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It is August 18, 1634. Father Urbain Grandier, convicted of sorcery that led to the demonic possession of the Ursuline nuns of provincial Loudun in France, confesses his sins on the porch of the church of Saint-Pierre, then perishes in flames lit by his own exorcists. A dramatic tale that has inspired many artistic retellings, including a novel by Aldous Huxley and an incendiary film by Ken Russell, the story of the possession at Loudun here receives a compelling analysis from the renowned Jesuit historian Michel de Certeau. Interweaving substantial excerpts from primary historical documents with fascinating commentary, de Certeau shows how the plague of sorceries and possessions in France that climaxed in the events at Loudun both revealed the deepest fears of a society in traumatic flux and accelerated its transformation. In this tour de force of psychological history, de Certeau brings to vivid life a people torn between the decline of centralized religious authority and the rise of science and reason, wracked by violent anxiety over what or whom to believe. At the time of his death in 1986, Michel de Certeau was a director of studies at the école des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris. He was author of eighteen books in French, three of which have appeared in English translation as The Practice of Everyday Life,The Writing of History, and The Mystic Fable, Volume 1, the last of which is published by The University of Chicago Press. "Brilliant and innovative. . . . The Possession at Loudun is [de Certeau's] most accessible book and one of his most wonderful."--Stephen Greenblatt (from the Foreword)… (mais)
Informação do Conhecimento Comum em Francês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
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Informação do Conhecimento Comum em Francês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
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Informação do Conhecimento Comum em Francês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
L’HISTOIRE N’EST JAMAIS SÛRE
D’habitude, l’étrange circule discrètement sous nos rues. Mais il suffit d’une crise pour que, de toutes parts, comme enflé par la crue, il remonte du sous-sol, soulève les couvercles qui fermaient les égouts et envahisse les caves, puis les villes. [...]
Note sur la présente édition (Edition Folio Histoire, Gallimard, 2005)
Cet ouvrage, paru en 1970 dans la collection «Archives», dirigée par Pierre Nora et Jacques Revel, pour les éditions Julliard, a été ensuite réimprimé (1980, 1990) dans la même collection pour les éditions Gallimard et Julliard avec quelques corrections de l’auteur. [...]
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Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
Bound to a historical moment - that is, to the passage from religious criteria to political ones, from a cosmological and celestial anthropology to a scientific organization of natural objects ordered by the scrutiny of man - the possession of Loudun opens out also onto the strangeness of history, the reflexes triggered by its alterations, and the question that arises the moment there loom before us - different from the devilries of former times but no less troubling - the new social figures of the other.
It is August 18, 1634. Father Urbain Grandier, convicted of sorcery that led to the demonic possession of the Ursuline nuns of provincial Loudun in France, confesses his sins on the porch of the church of Saint-Pierre, then perishes in flames lit by his own exorcists. A dramatic tale that has inspired many artistic retellings, including a novel by Aldous Huxley and an incendiary film by Ken Russell, the story of the possession at Loudun here receives a compelling analysis from the renowned Jesuit historian Michel de Certeau. Interweaving substantial excerpts from primary historical documents with fascinating commentary, de Certeau shows how the plague of sorceries and possessions in France that climaxed in the events at Loudun both revealed the deepest fears of a society in traumatic flux and accelerated its transformation. In this tour de force of psychological history, de Certeau brings to vivid life a people torn between the decline of centralized religious authority and the rise of science and reason, wracked by violent anxiety over what or whom to believe. At the time of his death in 1986, Michel de Certeau was a director of studies at the école des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris. He was author of eighteen books in French, three of which have appeared in English translation as The Practice of Everyday Life,The Writing of History, and The Mystic Fable, Volume 1, the last of which is published by The University of Chicago Press. "Brilliant and innovative. . . . The Possession at Loudun is [de Certeau's] most accessible book and one of his most wonderful."--Stephen Greenblatt (from the Foreword)
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