TY - JOUR
T1 - John Dee and the Seven in Lancashire: Possession, Exorcism, and Apocalyse in Elizabethan Engand
AU - Bowd, Stephen
PY - 2010/1/1
Y1 - 2010/1/1
N2 - STEPHEN BOWD, 'John Dee and the Seven in Lancashire: Possession, Exorcism, and Apocalypse in Elizabethan England'. In 1596 John Dee, warden of Christ's College of Manchester, was approached by Nicholas Starkey of Cleworth Hall for advice about some members of his household who had been possessed by the devil for almost two years. Dee's involvement with the exorcism of the 'Seven of Lancashire', as they were known, was closer than has been previously thought and it is reconstructed in this article on the basis of published and manuscript sources. Dee's longstanding interest in possession and exorcism is also described here and placed in the context of religious tensions in England, particularly in the north, at the end of the sixteenth century.
AB - STEPHEN BOWD, 'John Dee and the Seven in Lancashire: Possession, Exorcism, and Apocalypse in Elizabethan England'. In 1596 John Dee, warden of Christ's College of Manchester, was approached by Nicholas Starkey of Cleworth Hall for advice about some members of his household who had been possessed by the devil for almost two years. Dee's involvement with the exorcism of the 'Seven of Lancashire', as they were known, was closer than has been previously thought and it is reconstructed in this article on the basis of published and manuscript sources. Dee's longstanding interest in possession and exorcism is also described here and placed in the context of religious tensions in England, particularly in the north, at the end of the sixteenth century.
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U2 - 10.1179/007817210X12738429860743
DO - 10.1179/007817210X12738429860743
M3 - Article
SN - 0078-172X
VL - 47
SP - 233
EP - 246
JO - Northern History
JF - Northern History
IS - 2
ER -