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The Strange Case Of Ermine De Reims Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski
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The Strange Case Of Ermine De Reims
Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski
In 1395, a poor and illiterate French woman began to experience nightly visions of devils and angels. Was she a saint, a witch, an impostor, or a madwoman? Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski looks for answers in the historical and theological context of this troubled woman's life and times.
Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.; In 1384, a poor and illiterate peasant woman called Ermine moved to the city of Reims with her elderly husband. Her era was troubled by war, plague, and papal schism within the Catholic Church, and Ermine could easily have slipped unobserved through the cracks of history. After her relocation and the loss of her husband, however, things took a remarkable but frightening turn. For the last ten months of her life, Ermine was tormented by nightly visions of angels and demons. In her nocturnal terrors, she was attacked by animals, beaten and kidnapped by devils in disguise, and exposed to carnal spectacles;on other nights, she was blessed by saints, even visited by the Virgin Mary. Her strange case was confessed to and recorded by an Augustinian friar. Was Ermine a saint in the making, an impostor, an incipient witch, or a madwoman?.
Contributor Bio: Blumenfeld-Kosinski, Renate Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski is Professor of French at the University of Pittsburgh. Her books include Not of Woman Born: Representations of Caesarean Birth in Medieval and Renaissance Culture (1990) and Reading Myth: Classical Mythology and Its Interpretations in Medieval French Literature (1997).
| Media | Books Book |
| Released | May 28, 2015 |
| ISBN13 | 9780812247152 |
| Publishers | University of Pennsylvania Press |
| Pages | 248 |
| Dimensions | 268 × 165 × 25 mm · 566 g |
| Series Editor | Karras, Ruth Mazo |
