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Witchcraft, Demonology, and Confession in Early Modern France
Virginia Krause
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hardcover. Situated at the crossroads of history and literary studies, this book examines confession's place at the heart of French demonology. Num Pages: 204 pages, 8 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JB; 3JD; HBJD; HBLH; HRAX. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 238 x 160 x 25. Weight in Grams: 480.
Denounced by neighbors and scrutinized by demonologists, the early modern French witch also confessed, self-identified as a witch and as the author of horrific deeds. What led her to this point? Despair, solitude, perhaps even physical pain, but most decisively, demonology's two-pronged prosecutorial and truth-seeking confessional apparatus. This book examines the systematic and well-oiled machinery that served to extract, interpret, and disseminate witches' confessions in early modern France. For the demonologist, confession was the only way to find out the truth about the clandestine activities of witches. For the witch, however, trial confessions opened new horizons of selfhood. In this ... Read more
Denounced by neighbors and scrutinized by demonologists, the early modern French witch also confessed, self-identified as a witch and as the author of horrific deeds. What led her to this point? Despair, solitude, perhaps even physical pain, but most decisively, demonology's two-pronged prosecutorial and truth-seeking confessional apparatus. This book examines the systematic and well-oiled machinery that served to extract, interpret, and disseminate witches' confessions in early modern France. For the demonologist, confession was the only way to find out the truth about the clandestine activities of witches. For the witch, however, trial confessions opened new horizons of selfhood. In this ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
204
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781107074408
SKU
V9781107074408
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About Virginia Krause
Virginia Krause is Associate Professor of French Studies at Brown University. She received a research fellowship from the Newberry Library in 1999 and has been invited to speak at universities in the United States (Harvard, Cornell, University of Virginia, Dartmouth, University of Indiana, and Brandeis University), France (Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines and Université de Toulouse), and the United Kingdom (University ... Read more
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