History Of The Roman Republic (1856)

Jules Michelet

This is a translation of Jules Michelet's La Sorcière, originally published in Paris in 1862. Michelet was one of the first to attempt a sociological explanation of the Witch trials. As time went on, the cult became institutionalized, which led to tacit toleration in some quarters. Michelet's portrayal of the lone sorceress as a pioneer of medicine and science is also memorable. Towards the end, a different kind of diabolical intervention is analyzed; the 'possession' of nuns in the 17th century, and how it was stage-managed by sadistic male clerics.

Satanism and Witchcraft

Dell Publishing

Edited by Lionel Gossman, this volume contains three programmatic essays by Michelet. The first two are available here for the first time in English translation. The third, the Preface to the 1869 edition of the Histoire de France, originally published in its first English translation by Edward K. Kaplan in his Michelet's Poetic Vision (1977), has been revised by the translator for this volume. One of the greatest Romantic historians and immensely popular during his lifetime, Jules Michelet (1798-1874) fell into disfavour among the positivist historians who came after him and who regarded his work with disdain as "literature." In the 1920s and 30s, however, he began to be rediscovered and rehabilitated by the members of the influential Annales school. The objects of Michelet's interest-living conditions, popular mentalities, laws and the arts, the historian's relation to the objects of his study, no less than political history-have since come to occupy a central place in modern historical research. A free online-only supplement contains an essay on Michelet by John Stuart Mill from the Edinburgh Review (January 1844) and several studies of Michelet by Lionel Gossman.

On History

History

Europe

Open Book Publishers

First English language publication of the great popular historian's description of The Sea

The Sea (Green Integer)

Biographies & Memoirs

Professionals & Academics

Green Integer

Joan of Arc

Sublunary Editions

Histoire de la Revolution Francaise 1 (French Edition) Bibliotheque de la Pleiade

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

French and European Publications Inc

Michelet : Histoire de la révolution française, tome 2 : 1792-1794 (French Edition)

HISTOIR DE FRANCE T17 LOUIS XVI

DES EQUATEURS

Le procès de Louis XVI

Complexe

Die Hexe

Promedia

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