This article examines a series of messages concerning politics and geography that the religious order of the Vallombrosans embedded within a series of exorcism manuscripts and addressed to Lorenzo de’ Medici in the late fifteenth century. The Vallombrosans crafted their manuscripts to negotiate a host of troubles: schism over reform, friction with Lorenzo, diminishing social status, increased marginality, competition with rival religious orders, new definitions of orthodoxy, and alternate forms of religious devotion. I frame Vallombrosan troubles and their turn to exorcism as symptomatic of the increased predominance of Mendicant Observants over older orders, and link this shift to a newly active and politicized demonology.

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十五世纪佛罗伦萨的驱魔与宗教政治

本文研究了一系列有关政治和地理的信息，这些信息是瓦隆布罗萨人的宗教秩序嵌入到一系列驱魔手稿中，并在 15 世纪后期寄给洛伦佐·德·美第奇 (Lorenzo de' Medici) 的。瓦隆布罗萨人精心制作手稿以解决一系列麻烦：改革分裂、与洛伦佐的摩擦、社会地位下降、边缘化增加、与敌对宗教秩序的竞争、正统观念的新定义以及宗教奉献的替代形式。我将瓦隆布罗桑的麻烦和他们转向驱魔视为修道士观察者对旧秩序的优势增加的症状，并将这种转变与一种新的活跃和政治化的恶魔学联系起来。