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La sorcière

the witch of the middle ages.

Also known as 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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Description

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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.)

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Why this book is in the catalog

Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Demonology, angelology, and possession and Witchcraft and folk magic.

  • 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
  • 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

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Editions

Open Library reports 13 editions; 11 cataloged here.

La sorcière

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La sorcière

Internet Archive institutional pre-1900 scan

1862-01-01T00:00:00ZParis : HetzelFrench—Public digitized item

La Sorcière

Internet Archive institutional pre-1900 scan

1863-01-01T00:00:00ZBruxelles : Leipzig : A. Lacroix, VerboeckhovenFrench—Public digitized item

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  • bpt6k57265106
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Cataloging notes

  • 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 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.
  • 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.
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  • 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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openlibrary-work:OL1262826W
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