The possession at Loudun / Michel de Certeau ; translated by Michael B. Smith ; with a foreword by Stephen Greenblatt.

Author: Certeau, Michel de.

Imprint:Chicago, IL : University of Chicago Press, 2000.

Descriptionxi, 251 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.

Note:History is never sure -- How a possession is born -- The magic circle -- The discourse of possession -- The accused : Urbain Grandier -- Politics in Loudun : Laubardemont -- Beginning the judicial inquiry -- The theater of the possessed -- The medical eye -- A teratology of truth. The imagination ; The liar -- The judgment of the sorcerer -- The execution : legend and history -- After death, literature -- The time of spirituality : Father Surin -- The triumph of Jeanne des Anges -- Figures of the other.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-244) and index.

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