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La grande chasse aux sorcières : histoire d'une répression (XVe-XVIIIe siècle)
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ISBN: 9782200629854 Year: 2022 Publisher: Malakoff : Armand Colin,

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Entre les XVe et XVIIIe siècles, la chasse aux sorciers et sorcières a fait des dizaines de milliers de morts en Europe. Accusées de pacte avec le diable, de crimes abominables et de maléfices, les victimes, essentiellement des femmes, ont dû endosser la responsabilité des malheurs de toute sorte frappant individus et communautés. Expié sur les bûchers, ce crime imaginaire a été largement théorisé par les juristes et les théologiens, souvent tenaillés par l'obsession diabolique et animés par une volonté d'uniformité sociale. Mais il a d'abord été nourri des peurs et croyances collectives, des failles béantes de la nature humaine et des machineries des administrations alors en construction. Si les pouvoirs civils, prenant le relais de l'Église, ont très vite traqué les adeptes de Satan, «déviants» devenus criminels absolus, ce sont également eux qui ont progressivement éteint les feux d'une répression devenue destructrice de l'ordre social. --


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Village infernos and witches' advocates : witch-hunting in Navarre, 1608-1614
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ISBN: 0271092084 0271092092 Year: 2022 Publisher: University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press,

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"Between 1608 and 1614, thousands of witchcraft accusations were leveled against men, women, and children in the northern Spanish kingdom of Navarre. The Inquisition intervened quickly but incompetently, and the denunciations continued to accelerate. As the phenomenon spread, children began to play a crucial role. Not only were they reportedly victims of the witches' harmful magic, but hundreds of them also insisted that witches were taking them to the Devil's gatherings against their will. Presenting important archival discoveries, Lu Ann Homza restores the perspectives of illiterate, Basque-speaking individuals to the history of this shocking event. combines new readings of the Inquisitional evidence with fresh archival finds from non-Inquisitional sources, including local secular and religious courts, and from notarial and census records. Expanding our understanding of this witch hunt as well as the history of children, community norms, and legal expertise, Village Infernos and Witches' Advocates is a must-read for scholars of the Spanish Inquisition and the history of witchcraft in early modern Europe"-- "A revisionist account of the Spanish witch-hunt that took place in northern Navarre from 1608 to 1614. Combines new readings of the Inquisitional evidence with archival finds from non-Inquisitional sources, including local secular and religious courts, and from notarial and census records"--


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The witches of St Osyth : persecution, betrayal and murder in Elizabethan England
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ISBN: 1108853188 1108857787 1108859607 1108494676 Year: 2022 Publisher: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press,

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An emotive, haunting story of a community torn apart, the Essex witch accusations and trial of 1581-2 are, taken together, one of the pivotal instances of that malign and destructive wave of misogynistic persecution which periodically broke over early modern England. Yet, for all their importance in the overall study of witchcraft, the so-called witches of St Osyth have largely been overlooked by scholars. Marion Gibson now sets right that neglect. Using fresh archival sources - and investigating not just the village itself, but also its neighbouring Elizabethan hamlets and habitations - the author offers revelatory new insights into the sixteen women and one man accused of sorcery while asking wider, provocative questions about the way history is recollected and interpreted. Combining landscape detective work, a reconstruction of lost spaces and authoritative readings of crucial documents, Gibson skilfully unlocks the poignant personal histories of those denied the chance to speak for themselves.


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Village infernos and witches' advocates : witch-hunting in Navarre, 1608-1614
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ISBN: 9780271091815 0271091819 Year: 2022 Publisher: University Park, Pennsylvania The Pennsylvania State University Press

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"A revisionist account of the Spanish witch-hunt that took place in northern Navarre from 1608 to 1614. Combines new readings of the Inquisitional evidence with archival finds from non-Inquisitional sources, including local secular and religious courts, and from notarial and census records"-- "Between 1608 and 1614, thousands of witchcraft accusations were leveled against men, women, and children in the northern Spanish kingdom of Navarre. The Inquisition intervened quickly but incompetently, and the denunciations continued to accelerate. As the phenomenon spread, children began to play a crucial role. Not only were they reportedly victims of the witches' harmful magic, but hundreds of them also insisted that witches were taking them to the Devil's gatherings against their will. Presenting important archival discoveries, Lu Ann Homza restores the perspectives of illiterate, Basque-speaking individuals to the history of this shocking event. combines new readings of the Inquisitional evidence with fresh archival finds from non-Inquisitional sources, including local secular and religious courts, and from notarial and census records. Expanding our understanding of this witch hunt as well as the history of children, community norms, and legal expertise, Village Infernos and Witches' Advocates is a must-read for scholars of the Spanish Inquisition and the history of witchcraft in early modern Europe"--

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