{"product_id":"sorceress-jules-michelet-9789492355249","title":"Sorceress: A Study of Witches and their Relations with Demons","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSorceress\u003c\/em\u003e (the English translation of \u003cem\u003eLa Sorci re\u003c\/em\u003e) by Jules Michelet is still one of the most vivid, dark and confronting studies on witchcraft ever produced. Long before Murray, it positions the medieval witch within a diminishing ancient culture of nature worship and the ruthless efforts of Christianity, with its radical hostility towards nature and life, to overwrite it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMichelet's was an authority on the history of the Middle Ages, and his insistence that history should concentrate on \"\u003cem\u003ethe people, and not only its leaders or its institutions\u003c\/em\u003e\" placed him ahead of his time as a godfather of micro-history. Starting in the 13\u003csup\u003eth\u003c\/sup\u003e century the book moves on towards belladonna, the Sabbath and pacts with Satan into the hells of the Burning Times - social contexts, church intrigues and mass hysteria always included. Via Basque witches, the Black Masses and demoniacal possessions we enter the satanic decadence of 17\u003csup\u003eth\u003c\/sup\u003e century France, and finally the end of the witch burning era in 18\u003csup\u003eth\u003c\/sup\u003e century, with the trial of Charlotte Cadi re.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThough a solid work of history, the reader is not presented with a bone dry exposition of facts and theories, but with something that tastes like a bloody mary. Michelet wrote juicy, and from the perspective (or policy) of a socially engaged activist. He tried to trigger a maximum of emotional connection with the themes he wrote about. \u003cem\u003eSorceress\u003c\/em\u003e is therefore one of those rare books on which the dust will never really settle... Read more about Jules Michelet in in the Post Scriptum of \u003cem\u003eSorceress. \u003c\/em\u003ePreview on vamzzz.com\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jules Michelet\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 9492355248\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9789492355249\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Vamzzz Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/26\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 432\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.24lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.96d","brand":"Jules Michelet","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43941356863743,"sku":"9789492355249","price":28.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_9386c4d8-f52e-4450-af80-cf23c50a779e.jpg?v=1681452447","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/sorceress-jules-michelet-9789492355249","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}