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Book Title
Strange Revelations: Magic, Poison, and Sacrilege in Louis XIV's
Publication Date
2007-01-01
Pages
224
ISBN
9780271029160
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The Affair of the Poisons was the greatest court scandal of the seventeenth century. From 1679 to 1682 the French crown investigated more than 400 people -- including Louis XIV's official mistress and members of the highest-ranking circles at court -- for sensational crimes. In Strange Revelations, Lynn Mollenauer brings this bizarre story to life, exposing a criminal magical underworld thriving in the heart of the Sun King's capital. The macabre details of the Affair of the Poisons read like a gothic novel. In the fall of 1678, Nicolas de la Reynie, head of the Paris police, uncovered a plot to poison Louis XIV. La Reynie's subsequent investigation unveiled a loosely knit community of sorceresses, magicians, and renegade priests who offered for sale an array of services and products ranging from abortions to love magic to poisons known as "inheritance powders." It was the inheritance powders (usually made from powdered toads steeped in arsenic) that lent the Affair of the Poisons its name. The purchasers of the powders gave the affair its notoriety, for the scandal extended into the most exalted ranks of the French court. Mollenauer adroitly uses the Affair of the Poisons to uncover the hidden forms of power that men and women of all social classes invoked to achieve their goals. While the exercise of state power during the ancien rigime was quintessentially visible -- ritually displayed through public ceremonies -- the affair exposes the simultaneous presence of other imagined and real sources of power available to the Sun King's subjects: magic, poison, and the manipulation of sexual passions.

Product Identifiers

Publisher
Pennsylvania STATE University Press
ISBN-10
0271029161
ISBN-13
9780271029160
eBay Product ID (ePID)
53734575

