The History Of The Devils Of Loudun Volumes I Iii
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Author | : Des Niau |
Publisher | : Good Press |
Total Pages | : 80 |
Release | : 2021-05-19 |
Genre | : Fiction |
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"The History of the Devils of Loudun, Volumes I-III" by Des Niau (translated by Edmund Goldsmid). Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
Author | : Edmund Goldsmid |
Publisher | : Read Books Ltd |
Total Pages | : 91 |
Release | : 2020-09-17 |
Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | : 152876790X |
This book contains all three volumes of Edmund Goldsmid's “The History of the Devils of Loudun”, which deals with the purported demonic possession, sexual repression, religious fanaticism, and mass hysteria that occurred in the small town of Loudun in 17th-century France. This volume concentrates on the Roman Catholic priest called Urbain Grandier and the members of a convent containing Ursuline nuns who claim to have been possessed by demons as a result of a deal made between Grandier and Satan, examining eye-witness accounts and other evidence related to the events. "The History of the Devils of Loudun” will appeal to those with an interest in occult subjects and notable historical cases related to purported occult subjects in particular. Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with the original text and artwork.
Author | : Aldous Huxley |
Publisher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 2010-05-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1409079503 |
A gripping biography by the author of Brave New World In 1634 Urbain Grandier, a handsome and dissolute priest of the parish of Loudun was tried, tortured and burnt at the stake. He had been found guilty of conspiring with the devil to seduce an entire convent of nuns. Grandier maintained his innocence to the end but four years after his death the nuns were still being subjected to exorcisms to free them from their demonic bondage. Huxley's vivid account of this bizarre tale of religious and sexual obsession transforms our understanding of the medieval world.
Author | : Michel de Certeau |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2000-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0226100359 |
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)
Author | : Thomas and John Egerton (Firm) |
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Total Pages | : 80 |
Release | : 1789 |
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Author | : Lackington, firm, booksellers, London |
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Total Pages | : 646 |
Release | : 1803 |
Genre | : Booksellers' catalogs |
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Author | : William Swan Sonnenschein |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 474 |
Release | : 1910 |
Genre | : Best books |
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Total Pages | : 56 |
Release | : 1874 |
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Author | : Andrew D. White |
Publisher | : Cosimo, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 496 |
Release | : 2010-01-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1616402741 |
The battle between science and religion in American popular life is as old as America itself. By the late 19th century, it had reached a fever pitch, culminating in the two-volume 1896 work A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom. The result of thirty years of research by historian and educator ANDREW DICKSON WHITE (1832-1918), a founder of Cornell University, this is White's attack on intellectually stifling religious dogma and his explication of the "conflict thesis" of outright warfare between science and religion. While scholars today generally see the situation as more nuanced, the conflict thesis remains a popular metaphor in the mind of the general public, and White's work continues to speak to us today. H.L. Mencken called this "one of the noblest monuments of American scholarship," and it will fascinate anyone who is troubled by the ongoing influence by religious authorities into secular science. In Volume II, White looks at the shift "from miracles to medicine," "from demonic possession to insanity," and other modern transformations of humanity's understanding of the world and ourselves.
Author | : Richard Henry Popkin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 440 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0195107683 |