Author: Michel de Certeau
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Keywords: loudun, possession
Number of Pages: 266
Published: 2000-08-01
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0226100359
ISBN-13: 9780226100357

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 compelling analysis from the renowned Jesuit historian Michel de Certeau.Interweaving substantial excerpts from primary historical documents wi

Author: Aldous Huxley
Publisher: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Keywords: loudun, devils
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2009-08-01
List price: $14.99
ISBN-10: 0061724912
ISBN-13: 9780061724916

Aldous Huxley’s acclaimed and gripping account of one of the strangest occurrences in history In 1643 an entire convent in the small French village of Loudun was apparently possessed by the devil. After a sensational and celebrated trial, the convent’s charismatic priest Urban Grandier—accused of spiritually and sexually seducing the nuns in his charge—was convicted of being in league with Satan. Then he was burned at the stake for witchcraft. In this classic work by the legendary Aldous Huxley—a remarkable true story of religious and sexual obsession considered by many