Satanism and Witchcraft Paperback - 1992
by Michelet, Jules
- Used
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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Details
- Title Satanism and Witchcraft
- Author Michelet, Jules
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 10th Paperbound
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 356
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Bedfordshire Historical Record Society, New York
- Date 1992-02-19
- Features Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # 16256002-6
- 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)
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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
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From the rear cover
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.
