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SUMMARY:Gender\, sexuality and illness in early modern exorcism - Boyd Bro
 gan (Wolfson College\, University of Cambridge)
DTSTART:20170523T164500Z
DTEND:20170523T181500Z
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CONTACT:Dr Rachel E. Holmes
DESCRIPTION:In 1585\, in the village of Denham in Buckinghamshire\, a grou
 p of undercover Catholic priests exorcised five young people who appeared 
 to be possessed by demons. What followed was remarkable for a number of re
 asons: a woman was raped with saints’ relics\, a man claimed to have a w
 omb\, and almost all of them believed themselves to be suffering from an i
 llness known as ‘suffocation of the mother’. Later a satirical book ab
 out these events exerted a strong influence on Shakespeare’s King Lear. 
 This talk will ask what the Denham exorcisms can tell us about how people 
 in this period imagined bodies and diseases to be gendered\, and about the
  relationship between demonic possession\, sexual difference and sexuality
 .
LOCATION:Gatsby Room\, Wolfson College
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