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What could a Student of Medicine learn from a Demonologist? Some remarks on: Siam Bhayro and Catherine Rider (eds.), Demons and Illness from Antiquity to the Early-Modern Period, Brill, 2017, 425 pages

Publication date: 11.07.2018

The Polish Journal of the Arts and Culture. New Series, 2017, 6 (2/2017), pp. 133 - 140

Authors

Wojciech Kosior
Centre for Comparative Studies of Civilisations of the Jagiellonian University, Grodzka 52 Street, 31-044 Krakow
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1555-5952 Orcid
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What could a Student of Medicine learn from a Demonologist? Some remarks on: Siam Bhayro and Catherine Rider (eds.), Demons and Illness from Antiquity to the Early-Modern Period, Brill, 2017, 425 pages

References

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2. Bailey A. E., Miracles and Madness: Dispelling Demons in Twelfth-Century Hagiography, in Demons and Illness…, pp. 235–255.

3. Bhayro S., Rider C., Introduction, in Demons and Illness…, pp. 1–18.

4. Bohak G., Conceptualizing Demons in Late Antique Judaism, in Demons and Illness…, pp. 111–133.

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Information: The Polish Journal of the Arts and Culture. New Series, 2017, 6 (2/2017), pp. 133 - 140

Article type: Original article

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What could a Student of Medicine learn from a Demonologist? Some remarks on: Siam Bhayro and Catherine Rider (eds.), Demons and Illness from Antiquity to the Early-Modern Period, Brill, 2017, 425 pages

Polish:
What could a Student of Medicine learn from a Demonologist? Some remarks on: Siam Bhayro and Catherine Rider (eds.), Demons and Illness from Antiquity to the Early-Modern Period, Brill, 2017, 425 pages

Authors

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1555-5952

Wojciech Kosior
Centre for Comparative Studies of Civilisations of the Jagiellonian University, Grodzka 52 Street, 31-044 Krakow
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1555-5952 Orcid
All publications →

Centre for Comparative Studies of Civilisations of the Jagiellonian University, Grodzka 52 Street, 31-044 Krakow

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