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La possession de Loudun

La possession de Loudun

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AuthorsCerteau, Michel de, S.J. Giard, Luce
SeriesCollection Folio/histoire [0.0]
TagsUrbain Grandier -- 1590-1634, Couvent des Ursulines (Loudun France) -- History -- 17th century, Demoniac possession -- France -- Loudun -- History -- 17th century, Jean-Joseph Surin S.J. 1600-65
PublisherGallimard
Published24 giu 2005
Date24 lug 2019
Languagesfra
Identifiersisbn: 9782072493485, oclc: 1105586224, uri: https://banq.pretnumerique.ca/resources/5900a57923579403ce0b138f, doi: 10.14375/NP.9782070319138
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mentions the pactes of Grandier, and quotes part of one: ref:19.157 (cf. Bell, Slaves of Satan ref:9.63-4)

WARNING: Certeau is a Freudian; Freud's psychology (although he was against contraception), was influenced by the Talmud.

Comment le diable est-il possible ? En 1632, la ville de Loudun est durement éprouvée par la peste. Les croyants se retirent, s’enterrent dans leurs petites communautés assiégées par cette épreuve de la colère divine. Parmi elles, les Ursulines. La possession des sœurs prend alors le relais de la peste : les premières apparitions – fantôme d’un homme de dos – sont nocturnes, puis elles deviennent diurnes, se précisent, et revêtent la forme obsédante d’un curé, Urbain Grandier. L’affaire commence. Loudun, ville ouverte, devient le centre et le théâtre d’un monde : six mille spectateurs assisteront à la mort de Grandier, sur le bûcher, le 18 août 1634. Entre-temps, les pouvoirs s’affrontent, les savoirs s’inquiètent, l’âme catholique s’émeut. Le corps social se déchire ; partout le diable est là, mais il est partout ailleurs : dans le silence des textes, les lacunes du langage. Michel de Certeau montre, dans ce grand ouvrage, comment guérit une société malade d’elle-même. Date de première édition : 1970.

It is August 18, 1634. Father Urbain Grandier, convicted of sorcery that led to the demonic possession of the Ursuline nuns of provincial Loudun in France, confesses his sins on the porch of the church of Saint-Pierre, then perishes in flames lit by his own exorcists. A dramatic tale that has inspired many artistic retellings, including a novel by Aldous Huxley and an incendiary film by Ken Russell, the story of the possession at Loudun here receives a detailed analysis from the Jesuit historian Michel de Certeau. Interweaving substantial excerpts from primary historical documents with commentary, de Certeau shows how the plague of sorceries and possessions in France that climaxed in the events at Loudun both revealed the deepest fears of a society in traumatic flux and accelerated its transformation. In this psychological history, de Certeau brings to life a people torn between the decline of centralized religious authority and the rise of [Galilean] science and [Cartesian "]reason[" (i.e., skepticism)], wracked by violent anxiety over what or whom to believe. --book cover

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