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La sorcière

the witch of the middle ages.

Also known as La Sorcière: The Witch of the Middle Ages; La sorcière; the witch of the middle ages

by Jules Michelet, John Davis Batchelder Collection DLC, Lionel Lionel James n 79077380 Trotter & Lionel Lionel James Trotter (Translator)

  • First published:
  • 19th century
  • Languages: English, French, German
  • Content type: Primary source
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"La Sorcière: The Witch of the Middle Ages" by Jules Michelet is a history book published in 1862. Michelet portrays medieval witchcraft as an act of popular rebellion against feudalism and the Catholic Church, depicting secret religions and Witches' Sabbaths organized by oppressed peasants and women. The first part imaginatively reconstructs the lives of medieval witches, while the second recounts actual witch trials across Europe. Though largely inaccurate, it stands as one of the first sympathetic histories of witchcraft. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

Provenance

Why this book is in the catalog

Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Astrology, Demonology, angelology, and possession, Mythology, folklore, and sacred legends, Prophecy, oracles, and revelation, Ritual magic and grimoires, and Witchcraft and folk magic.

  • Ritual magic and grimoires

    Controlled discovery queries from bavarian-state-library and gallica matched “Magie”, “magie”, and “Zauberei”. Retained metadata contains “Magie” in the subject metadata.

    • “Magie”· via Bavarian State Library Digital Collections
    • “Zauberei”· via Bavarian State Library Digital Collections
    • “magie”· via Gallica — Bibliothèque nationale de France
    • “Magie”· in subject
  • Witchcraft and folk magic

    Controlled discovery queries from gallica, internet-archive, openlibrary-historical, and project-gutenberg matched “sorcellerie”, “Witchcraft”, and “witchcraft”. Retained metadata contains “Witchcraft” in the description, “witches” in the description, “sorcellerie” in the subject metadata, and 1 additional metadata match(es).

    • “sorcellerie”· via Gallica — Bibliothèque nationale de France
    • “Witchcraft”· via Internet Archive
    • “Witchcraft”· via Open Library
    • “witchcraft”· via Project Gutenberg
    • “Witchcraft”· in description
    • “witches”· in description
  • Astrology

    Controlled discovery queries from bavarian-state-library matched “Astrologie”.

    • “Astrologie”· via Bavarian State Library Digital Collections
  • Demonology, angelology, and possession

    Controlled discovery queries from gallica, internet-archive, openlibrary-historical, and project-gutenberg matched “Demonology”, “exorcisme”, and “satanism”. Retained metadata contains “Demonology” in the subject metadata, “exorcisme” in the subject metadata, and “Satanism” in the subject metadata.

    • “exorcisme”· via Gallica — Bibliothèque nationale de France
    • “Demonology”· via Internet Archive
    • “Demonology”· via Open Library
    • “satanism”· via Project Gutenberg
    • “Demonology”· in subject
    • “exorcisme”· in subject
  • Prophecy, oracles, and revelation

    Controlled discovery queries from bavarian-state-library matched “Weissagungen”.

    • “Weissagungen”· via Bavarian State Library Digital Collections
  • Mythology, folklore, and sacred legends

    Controlled discovery queries from project-gutenberg matched “folklore”, “mythology”, and “superstition”. Retained metadata contains “Superstition” in the subject metadata.

    • “folklore”· via Project Gutenberg
    • “mythology”· via Project Gutenberg
    • “superstition”· via Project Gutenberg
    • “Superstition”· in subject

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Editions

13 editions cataloged here.

La Sorcière

Bavarian State Library digitized rare-book edition

Digitized image count: 494; Extent: XXIV, 460 S.; Shelfmark: Phys.m. 170 s

1862Jung-Treuttel; Leipzig : Jung-TreuttelFrench—Public iiif reader

La sorcière

Nouvelle édition

————Public download

La sorcière; éd. originale publiée avec notes et variantes par Lucien Refort

HathiTrust catalog record

1952———Search-only preview

Subjects

16 subject headings

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  • bpt6k57265106
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Cataloging notes

  • B3Kat identifier: BV020455768
  • Bavarian State Library shelfmark: Phys.m. 170 s
  • Contributing institution: Boston College
  • Contributing institution: National Library of Naples
  • Contributing institution: Robarts - University of Toronto
  • Contributing institution: The Centre for 19th Century French Studies - University of Toronto
  • Contributing institution: The Library of Congress
  • Contributing institution: University of California Libraries
  • Contributing institution: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
  • Contributing institution: Wellcome Library
  • Digitization license: https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-NC/1.0/
  • Digitization sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries
  • Digitization sponsor: Google
  • Digitization sponsor: msn
  • Digitization sponsor: MSN
  • Digitization sponsor: The Library of Congress
  • Digitization sponsor: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
  • Digitization sponsor: University of Ottawa
  • Digitization sponsor: Wellcome Library
  • Discovery required Internet Archive search metadata to report a PDF format; the exact direct-file URL is added only after the item's file listing confirms an unrestricted PDF filename.
  • Holding institution or provenance: München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
  • Internet Archive institutional collection: americana
  • Internet Archive institutional collection: europeanlibraries
  • Internet Archive institutional collection: europeanlibraries; medicalheritagelibrary; wellcomelibrary
  • Internet Archive institutional collection: toronto
  • Open Library reports 13 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
  • Open Library reports 3 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
  • Original print publication date and source edition are absent from Project Gutenberg metadata.
  • Publication place: Leipzig
  • Scanner: google
  • Scanner: iala8
  • Scanner: illi2
  • Scanner: scribe10.capitolhill.archive.org
  • Scanner: scribe10.toronto.archive.org
  • Scanner: scribe2.euston.archive.org
  • Scanner: scribe22.toronto.archive.org
  • Scanner: scribe3.boston.archive.org
  • Source-reported rights: <a href="http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/" rel="ugc nofollow">This work is available under the Creative Commons, Public Domain Mark</a>
  • Source-reported rights: This work is available under the Creative Commons, Public Domain Mark
  • The OPDS updated timestamp describes the digital catalog record, not the original publication date.
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