Author: British MuseumPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 704
Book Description
Catalogue of Printed Books
Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Associations, institutions, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 584
Book Description
British Museum Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: Biographie Universelle Classique. Biographie Universelle, Ou Dictionnaire Historique, Etc
Author: General catalogue of printed books
Author: British museum. Dept. of printed booksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Biographie Universelle, Ancienne Et Moderne
Author: Biographie Universelle, Ancienne Et Moderne
Author: La Grande Encyclopédie
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries, French
Languages : fr
Pages :
Book Description
The British Museum Catalogue of Printed Books, 1881-1900: P to Periodical
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1180
Book Description
The Wanton Jesuit and the Wayward Saint
Author: Mita ChoudhuryPublisher: 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her story through an extensive examination of archival material, including trial records, pamphlets, periodicals, and unpublished correspondence from witnesses.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.