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Flame into Being: Spirits, Soul, and the Physiology of Early Modern Devotion (2016)
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Sugg, R. (2016). Flame into Being: Spirits, Soul, and the Physiology of Early Modern Devotion. Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, 46(1), 141-165. https://doi.org/10.1215/10829636-3343171

In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, human physiology was mediated by the vital spirits. These fine vapors of heated blood and air not only linked body and soul, but were central to processes and ideas of generation, sight, mind-body unity, mu... Read More about Flame into Being: Spirits, Soul, and the Physiology of Early Modern Devotion.