The possession at Loudun /

The possession at Loudun /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Certeau, Michel de
Uniform title:	Possession de Loudun. English
Imprint:	Chicago, IL : University of Chicago Press, 2000.
Description:	xi, 251 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Grandier, Urbain, -- 1590-1634. Grandier, Urbain, -- 1590-1634 Couvent des Ursulines (Loudun, France) -- History -- 17th century. Couvent des Ursulines (Loudun, France) Demoniac possession -- France -- Loudun -- History -- 17th century. Demoniac possession. Loudun (France) -- Church history -- 17th century. France -- Loudun. Church history. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4319905

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ISBN:	0226100340 (alk. paper) 0226100359 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-244) and index.

Table of Contents:

List of Illustrations
Foreword
Translator's Acknowledgments
History Is Never Sure
1. How a Possession is Born
2. The Magic Circle
3. The Discourse of Possession
4. The Accused: Urbain Grandier
5. Politics in Loudun: Laubardemont
6. Beginning the Judicial Inquiry
7. The Theater of the Possessed
8. The Medical Eye
9. A Teratology of Truth
I. The Imagination
II. The Liar
10. The Judgment of the Sorcerer
11. The Execution: Legend and History
12. After Death, Literature
13. The Time of Spirituality: Father Surin
14. The Triumph of Jeanne des Anges
Figures of the Other
Primary Sources and Bibliography
Notes
Index