Author: Mita Choudhury
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271077026
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
This microhistory investigates the famous and scandalous 1731 trial in which Catherine Cadière, a young woman in the south of France, accused her Jesuit confessor, Jean-Baptiste Girard, of seduction, heresy, abortion, and bewitchment. Generally considered to be the last witchcraft trial in early modern France, the Cadière affair was central to the volatile politics of 1730s France, a time when magistrates and lawyers were seeking to contain clerical power. Mita Choudhury’s examination of the trial sheds light on two important phenomena with broad historical implications: the questioning of traditional authority and the growing disquiet about the role of the sacred and divine in French society. Both contributed to the French people’s ever-increasing disenchantment with the church and the king. Choudhury builds her story through an extensive examination of archival material, including trial records, pamphlets, periodicals, and unpublished correspondence from witnesses. The Wanton Jesuit and the Wayward Saint offers new insights into how the eighteenth-century public interpreted the accusations and why the case consumed the public for years, developing from a local sex scandal to a referendum on religious authority and its place in French society and politics.
The Wanton Jesuit and the Wayward Saint
Author: Mita Choudhury
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271077026
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
This microhistory investigates the famous and scandalous 1731 trial in which Catherine Cadière, a young woman in the south of France, accused her Jesuit confessor, Jean-Baptiste Girard, of seduction, heresy, abortion, and bewitchment. Generally considered to be the last witchcraft trial in early modern France, the Cadière affair was central to the volatile politics of 1730s France, a time when magistrates and lawyers were seeking to contain clerical power. Mita Choudhury’s examination of the trial sheds light on two important phenomena with broad historical implications: the questioning of traditional authority and the growing disquiet about the role of the sacred and divine in French society. Both contributed to the French people’s ever-increasing disenchantment with the church and the king. Choudhury builds her story through an extensive examination of archival material, including trial records, pamphlets, periodicals, and unpublished correspondence from witnesses. The Wanton Jesuit and the Wayward Saint offers new insights into how the eighteenth-century public interpreted the accusations and why the case consumed the public for years, developing from a local sex scandal to a referendum on religious authority and its place in French society and politics.
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271077026
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
This microhistory investigates the famous and scandalous 1731 trial in which Catherine Cadière, a young woman in the south of France, accused her Jesuit confessor, Jean-Baptiste Girard, of seduction, heresy, abortion, and bewitchment. Generally considered to be the last witchcraft trial in early modern France, the Cadière affair was central to the volatile politics of 1730s France, a time when magistrates and lawyers were seeking to contain clerical power. Mita Choudhury’s examination of the trial sheds light on two important phenomena with broad historical implications: the questioning of traditional authority and the growing disquiet about the role of the sacred and divine in French society. Both contributed to the French people’s ever-increasing disenchantment with the church and the king. Choudhury builds her story through an extensive examination of archival material, including trial records, pamphlets, periodicals, and unpublished correspondence from witnesses. The Wanton Jesuit and the Wayward Saint offers new insights into how the eighteenth-century public interpreted the accusations and why the case consumed the public for years, developing from a local sex scandal to a referendum on religious authority and its place in French society and politics.
Kritische Gesamtausgabe
Author: Konrad Cramer
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 9783110182927
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 932
Book Description
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 9783110182927
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 932
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Catalogue of the Library of Congress
Author: Library of Congress
Publisher:
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 618
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Publisher:
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 618
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Catalog of that Portion of John Bigelow's Library Not Represented by Cards in the Library of Congress Author Catalog
Author: Union University (Schenectady, N.Y.). Library
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Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 234
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Publisher:
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Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 234
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Catalogue of Books Added to the Library of Congress
Author: Library of Congress. Catalog, 1868
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Languages : en
Pages : 610
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 610
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The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Library of Congress
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Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 712
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Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 712
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Catalogue of books added to the Library of Congress
Author: Washington D.C., libr. of Congress
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Languages : en
Pages : 622
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 622
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Catalogue of Books Added to the Library of Congress Being the Year 1871
Author: Anonymous
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3382193167
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 606
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1872. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3382193167
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 606
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1872. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
Parallele de la doctrine des payens, avec celle des Jesuites, et de la Constitution du Pape Clement XI. qui commence par ces mots: Unigenitus Dei Filius (etc.)
Catalogue of Books Added to the Library of Congress, from Dec. 1, ... to Dec. 1, ...
Author: Library of Congress
Publisher:
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 616
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 616
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