Virginia Krause

Witchcraft, Demonology, and Confession in Early Modern France

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Situated at the crossroads of history and literary studies, this book examines confession's place at the heart of French demonology.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 204
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Januar 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 237mm x 159mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 483g
• ISBN-13: 9781107074408
• ISBN-10: 1107074401
• Artikelnr.: 41610350

Autorenporträt

Virginia Krause is Associate Professor of French Studies at Brown University. She received a research fellowship from the Newberry Library in 1999 and has been invited to speak at universities in the United States (Harvard, Cornell, University of Virginia, Dartmouth, University of Indiana, and Brandeis University), France (Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines and Université de Toulouse), and the United Kingdom (University of Hull). Krause currently serves on the external editorial committee of French Forum. She is the author of Idle Pursuits: Literature and 'Oisiveté' in the French Renaissance and is currently finishing a critical edition of Jean Bodin's De la démonomanie des sorciers (coedited with Christian Martin and Eric MacPhail).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. From the witch's mouth
2. Dark truth: demonology's auricular regime
3. Dismantling demonology's confessional
4. Becoming a witch
Conclusion: lessons from the demonological night.