The scourge of demons : possession, lust, and witchcraft in a seventeenth-century Italian convent /
Watt, Jeffrey R.(Jeffrey Rodgers),1958-
Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press ; Woodbridge : Boydell & Brewer,
2009.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-290) and index.
Introduction : nuns, witchcraft, and the inquisition -- Female religious, claustration, and Santa Chiara of Carpi -- The outbreak and maleficia -- The confessor and love magic -- The exorcists and the demons -- Sisters Dealta and Ippolita under attack -- Bellacappa's defense -- The waning of the possessions.
Monastero Santa Chiara (Carpi, Italy)
Demoniac possession
Witchcraft