemandvisitingassociateprofessoratBrownUniversity. HeistheauthorofPatronessofParis:RitualsofDevotion inEarlyModernFrance. TheUniversityofChicagoPress,Chicago60637 TheUniversityofChicagoPress,Ltd.,London (cid:2)C 2007byTheUniversityofChicago Allrightsreserved.Published2007 PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 09 08 07 1 2 3 4 5 isbn-13:978-0-226-76282-1 (cloth) isbn-10:0-226-76282-3 (cloth) LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Sluhovsky,Moshe,1958– Believenoteveryspirit:possession,mysticism,&discernmentinearlymodern Catholicism/MosheSluhovsky. p. cm. Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. isbn-13:978-0-226-76282-1(cloth:alk.paper) isbn-10:0-226-76282-3(cloth:alk.paper) 1.Demonology. 2.Discernmentofspirits. 3.Demoniacpossession. 4.Spiritpossession. 5.Exorcism. 6.Mysticism. I.Title. bt975.s58 2007 (cid:3) 235.4—dc22 2006018189 (cid:2)∞ Thepaperusedinthispublicationmeetstheminimumrequire- mentsoftheAmericanNationalStandardforInformationSciences— PermanenceofPaperforPrintedLibraryMaterials,ansiz39.48-1992. ForJamesN.Green & ForYo’avandNa’aman Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 part one: possession & exorcism 1:TrivializingPossession 13 2:ThePrevalenceofaMundanePractice 33 3:FromPraxistoPrescribedRitual 61 part two: mysticism 4:LaSpiritualite´a` laMode 97 5:Contemplation,Possession,& SexualMisconduct 137 part three: discernment 6:AnatomyoftheSoul 169 7:DiscerningWomen 207 part four: intersections 8:TheDevilintheConvent 233 9:Conclusions 265 Notes 269 Bibliography 325 Index 361 Acknowledgments AsIfinishthisbook,Iamverypleasedtoacknowledgethesupport,help, andadviceIhavegottenovertheyearsfrommanyfriendsandcolleagues. Twentyyearsago,NatalieZemonDavisandPeterBrownstartedtoenrich my thinking about history, religion, gender, and the connections among them.Theirsupportandfriendshipsincethenhavebeenasimportantas theiroriginalimpactonme.InJerusalem,Ihavebenefitedfromconver- sations and much more with Yossi Chajes,Esther Cohen,BatyaFriesel, Melila Hellner-Eshed, Tamar Herzig, and Michael Heyd. Astar’s pres- enceinJerusalemhasalsobeenasourceofjoyandareasontoneverwant to leave. This book project started many years ago, while I was a post- doctoral fellow at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California.IthankSusanDavis,PhilHoffman,RosyMeiron,andBryant Simonfortheirgenerousfriendshipthenandsince.InLosAngeles,JoeA. Boone,AliceEchols,PaulLerner,PatMorton,PeteSigal,MarlaStone, andAliceWexlerlistenedtomyideas,asdidJesu´sEscobarandKatherine FlemingandZviBen-DorBeniteinNewYork.AlainFaudemayinParis andMalcolmDaniel,DarrylMorrison,andthelateDianeShalet-Strong inNewYorkwerealwaysreadytooffermehomesawayfromhome. InstitutionalthanksareduetotheDepartmentofHistoryattheHebrew UniversityofJerusalemforgrantingmemorethanmyshareofleaves,and totheDepartmentofHistoryatCaliforniaStateUniversity,LongBeach, and especially its amazing ex-chair Sharon Sievers. Much of this book waswrittenduringtheacademicyear2003–4,whichIspentastheHaynes Fellow at the National Humanities Center in North Carolina. I wish to thank the center’s entire staff for making it a wonderful and immensely

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