Witchcraft, demonology, and confession in early modern France / Virginia Krause.
"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 prosecutori...
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Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Cambridge University Press,
2015.
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Physical Description: | xi, 191 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Format: | Book |
Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 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.