The English Exorcist: John Darrell and the Shaping of Early Modern English Protestant Demonology
Brendan C. Walsh, "The English Exorcist: John Darrell and the Shaping of Early Modern English Protestant Demonology "
English | ISBN: 0367894017 | 2020 | 318 pages | PDF | 2 MB
English | ISBN: 0367894017 | 2020 | 318 pages | PDF | 2 MB
In 1598, the English clergyman John Darrell was brought before the High Commission at Lambeth Palace to face charges of fraud and counterfeiting. The ecclesiastical authorities alleged that he had "taught 4. to counterfeite" demonic possession over a ten-year period, fashioning himself into a miracle worker. 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 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.
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