Bøker av Peter Dendle

The devil is perhaps the single-most recurring character in Old English narrative literature. Dendle argues that the devil's nebulous character reflects anxieties in the early medieval understanding of the territorial distribution of the moral cosmos.

Concepts of demon possession and exorcism provided a outlet for expressing the psychological, biological, and sociopolitical dysfunctions of society. A reexamination of the available sources describing the possessed and a study of the currently recognized medical and psychiatric conditions that may be relevant to and resemble medieval possession.

Fresh examinations of the role of medicinal plants in medieval thought and practice and how they contributed to broader ideas concerning the body, religion and identity.