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The Sorceress: Or, Satanism and Witchcraft (La Sorci?re)

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The Sorceress: Or, Satanism and Witchcraft (La Sorcière) - Allinson, Alfred Richard (Translated by), and Michelet, Jules
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The Sorceress, (Or, Satanism and Witchcraft) (French: La Sorci???re), by French historian Jules Michelet, was originally published in French in 1862, and English in 1939, as translated by Alfred Richard Allinson. The work is one of the first attempts to create a sociological explanation of the phenomenon of the witch trials. Michelet interprets the source material quite literally, and presents a proto-Marxist explanation for the trials. Seeing the witch cult as a primal rebellion against conventional society and religion of ...

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The Sorceress: Or, Satanism and Witchcraft (La Sorcière) 2019, Independently Published

ISBN-13: 9781705624128

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