2. Disease and Healing in a Changing World. “Medical” Vocabulary and Exorcism in the Vetus Latina Luke

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Introduction 1
4. 1. Demons and Disease 15
5. 2. Disease and Healing in a Changing World. “Medical” Vocabulary and Exorcism in the Vetus Latina Luke 41
6. 3. On Demons in Early Martyrology 61
7. 4. Demons of the Underworld in the Christian Literature of Late Antiquity 81
8. 5. Demons in Early Latin Hagiography 95
9. 6. Hilarion and the Bactrian Camel. Demons and Genre in Jerome’s Life of Hilarion 119
10. 7. The Ambiguity of the Devil. A Discourse-Linguistic Reading of Sulpicius Severus’ Vita Martini 21 and 24 135
11. 8. Demonic Speech in Hagiography and Hymnography 151
12. Demons: An Epilogue 167
13. About the Authors 175