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Informationen zum Autor At the time of his death in 1986, Michel de Certeau was a director of studies at the Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris. Of his many books, The Practice of Everyday Life, The Writing of History, and Heterologies: Discourse on the Other are available in English translation. Klappentext List of IllustrationsForeword by Stephen GreenblattTranslator's AcknowledgmentsHistory Is Never Sure1. How a Possession is Born2. The Magic Circle3. The Discourse of Possession4. The Accused: Urbain Grandier5. Politics in Loudun: Laubardemont6. Beginning the Judicial Inquiry7. The Theater of the Possessed8. The Medical Eye9. A Teratology of TruthI. The ImaginationII. The Liar10. The Judgment of the Sorcerer11. The Execution: Legend and History12. After Death, Literature13. The Time of Spirituality: Father Surin14. The Triumph of Jeanne des AngesFigures of the OtherPrimary Sources and BibliographyNotes Index Zusammenfassung Interweaving substantial excerpts from primary historical documents with commentary! this text 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.
