{"product_id":"sorceress-a-study-of-witches-and-their-relations-with-demons-9789492355249","title":"Sorceress: A Study of Witches and their Relations with Demons","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Jules Michelet\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Vamzzz Publishing\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Vamzzz Publishing\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSorceress\u003c\/em\u003e (the English translation of \u003cem\u003eLa Sorcière\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 Cadière.\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","brand":"Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46490829062295,"sku":"9789492355249","price":2627.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9789492355249.jpg?v=1766346912","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/sorceress-a-study-of-witches-and-their-relations-with-demons-9789492355249","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}