TY - JOUR
T1 - Medicine and Religion in Early Dominican Demonology
AU - Even-Ezra, Ayelet
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2018.
PY - 2018/10/1
Y1 - 2018/10/1
N2 - The article explores the theories of Roland of Cremona op (1259), the first Dominican master of theology in Paris and a practising physician, regarding demonic influence on body and soul. Roland uses contemporary neurological theories of voluntary motion and cognition to explain how precisely demons might move the bodily members of possessed subjects, induce seductive images and implant scientific knowledge. The complex interaction of fields of knowledge demonstrated in his unique theories sheds light on the intellectual climate of the early thirteenth century in general, and of the early Parisian Dominican school in particular.
AB - The article explores the theories of Roland of Cremona op (1259), the first Dominican master of theology in Paris and a practising physician, regarding demonic influence on body and soul. Roland uses contemporary neurological theories of voluntary motion and cognition to explain how precisely demons might move the bodily members of possessed subjects, induce seductive images and implant scientific knowledge. The complex interaction of fields of knowledge demonstrated in his unique theories sheds light on the intellectual climate of the early thirteenth century in general, and of the early Parisian Dominican school in particular.
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U2 - 10.1017/S0022046917002810
DO - 10.1017/S0022046917002810
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AN - SCOPUS:85044756587
SN - 0022-0469
VL - 69
SP - 728
EP - 745
JO - Journal of Ecclesiastical History
JF - Journal of Ecclesiastical History
IS - 4
ER -