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Katajala-Peltomanaa, Sari, "A Good Wife? Demonic Possession and Discourses of Gender in Late Medieval Culture", dins: Muravyeva, Mariaana G. - Toivo, Raisa Maria (eds.), Gender in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe, Nova York, Routledge, 2013, pp. 73-83.
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- Around the year 1300, Beatrix, the wife of Leo de Vestia of the city of Nice, became mad-showing all the classical signs of demonic possession. She blasphemed saints and God and insulted and physically attacked her neighbors; eventually she needed to be tied down. The difference to her previous behavior was striking. Before her affl iction, she was described as being ‘good and discrete, staying with her husband in her house like a good woman; living honestly and peacefully and being approved by her neighbors for her goodness.' 1 This case, with three depositions, was recorded in the canonization process of Saint Louis of Toulouse. Thus, the episode had a happy ending: Beatrix was vowed to Saint Louis and miraculously cured by him. Afterward, her conduct was once again mature and discrete, cum maturitate et discrecione agebat , in her husband's estimation.
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