Witchcraft, Demonology, and Confession in Early Modern France

Informationen zum Autor 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 of Hull). Krause currently serves on the external editorial committee of French Forum. She is the author of Idle Pursuits: Literature and 'Oisiveté' in the French Renaissance and is currently finishing a critical edition of Jean Bodin's De la démonomanie des sorciers (coedited with Christian Martin and Eric MacPhail). Klappentext Situated at the crossroads of history and literary studies, this book examines confession's place at the heart of French demonology.Situated at the crossroads of history and literary studies, this book examines confession's place at the heart of French demonology. Drawing on evidence from published treatises, the writings of skeptics such as Montaigne, and the documents from a witchcraft trial, Virginia Krause shows how demonologists erected their science of demons. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. From the witch's mouth; 2. Dark truth: demonology's auricular regime; 3. Dismantling demonology's confessional; 4. Becoming a witch; Conclusion: lessons from the demonological night.

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• Authors: Virginia Krause, Virginia (Brown University Krause, Krause Virginia
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.01.2015
• EAN: 9781107074408
• ISBN: 978-1-107-07440-8
• No. of pages: 204
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; France, European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, Religion & beliefs, c 1500 onwards to present day, History of Religion, Literature & literary studies, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, Western philosophy: Medieval & Renaissance, c 500 to c 1600