Bewitched & Bedeviled
Using ideas derived from cognitive science, Kirsten C. Uszkalo constructs a framework which moves through the stages of possession and exorcism to describe how the social, religious, and medical were internalized to create the vivid and vexed cognitive, physical, and cultural manifestations of demon possession in early modern England.
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Witches at Congress
Kirsten C. Uszkalo, lead of the WEME project, has recently returned from the 2011 Congress in Fredricton, New Brunswick, where she presented several of the new findings of the WEME project at the SDH/SEMI conference, to a very very positive crowd. Congress was a busy time for the other projects affiliated with WEME. Uszkalo presented at the CSRS conference, speaking on the medicalizaion of maleficium, part of the ongoing investigation into the role of physicians in witchcraft cases done as part of the WEME project.
