Books by Nancy Mandeville Caciola

In Afterlives, Nancy Mandeville Caciola explores this extraordinary phenomenon of the living's relationship with the dead in Europe during the five hundred years after the year 1000.

Analyzes a broad array of sources-from saints' lives to medical treatises, exorcists' manuals to miracle accounts-to find that observers came to rely on the discernment of bodies rather than seeking to distinguish between divine and demonic possession in purely spiritual terms.