Possession at Loudun

Name: Possession at Loudun
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ISBN: 9780226100357

ISBN-10: 0226100359

ISBN-13: 9780226100357

Edition: 2000 (Reprint)

Authors: Michel de Certeau, Michael B. Smith

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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compelling analysis from the renowned Jesuit historian Michel de Certeau.Interweaving substantial excerpts from primary historical documents with fascinating commentary, de Certeau shows how the plague of sorceries and possessions in France…

Book details

List price: $27.50
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 8/1/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 264
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.056
Language: English

The lateMichel de Certeauwas Directeur d'Etudes at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris and Visiting Professor of French and Comparative Literature at University of California, San Diego.



List of Illustrations


Foreword



Translator's Acknowledgments


History Is Never Sure



How a Possession Is Born



The Magic Circle



The Discourse of Possession



The Accused: Urbain Grandier



Politics in Loudun: Laubardemont



Beginning the Judicial Inquiry



The Theater of the Possessed



The Medical Eye



A Teratology of Truth



The Imagination



The Liar



The Judgment of the Sorcerer



The Execution: Legend and History



After Death, Literature



The Time of Spirituality: Father Surin



The Triumph of Jeanne des Anges


Figures of the Other


Primary Sources and Bibliography


Notes


Index