1st Edition
Sorcellerie et justice criminelle Le Parlement de Paris (16e–18e siècles)
By Alfred Soman
Copyright 1992
344 Pages
by
Routledge
344 Pages
by
Routledge
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The Parlement of Paris was the largest secular court in Christendom. Although its criminal archives have been preserved virtually intact, historians of the period of the great witch trials, as well as scholars of the Ancien Régime in general, have been discouraged by the notorious difficulties of research into them, and have effectively avoided these records. Alfred Soman was the first historian... Read more
Contents: Avant-propos; Les procès de sorcellerie au Parlement de Paris (1565-1640); The Parlement of Paris and the great witch hunt (1565-1640); La sorcellerie vue du Parlement de Paris au début du XVIIe siècle; Deviance and criminal justice in Western Europe, 1300-1800: an essay in structure; Le Registre consistorial de Coutras, 1582-1584; Aux origines de l’appel de droit dans l’Ordonnance criminelle de 1670; La justice criminelle aux XVIe-XVIIe siècles: le Parlement de Paris et les sièges subalternes; Pathologie historique: le témoignage des procès de bestialité aux XVIe-XVIIe siècles; La querelle de l’antimoine: Guy Patin sur la sellette; Un bûcher pour un judaïsant: Jean Fontanier (1621); Le témoignage maquillé: encore un aspect de l’infra-justice à l’époque moderne; La décriminalisation de la sorcellerie en France; Trente procès de sorcellerie dans le Perche (1566-1624); Le rôle des Ardennes dans la décriminalisation de la sorcellerie en France; Decriminalizing witchcraft: does the French experience furnish a European model?; Corrigenda et addenda; Index.
Biography
Alfred Soman
'...represents a very important contribution on the two major fronts indicated by the title. Soman’s work is in many ways a remarkable demonstration of historical method.' English Historical Review






