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Satanism and Witchcraft: The Classic Study of Medieval Superstition
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Satanism and Witchcraft: The Classic Study of Medieval Superstition Paper back - 1998

by Jules Michelet

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Michelet's classic study of medieval superstition brings to the general public's attention one of the truly great sociological works of modern times, revealing an age of unbridled pleasure and sensuality, of luxury beyond imagination, and squalor beyond endurance. **Lightning Print On Demand Title

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Kensington Publishing Corp., August 1998. Paper Back. Good. Citadel Press, 1939, later reprint. Light to moderate cover wear includes fading to spine; binding solid, text pristine.
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  • Title Satanism and Witchcraft: The Classic Study of Medieval Superstition
  • Author Jules Michelet
  • Binding Paper Back
  • Edition 10th Paperbound
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 356
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Kensington Publishing Corp., New York
  • Date August 1998
  • Features Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 227385
  • ISBN 9780806500591 / 080650059X
  • Weight 1.16 lbs (0.53 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.22 x 6.08 x 0.9 in (23.42 x 15.44 x 2.29 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: Medieval (500-1453) Studies
  • Library of Congress subjects Satanism - History - To 1500, Witchcraft - History - To 1500
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 95203198
  • Dewey Decimal Code 133.430

First line

THERE are authors who assure us that a little while before the final victory of Christianity a mysterious voice was heard along the shores of the AEgean Sea, proclaiming: "Great Pan is dead!"

From the rear cover

Long out of print, Jules Michelet's classic study of medieval superstition has been reprinted in this edition to bring the general public's attention to one of the truly great sociological works of modern times.

Michelet brilliantly recreates the Europe of the Middle Ages, the centuries of fierce religious intolerance, the Inquisition and the auto-da-fe.

He depicts the feudal barons, the great manors, the fiefs and serfs... and the witches, hobgoblins and wizards of whom the masses lived in mortal fear.

Michelet draws flaming word pictures of the witch hunts, the Black Masses, the reign of Satan, and the weird rites of the damned. Here is the age of unbridled pleasure and sensuality, of luxury beyond imagination and squalor beyond endurance. Here is the time when a girl might be accused of witchcraft merely if she were young and pretty and did not survive the test of immersion in water or boiling oil. Here is the day of beatings, floggings, tortures and summary decapitations.

Encyclopedia Britannica called the book, "The most important work on medieval superstition yet written." It is indeed one of the great works on the Age of Darkness.

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