International audienceIn an important case of possession from early 17th-century France (also called the affair of Gaufridy or of Madeleine de Demandols), the devils are extremely loquacious. The figure of the preaching devil is preeminent. This contribution will first describe the circumstances and the context of this famous case and discuss the texts that publicized it (most importantly the Histoire admirable of the exorcists Sébastien Michaelis and François Dooms). It will then focus on the question of the linguistic skills and limits of the devils. First of all, there is the fact that knowing languages that one had not learned (here, Latin) was considered a major sign of possession, but this was also heavily disputed and at the heart of...
The compilers of exempla had their attention caught by an old heresy: Arianism, which could be the m...
Witchcraft in Poitiers during the modern age should be studied in light of the story of the devils i...
This dissertation examines the portrayal of characters who use language in unusual and therefore rid...
International audienceIn an important case of possession from early 17th-century France (also called...
In the 1730s, a group of villages in the Venetian Dolomites was the stage of a case of collective po...
In the numerous accounts of demonic possessions in the first half of the 17th century in France, the...
This is a highly original study of possession by demons and their exorcism, which was rife in early ...
The first part of this thesis makes an assessment of the various forms of possession witch possessio...
La posesión diabólica fue una compleja experiencia cultural muy común en la sociedad tempranomoderna...
This dissertation, which examines the demonic possession of women in three cases that took place in ...
Between the end of the Middle Ages and the beginning of the 17th century, western Europe is the sta...
International audienceOne case of possession, which occurred in Lodi in 1173, resulted in two separa...
International audienceAbstract. The great affairs of demonic possession of the XVIth and XVIIth cent...
The diabolical possession was a complex cultural experience very common in the early modern society....
17th century French texts on possession have been often analysed by historians of religions (or lack...
The compilers of exempla had their attention caught by an old heresy: Arianism, which could be the m...
Witchcraft in Poitiers during the modern age should be studied in light of the story of the devils i...
This dissertation examines the portrayal of characters who use language in unusual and therefore rid...
International audienceIn an important case of possession from early 17th-century France (also called...
In the 1730s, a group of villages in the Venetian Dolomites was the stage of a case of collective po...
In the numerous accounts of demonic possessions in the first half of the 17th century in France, the...
This is a highly original study of possession by demons and their exorcism, which was rife in early ...
The first part of this thesis makes an assessment of the various forms of possession witch possessio...
La posesión diabólica fue una compleja experiencia cultural muy común en la sociedad tempranomoderna...
This dissertation, which examines the demonic possession of women in three cases that took place in ...
Between the end of the Middle Ages and the beginning of the 17th century, western Europe is the sta...
International audienceOne case of possession, which occurred in Lodi in 1173, resulted in two separa...
International audienceAbstract. The great affairs of demonic possession of the XVIth and XVIIth cent...
The diabolical possession was a complex cultural experience very common in the early modern society....
17th century French texts on possession have been often analysed by historians of religions (or lack...
The compilers of exempla had their attention caught by an old heresy: Arianism, which could be the m...
Witchcraft in Poitiers during the modern age should be studied in light of the story of the devils i...
This dissertation examines the portrayal of characters who use language in unusual and therefore rid...