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Case of Witchcraft

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Author : Robert Rapley
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773567119
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book Case of Witchcraft written by Robert Rapley and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1998-08-24 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a Catholic priest, Grandier was an influential figure in the Loudun community and local government. A brilliant speaker, he was popular with his parishioners. But he had enemies, including Cardinal Richelieu and Louis XIII, who was trying to wrest political autonomy from local governors and centralize power in Paris. Grandier's support of the governor of Loudun meant that he was seen as an enemy of the crown. In addition, the debonair priest's romantic intrigues brought him into conflict with some of the town's most influential power brokers. When a nearby convent of Ursuline nuns began experiencing strange visions and hallucinations, Grandier's enemies seized the opportunity to orchestrate his downfall. These mass possessions, which spread through the convent despite attempts at exorcism, were regarded as witchcraft and Grandier was accused of having caused them. Condemned by Richelieu and the king, Grandier was tortured and burned at the stake for his alleged crimes. He maintained his innocence to the end. This tale of conspiracy, corruption, and mass hysteria provides a fascinating exploration of human behaviour and community dynamics.

Urbain Grandier

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Author : Александр Дюма
Publisher : Litres
ISBN 13 : 5040833504
Total Pages : 143 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (48 download)

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Download or read book Urbain Grandier written by Александр Дюма and published by Litres. This book was released on 2021-12-02 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Urbain Grandier

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Author : Alexandre Dumas
Publisher : Lindhardt og Ringhof
ISBN 13 : 8726672111
Total Pages : 10 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (266 download)

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Download or read book Urbain Grandier written by Alexandre Dumas and published by Lindhardt og Ringhof. This book was released on 2021-07-05 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Accused of sorcery, a man of God is put on trial for his life. But the dark forces leading his persecution are far from supernatural. In "Urbain Grandier", Alexandre Dumas recounts one of France’s most infamous witchcraft trials. The story begins in the early 1600s, in the parish of Loudon. A convent of nuns claim demonic possession, and the finger of blame is pointed at local priest Father Grandier. What follows is a horror story of exorcisms, torture, and execution. Dumas offers a gripping account of the trial, but also shows us the powerful figures who orchestrated the plot. They include Cardinal Richelieu, who Dumas later made the lead villain of his classic novel "The Three Musketeers". Alexandre Dumas (1802 - 1870) was a hugely popular 19th century French writer. Born of mixed French and Haitian heritage, Dumas first rose to prominence in Paris as a playwright, but later gained international fame with his historical fiction. Often co-authored with other writers, these stories wove together swashbuckling adventure, romance, and real events from France’s past. Among the best known are "The Three Musketeers", and its sequels "Twenty Years After", and "Le Vicomte de Bragelonne: Ten Years Later". Set across four decades, this trilogy follows the rise of the dashing D’Artagnan—from hot-headed soldier to trusted captain under Louis XIV. Dumas’ other novels include "The Count of Monte Cristo" and "The Black Tulip". His works have been adapted into more than 200 movies, including The Man in the Iron Mask starring Leonardo DiCaprio.

Urbain Grandier; Celebrated Crimes

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Author : Alexandre Dumas Père
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3387021607
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (87 download)

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Download or read book Urbain Grandier; Celebrated Crimes written by Alexandre Dumas Père and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-09-03 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.

Urbain Grandier and the Devils of Loudon

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Author : Alexandre Dumas
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 1434457737
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (344 download)

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Download or read book Urbain Grandier and the Devils of Loudon written by Alexandre Dumas and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2009-12-01 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in 1634 France, this play tells the story of demonic possession and religious prosecution. Father Urbain Grandier is accused of witchcraft and promiscuous behavior against the nuns. Grandier appears to have genuine psychic powers, but he is innocent of his other supposed crimes. Ultimately, he's brought to trial. One of Dumas's most intense psychodramas.

The Crimes of Urbain Grandier, and Others

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Author : Alexandre Dumas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Crimes of Urbain Grandier, and Others written by Alexandre Dumas and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Karl Ludwig Sand. Urbain Grandier. Nisida

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Author : Alexandre Dumas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book Karl Ludwig Sand. Urbain Grandier. Nisida written by Alexandre Dumas and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Possession at Loudun

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Author : Michel de Certeau
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226100359
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book The Possession at Loudun written by Michel de Certeau and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2000-08 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is August 18, 1634. Father Urbain Grandier, convicted of sorcery that led to the demonic possession of the Ursuline nuns of provincial Loudun in France, confesses his sins on the porch of the church of Saint-Pierre, then perishes in flames lit by his own exorcists. A dramatic tale that has inspired many artistic retellings, including a novel by Aldous Huxley and an incendiary film by Ken Russell, the story of the possession at Loudun here receives a compelling analysis from the renowned Jesuit historian Michel de Certeau. Interweaving substantial excerpts from primary historical documents with fascinating commentary, de Certeau shows how the plague of sorceries and possessions in France that climaxed in the events at Loudun both revealed the deepest fears of a society in traumatic flux and accelerated its transformation. In this tour de force of psychological history, de Certeau brings to vivid life a people torn between the decline of centralized religious authority and the rise of science and reason, wracked by violent anxiety over what or whom to believe. At the time of his death in 1986, Michel de Certeau was a director of studies at the école des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris. He was author of eighteen books in French, three of which have appeared in English translation as The Practice of Everyday Life,The Writing of History, and The Mystic Fable, Volume 1, the last of which is published by The University of Chicago Press. "Brilliant and innovative. . . . The Possession at Loudun is [de Certeau's] most accessible book and one of his most wonderful."—Stephen Greenblatt (from the Foreword)

