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The crime of crimes : demonology and politics in France, 1560-1620 / Jonathan L. Pearl.
- Title
- The crime of crimes : demonology and politics in France, 1560-1620 / Jonathan L. Pearl.
- Author
- Pearl, Jonathan L.
- Publication
- Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, c1999.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | BF1517.F5 P43 1998 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- viii, 181 p.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "In France, dozens of books, pamphlets and tracts, depicting witchcraft as the most horrible of crimes, were published and widely distributed." "Yet, in his new book, The Crime of Crimes: Demonology and Politics in France, 1560-1620, Jonathan Pearl shows that France carried out relatively few executions for witchcraft. Through careful research he shows that a zealous Catholic faction identified the Protestant rebels as traitors and heretics in league with the devil and clamoured for the political and legal establishment to exterminate these enemies of humanity. But the courts were dominated by moderate Catholics whose political views were in sharp contrast to those of the zealots and, as a result, the demonologists failed to ignite a major witch-craze in France."--BOOK JACKET.
- Uniform Title
- Project Muse UPCC books
- Subject
- 1500-1699
- 1500-talet
- 1600-talet
- Demonology > France > History > 16th century
- Demonology > France > History > 17th century
- Demonology > France > History > 16th century > Sources
- Demonology > France > History > 17th century > Sources
- Demonology > Political aspects > History > France > 16th century
- Demonology > Political aspects > History > France > 17th century
- Witchcraft > France > History > 16th century
- Witchcraft > France > History > 17th century
- Demonologie > France > Histoire > 17e siecle
- Demonologie > France > Histoire > 16e siecle
- Demonologie > Aspect politique > Histoire > France > 17e siecle
- Demonologie > Aspect politique > Histoire > France > 16e siecle
- Genre/Form
- History
- Sources
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Early modern demonologists and modern historians -- Witchcraft, politics and law -- Politics and demonic possession -- Jesuits, Maldonat and the development of French demonology -- Politics, morality and demonology -- Three adversaries of political demonology -- Pierre de Lancre.
- ISBN
- 0889202966
- LCCN
- cn^98930430^
- OCLC
- 39051869
- SCSB-11929645
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library