The devils of Loudun
1st Harper Colophon ed.
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Word Count
84,750 words, Guess
Page Count
339 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL5985466M
- ISBN-100060902108
- OCLC Control Number6749500
- OCLC Control Number236305
- OCLC Control Numberdevilsofloudun00huxl_7h7
and 3 more
- Library of Congress Control Number66015223
- Goodreads7040802
- LibraryThing310272
Classifications
- LCCBF1517.F5 H8 1965
Description
In 1634 Urbain Grandier, a handsome and dissolute priest of the parish of Loudun was tried, tortured and burnt at the stake. He had been found guilty of conspiring with the devil to seduce an entire convent of nuns in what was the most sensational case of mass possession and sexual hysteria in history. Grandier maintained his innocence to the end and four years after his death the nuns were still being subjected to exorcisms to free them from their demonic bondage. Huxley's vivid account of this bizarre tale of religious and sexual obsession transforms our understanding of the medieval world. [[GoodReads][1]] [1]: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18658280-the-devils-of-loudun
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