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L'imaginaire du sabbat : édition critique des textes les plus anciens (1430 c. - 1440 c.)
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ISBN: 2940110166 9782940110162 Year: 1999 Volume: 26 Publisher: Lausanne Université de Lausanne


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Le sabbat des sorciers : 15ème - 18ème siècles
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ISBN: 2905614854 9782905614858 Year: 1993 Publisher: Grenoble : Jérôme Millon,


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Invoking the Akelarre : voices of the accused in the Basque witch-craze, 1609-1614
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ISBN: 9781845199692 1845199693 Year: 2019 Publisher: Eastbourne Sussex Academic Press

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"With their dramatic descriptions of black masses and cannibalistic feasts, the records generated by the Basque witch-craze of 1609-14 provide us with arguably the most demonologically-stereotypical accounts of the witches' sabbath - or akelarre - to have emerged from early modern Europe. While the trials have attracted scholarly attention, the most substantial monograph on the subject was written nearly forty years ago and most works have focused on the ways in which interrogators shaped the pattern of prosecutions and the testimonies of defendants. Invoking the Akelarre diverts from this norm by employing more recent historiographical paradigms to analyze the contributions of the accused. Through interdisciplinary analyses of both French- and Spanish-Basque records, it argues that suspects were not passive recipients of elite demonological stereotypes but animated these received templates with their own belief and experience, from the dark exoticism of magical conjuration, liturgical cursing and theatrical misrule to the sharp pragmatism of domestic medical practice and everyday religious observance. In highlighting the range of raw materials available to the suspects, the book helps us to understand how the fiction of the witches' sabbath emerged to such prominence in contemporary mentalities, whilst also restoring some agency to the defendants and nuancing the historical thesis that stereotypical content points to interrogatorial opinion and folkloric content to the voices of the accused"--

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