Medicine and Religion in Early Dominican Demonology

Ayelet Even-Ezra

doi:https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022046917002810

Medicine and Religion in Early Dominican Demonology

Ayelet Even-Ezra

Department of History

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

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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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	728-745
Number of pages	18
Journal	Journal of Ecclesiastical History
Volume	69
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022046917002810
State	Published - 1 Oct 2018

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Religious studies

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