The Possession at Loudun

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Author : Michel de Certeau
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226100340
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book The Possession at Loudun written by Michel de Certeau and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2000-08 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is August 18, 1634. Father Urbain Grandier, convicted of sorcery that led to the demonic possession of the Ursuline nuns of provincial Loudun in France, confesses his sins on the porch of the church of Saint-Pierre, then perishes in flames lit by his own exorcists. A dramatic tale that has inspired many artistic retellings, including a novel by Aldous Huxley and an incendiary film by Ken Russell, the story of the possession at Loudun here receives a compelling analysis from the renowned Jesuit historian Michel de Certeau. Interweaving substantial excerpts from primary historical documents with fascinating commentary, de Certeau shows how the plague of sorceries and possessions in France that climaxed in the events at Loudun both revealed the deepest fears of a society in traumatic flux and accelerated its transformation. In this tour de force of psychological history, de Certeau brings to vivid life a people torn between the decline of centralized religious authority and the rise of science and reason, wracked by violent anxiety over what or whom to believe. At the time of his death in 1986, Michel de Certeau was a director of studies at the école des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris. He was author of eighteen books in French, three of which have appeared in English translation as The Practice of Everyday Life,The Writing of History, and The Mystic Fable, Volume 1, the last of which is published by The University of Chicago Press. "Brilliant and innovative. . . . The Possession at Loudun is [de Certeau's] most accessible book and one of his most wonderful."—Stephen Greenblatt (from the Foreword)

The Devils of Loudun

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Author : Aldous Huxley
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0099477769
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (994 download)

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Download or read book The Devils of Loudun written by Aldous Huxley and published by Random House. This book was released on 2005 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1643: In one of history’s most sensational cases of mass possession and sexual hysteria, Urbain Grandier, a handsome seducer of women, and priest of the parish of Loudon, was found guilty of being in league with the devil and burnt at the stake. Huxley gives a vivid account of this bizarre tale of religious and sexual obsession.

Celebrated Crimes

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Author : Alexandre Dumas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book Celebrated Crimes written by Alexandre Dumas and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The History of the Devils of Loudun

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Author : Des Niau
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book The History of the Devils of Loudun written by Des Niau and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Case of Witchcraft

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Author : Robert Rapley
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 9780773523128
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (231 download)

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Download or read book A Case of Witchcraft written by Robert Rapley and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2001 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work is the story of passion and intrigue, conspiracy, corruption and mass hystria in Loudun, France in the 17th century. It tells of Urbain Grandier, a priest who was accused and found guilty of sorcery.

Urbain Grandier

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Author : Alexandre Dumas
Publisher : IndyPublish.com
ISBN 13 : 9781414242705
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (427 download)

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Download or read book Urbain Grandier written by Alexandre Dumas and published by IndyPublish.com. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Demons!

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Author : Alexandre Dumas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781365931888
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book Demons! written by Alexandre Dumas and published by . This book was released on 2023-01-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE DEVILS (1971) Ken Russell's horrifying film of the possession and resultant exorcism of the "Loudun Nuns," (based upon the book THE DEVILS OF LOUDON by Aldous Huxley), scourged the eyes of audiences in the 1970s, with its harsh, brutal, and sickening depiction of blasphemous torture, hideous pain, possession, and wild, orgiastic rites to fallen spirits. Now here is the classic full account of this bizarre, startling, and tragic chapter in the history of possession and exorcism, the annals of primitive witch hysteria: the exorcism of the Loudun Nuns, and the subsequent trial and hideous execution, by burning, of Father Urbain Grandier, (claimed by some to have entered into a pact with Satan to torment and afflict the sisters of the afflicted Ursuline order). Was Urbain Grandier an emissary of Satan? Or was he simply a man caught up in the crosshairs of his vindictive enemies and powerful forces, those willing to send a man to his death for purely political reasons? What of the hunchbacked Sister Jeanne? Was she really the focus of a black, demonic incubus? Or was she simply a disturbed, repressed woman, one whose life of piety, self-abnegation, penance, and sacrifice, lead her to the brink of madness? To read this chilling account is to step back through a doorway in time, gaining an insight into the hysteria of the witchcraft hysteria of the old world, and what it might tell us about our own contemporary society. Published by Zem Books

The Republic

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1304 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Republic written by and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 1304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes notes and announcements of the Order of United Americans.

Chronique Médicale

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 850 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Chronique Médicale written by and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 850 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: