Strange Case of Ermine de Reims A Medieval Woman Between Demons and Saints

Name: Strange Case of Ermine de Reims A Medieval Woman Between Demons and Saints
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ISBN: 9780812247152

ISBN-10: 0812247159

ISBN-13: 9780812247152

Edition: 2015

Authors: Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski, Ruth Mazo Karras

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In 1384, a poor and illiterate peasant woman called Ermine moved to the city of Reims with her elderly husband. Her era was troubled by war, plague, and papal schism within the Catholic Church, and Ermine could easily have slipped unobserved through the cracks of history. After her relocation and the loss of her husband, however, things took a remarkable but frightening turn. For the last ten months of her life, Ermine was tormented by nightly visions of angels and demons. In her nocturnal terrors, she was attacked by animals, beaten and kidnapped by devils in disguise, and exposed to carnal spectacles; on other nights, she was blessed by saints, even visited by the Virgin Mary. Her strange…

Book details

List price: $99.95
Copyright year: 2015
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Publication date: 5/28/2015
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 248
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 1.474
Language: English