Crime of Crimes, The
Subtitle: Demonology and Politics in France, 1560-1620
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Published: March 1, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 181
ISBN-13: 9780889202962
Subjects: European history: c 1500 to c 1750; Magic & alchemy; Witchcraft; c 1500 to c 1600; c 1600 to c 1700; France - History; Religion - Spiritual Warfare; History: World; France; Witchcraft & Wicca; History; Occultism; History / General; Europe - France
Description: "In France, dozens of books, pamphlets and tracts, depicting witchcraft as the most horrible of crimes, were published and widely distributed."--BOOK JACKET.

"Yet, in his new book, The Crime of Crimes: Demonology and Politics in France, 1560-1620, Jonathan Pearl shows that France carried out relatively few executions for witchcraft. Through careful research he shows that a zealous Catholic faction identified the Protestant rebels as traitors and heretics in league with the devil and clamoured for the political and legal establishment to exterminate these enemies of humanity.

But the courts were dominated by moderate Catholics whose political views were in sharp contrast to those of the zealots and, as a result, the demonologists failed to ignite a major witch-craze in France."--BOOK JACKET.