The aim of this master’s dissertation is to observe and analyse not the practice of witchcraft itself, but the reception of such practice through the representation of witches in poetry. During the 18th century, beliefs and ideas in such matter remained thoroughly incompatible between the elite and the masses2, making it relevant to focus on the main points of contention. This study will neither dig into the witch trials craze nor their persecution, but on the effect of such events on popular imagination, and the decline of the beliefs it led to, during the age of reason and the rise of rationalist critique. When, why, and how a concept such as that of the witch came to evolve from a popular belief to a myth, and therefore a resource widely...
International audienceBy studying the use of the Christian supernatural in Desmarets de Saint-Sorlin...
Between the autumn of 1459 and late 1460, the city of Arras in Artois saw a veritable wave of witch ...
This dissertation aims at providing a panorama of the magicoverbal belief, i.e. the belief that word...
The nineteenth century uncovered and analysed the tragic episodes of witch-hunting and ‘witch’ trial...
Eine Reflexion über die Beziehungen und Unterschiede der Gestalt der Hexe in der volkstümlichen Trad...
Le présent travail, qui relève de la sociologie de la connaissance, vise à décrire l'évolution insti...
Cette thèse entend étudier le côté « public » des affaires de sorcellerie en France dans un long XVI...
Le document que nous présentons a été amendé selon les corrections préconisées par le jury.Over the ...
Behind the Mirror : Satanic Myths and Cultural Realities during the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centur...
This study is grounded on researches in the University of Tours concerning some witch trials held in...
Between the end of the Middle Ages and the beginning of the 17th century, western Europe is the sta...
In her last novel, Les Sorcières de la République, Chloé Delaume imagines a society run by women who...
Sorcery is a subject that always creates heated debate in our contemporary society. That’s why we ai...
The crime of witchcraft was punishable by legal proceedings in the XIXth and XXth centuries for frau...
Reflections about the witch are presented as a challenge that goes through different dimensions. Th...
International audienceBy studying the use of the Christian supernatural in Desmarets de Saint-Sorlin...
Between the autumn of 1459 and late 1460, the city of Arras in Artois saw a veritable wave of witch ...
This dissertation aims at providing a panorama of the magicoverbal belief, i.e. the belief that word...
The nineteenth century uncovered and analysed the tragic episodes of witch-hunting and ‘witch’ trial...
Eine Reflexion über die Beziehungen und Unterschiede der Gestalt der Hexe in der volkstümlichen Trad...
Le présent travail, qui relève de la sociologie de la connaissance, vise à décrire l'évolution insti...
Cette thèse entend étudier le côté « public » des affaires de sorcellerie en France dans un long XVI...
Le document que nous présentons a été amendé selon les corrections préconisées par le jury.Over the ...
Behind the Mirror : Satanic Myths and Cultural Realities during the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centur...
This study is grounded on researches in the University of Tours concerning some witch trials held in...
Between the end of the Middle Ages and the beginning of the 17th century, western Europe is the sta...
In her last novel, Les Sorcières de la République, Chloé Delaume imagines a society run by women who...
Sorcery is a subject that always creates heated debate in our contemporary society. That’s why we ai...
The crime of witchcraft was punishable by legal proceedings in the XIXth and XXth centuries for frau...
Reflections about the witch are presented as a challenge that goes through different dimensions. Th...
International audienceBy studying the use of the Christian supernatural in Desmarets de Saint-Sorlin...
Between the autumn of 1459 and late 1460, the city of Arras in Artois saw a veritable wave of witch ...
This dissertation aims at providing a panorama of the magicoverbal belief, i.e. the belief that word...