Product Key Features

Number of Pages
224 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Strange Revelations : Magic, Poison, and Sacrilege in Louis Xiv's France
Publication Year
2007
Subject
Toxicology, Murder / General, Europe / France, Magick Studies, Legal History, Modern / 17th Century
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
True Crime, Law, Body, Mind & Spirit, Medical, History
Author
Lynn Wood Mollenauer
Series
Magic in History Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
0.6 in
Item Weight
13 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
5.9 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2006-015081
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
"For anyone with an interest in the history of magic, Strange Revelations contains fascinating revelations indeed." --Jeffrey Freedman Church History, &"Strange Revelations effectively explores the multiple ways in which power was exercised at the court of Louis XIV, focusing on the 'hidden forms&' effected through poison and magic. Mollenauer does an excellent job of probing these issues through close analysis of the records left to us concerning the 'Affair of the Poisons.'&" &-James R. Farr, Purdue University, "It is well researched and an enjoyable read. Undergraduate students should digest it without resistance, and teachers can find much in it to provoke discussion, including but not limited to the obvious evidentiary problem. It should be on everyone's reading list." -John J. Hunt, Journal of Church and State, "The latest in the distinguished Magic in History series of the Pennsylvania State University Press, Lynn Wood Mollenauer's Strange Revelations: Magic, Poison, and Sacrilege in Louis XIV's France (2007) is a well-researched and convincing introduction to and nearly definitive book on the subject. This paradoxical fact results from the lack of further sources for research: thus Mollenauer has done just about all that can be done on poisoning and black magic in late seventeenth-century Paris." --Orest Ranum, H-France Book Reviews, &"For anyone with an interest in the history of magic, Strange Revelations contains fascinating revelations indeed.&" &-Jeffrey Freedman, Church History, " Strange Revelations effectively explores the multiple ways in which power was exercised at the court of Louis XIV, focusing on the 'hidden forms' effected through poison and magic. Mollenauer does an excellent job of probing these issues through close analysis of the records left to us concerning the 'Affair of the Poisons.'" --James R. Farr,Purdue University, "This book is a worthy contribution to the Magic in History Series: in fact, it is spellbinding." -Camille Weiss, Renaissance Quarterly, "Strange Revelations effectively explores the multiple ways in which power was exercised at the court of Louis XIV, focusing on the 'hidden forms' effected through poison and magic. Mollenauer does an excellent job of probing these issues through close analysis of the records left to us concerning the 'Affair of the Poisons.'" -James R. Farr, Purdue University, "This book is a worthy contribution to the Magic in History Series: in fact, it is spellbinding." --Camille Weiss Renaissance Quarterly, "The latest in the distinguished Magic in History series of the Pennsylvania State University Press, Lynn Wood Mollenauer's Strange Revelations: Magic, Poison, and Sacrilege in Louis XIV's France (2007) is a well-researched and convincing introduction to and nearly definitive book on the subject. This paradoxical fact results from the lack of further sources for research: thus Mollenauer has done just about all that can be done on poisoning and black magic in late seventeenth-century Paris." --Orest Ranum H-France Book Reviews, "The latest in the distinguished Magic in History series of the Pennsylvania State University Press, Lynn Wood Mollenauer's Strange Revelations: Magic, Poison, and Sacrilege in Louis XIV's France (2007) is a well-researched and convincing introduction to and nearly definitive book on the subject. This paradoxical fact results from the lack of further sources for research: thus Mollenauer has done just about all that can be done on poisoning and black magic in late seventeenth-century Paris." -Orest Ranum, H-France Book Reviews, &"The latest in the distinguished Magic in History series of the Pennsylvania State University Press, Lynn Wood Mollenauer&'s Strange Revelations: Magic, Poison, and Sacrilege in Louis XIV&'s France (2007) is a well-researched and convincing introduction to and nearly definitive book on the subject. This paradoxical fact results from the lack of further sources for research: thus Mollenauer has done just about all that can be done on poisoning and black magic in late seventeenth-century Paris.&" &-Orest Ranum, H-France Book Reviews, &"This intelligent and well-written study deserves a wide readership among historians in general and is accessible enough for undergraduate students as well the literate public.&" &-Malcolm Greenshields, Catholic Historical Review, "This intelligent and well-written study deserves a wide readership among historians in general and is accessible enough for undergraduate students as well the literate public." --Malcolm Greenshields, Catholic Historical Review, &"It is well researched and an enjoyable read. Undergraduate students should digest it without resistance, and teachers can find much in it to provoke discussion, including but not limited to the obvious evidentiary problem. It should be on everyone&'s reading list.&" &-John J. Hunt, Journal of Church and State, " Strange Revelations effectively explores the multiple ways in which power was exercised at the court of Louis XIV, focusing on the 'hidden forms' effected through poison and magic. Mollenauer does an excellent job of probing these issues through close analysis of the records left to us concerning the 'Affair of the Poisons.'" --James R. Farr, Purdue University, "For anyone with an interest in the history of magic, Strange Revelations contains fascinating revelations indeed." -Jeffrey Freedman, Church History, "Strange Revelations effectively explores the multiple ways in which power was exercised at the court of Louis XIV, focusing on the 'hidden forms' effected through poison and magic. Mollenauer does an excellent job of probing these issues through close analysis of the records left to us concerning the 'Affair of the Poisons.'" --James R. Farr, Purdue University, "This intelligent and well-written study deserves a wide readership among historians in general and is accessible enough for undergraduate students as well the literate public." --Malcolm Greenshields Catholic Historical Review, "For anyone with an interest in the history of magic, Strange Revelations contains fascinating revelations indeed." --Jeffrey Freedman, Church History, " Strange Revelations effectively explores the multiple ways in which power was exercised at the court of Louis XIV, focusing on the 'hidden forms' effected through poison and magic. Mollenauer does an excellent job of probing these issues through close analysis of the records left to us concerning the 'Affair of the Poisons.'" -James R. Farr, Purdue University, "This book is a worthy contribution to the Magic in History Series: in fact, it is spellbinding." --Camille Weiss, Renaissance Quarterly, &"This book is a worthy contribution to the Magic in History Series: in fact, it is spellbinding.&" &-Camille Weiss, Renaissance Quarterly, "It is well researched and an enjoyable read. Undergraduate students should digest it without resistance, and teachers can find much in it to provoke discussion, including but not limited to the obvious evidentiary problem. It should be on everyone's reading list." --John J. Hunt, Journal of Church and State, "This intelligent and well-written study deserves a wide readership among historians in general and is accessible enough for undergraduate students as well the literate public." -Malcolm Greenshields, Catholic Historical Review, "It is well researched and an enjoyable read. Undergraduate students should digest it without resistance, and teachers can find much in it to provoke discussion, including but not limited to the obvious evidentiary problem. It should be on everyone's reading list." --John J. Hunt Journal of Church and State
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
944/.033
Lc Classification Number
Dc126.M5 2006
Table of Content
Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Investigating the Affair of the Poisons, 1676-1682 2. Medea and the Marquise: Understanding the Crime of Poison in Seventeenth-Century France 3. The Criminal Magical Underworld of Paris 4. The Renegade Priests of Paris and the Amatory Mass 5. The Magic of Mistresses at the Court of Louis XIV Conclusion: The End of Magic? Notes Bibliography Index

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