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Witchcraft, Demonology, and Confession in Early Modern France

by Virginia Krause

  • First published:
  • 21st century
  • Language: English
  • Content type: Fiction

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Denounced by neighbors and scrutinized by demonologists, the early modern French witch also confessed, self-identified as a witch and as the author of horrific deeds. What led her to this point? Despair, solitude, perhaps even physical pain, but most decisively, demonology's two-pronged prosecutorial and truth-seeking confessional apparatus. This book examines the systematic and well-oiled machinery that served to extract, interpret, and disseminate witches' confessions in early modern France. For the demonologist, confession was the only way to find out the truth about the clandestine activities of witches. For the witch, however, trial confessions opened new horizons of selfhood. In this book, Virginia Krause unravels the threads that wove together the demonologist's will to know and the witch's subjectivity. By examining textual and visual evidence, Krause shows how confession not only generated demonological theory but also brought forth a specific kind of self, which we now recognize as the modern subject.

Provenance

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 harvard matched “witchcraft”. Retained metadata contains “Witchcraft” in the title, “witches” in the description, “Witchcraft” in the subject metadata, and 1 additional metadata match(es).

    • “witchcraft”· via Harvard LibraryCloud
    • “Witchcraft”· in title
    • “witches”· in description
    • “Witchcraft”· in subject
    • “Witchcraft”· in edition title
  • Demonology, angelology, and possession

    Controlled discovery queries from crossref, harvard, libris, and openalex matched “demonology”. Retained metadata contains “Demonology” in the title, “Demonology” in the description, “Demonology” in the subject metadata, and 1 additional metadata match(es).

    • “demonology”· via Crossref
    • “demonology”· via Harvard LibraryCloud
    • “demonology”· via Libris, National Library of Sweden
    • “demonology”· via OpenAlex
    • “Demonology”· in title
    • “Demonology”· in description

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xi, 191 pages ; 24 cm

2015-01-19Cambridge University Press; Cambridge University Press eBooksEnglish
  • 9781107074408
  • 9781107425590
  • 9781139696685
  • 1107074401
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crossref:10.1017/cbo9781139696685
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