The Basque witch-hunt: a secret history
"In June 1609, two judges left Bordeaux for a territory at the very edge of their jurisdiction, a Basque-speaking province on the Atlantic coast called the Pays de Labourd. In four months, they executed up to 80 women and men for the crime of witchcraft, causing a wave of suspects to flee into...
Gespeichert in:
| 1. Verfasser: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | English |
| Veröffentlicht: |
London ; New York ; Oxford ; New Delhi ; Sydney
Bloomsbury Academic
2024
|
| Zusammenfassung: | "In June 1609, two judges left Bordeaux for a territory at the very edge of their jurisdiction, a Basque-speaking province on the Atlantic coast called the Pays de Labourd. In four months, they executed up to 80 women and men for the crime of witchcraft, causing a wave of suspects to flee into Spain and sparking terror there. Witnesses, many of them children, described lurid tales of cannibalism, vampirism, and demonic sex. One of the judges, Pierre de Lancre, published a sensationalist account of this diabolical netherworld. With other accounts seemingly destroyed, this witch-hunt - France's largest - has always been seen through de Lancres eyes. The narrative, re-told over the centuries, is that of a witch-hunt caused by a bigoted outsider. Newly discovered evidence paints a very different, still darker picture, revealing a secret history underneath de Lancres well-known tale. Far from an outside imposition, witchcraft was a home-grown problem. Panic had been building up over a number of years and the region was fractured by factionalism and a struggle over scarce resources. The Basque Witch-Hunt reveals that de Lancre was no outsider; he was a local partisan, married into the Basque nobility. Living at the Franco-Spanish border, the Basques were victims of geography. Geo-politics caused a local conflict which made the witch-hunt inevitable. The same forces eventually sent thousands of religious refugees from Spain to France where they, in turn, became new objects of popular fear and anger. The Basque witch-hunt is justly infamous. This book shows that almost everything historians thought they knew about it is wrong." |
| Beschreibung: | XIX, 318 Seiten Illustrationen, Karten, Porträts (s/w) 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 9781350441507 |
Internformat
MARC
| LEADER | 00000nam a2200000 c 4500 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 001 | BV050096949 | ||
| 003 | DE-604 | ||
| 005 | 20250127 | ||
| 007 | t| | ||
| 008 | 241216s2024 xxkac|| |||| 00||| eng d | ||
| 020 | |a 9781350441507 |c hbk |9 978-1-350-44150-7 | ||
| 035 | |a (OCoLC)1466061449 | ||
| 035 | |a (DE-599)KXP1903433630 | ||
| 040 | |a DE-604 |b ger |e rda | ||
| 041 | 0 | |a eng | |
| 044 | |a xxk |c XA-GB | ||
| 049 | |a DE-12 | ||
| 082 | 0 | |a 272.0882033 | |
| 084 | |a HIST |q DE-12 |2 fid | ||
| 100 | 1 | |a Machielsen, Jan |d 1984- |e Verfasser |0 (DE-588)1067541438 |4 aut | |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a The Basque witch-hunt |b a secret history |c Jan Machielsen |
| 264 | 1 | |a London ; New York ; Oxford ; New Delhi ; Sydney |b Bloomsbury Academic |c 2024 | |
| 300 | |a XIX, 318 Seiten |b Illustrationen, Karten, Porträts (s/w) |c 24 cm | ||
| 336 | |b txt |2 rdacontent | ||
| 337 | |b n |2 rdamedia | ||
| 338 | |b nc |2 rdacarrier | ||
| 520 | 3 | |a "In June 1609, two judges left Bordeaux for a territory at the very edge of their jurisdiction, a Basque-speaking province on the Atlantic coast called the Pays de Labourd. In four months, they executed up to 80 women and men for the crime of witchcraft, causing a wave of suspects to flee into Spain and sparking terror there. Witnesses, many of them children, described lurid tales of cannibalism, vampirism, and demonic sex. One of the judges, Pierre de Lancre, published a sensationalist account of this diabolical netherworld. With other accounts seemingly destroyed, this witch-hunt - France's largest - has always been seen through de Lancres eyes. The narrative, re-told over the centuries, is that of a witch-hunt caused by a bigoted outsider. Newly discovered evidence paints a very different, still darker picture, revealing a secret history underneath de Lancres well-known tale. Far from an outside imposition, witchcraft was a home-grown problem. Panic had been building up over a number of years and the region was fractured by factionalism and a struggle over scarce resources. The Basque Witch-Hunt reveals that de Lancre was no outsider; he was a local partisan, married into the Basque nobility. Living at the Franco-Spanish border, the Basques were victims of geography. Geo-politics caused a local conflict which made the witch-hunt inevitable. The same forces eventually sent thousands of religious refugees from Spain to France where they, in turn, became new objects of popular fear and anger. The Basque witch-hunt is justly infamous. This book shows that almost everything historians thought they knew about it is wrong." | |
| 776 | 0 | 8 | |i Erscheint auch als |n Online-Ausgabe, epdf |z 9781350441514 |
| 776 | 0 | 8 | |i Erscheint auch als |n Online-Ausgabe, ebook |z 9781350441521 |
| 943 | 1 | |a oai:aleph.bib-bvb.de:BVB01-035434155 | |
Datensatz im Suchindex
| _version_ | 1823675870308466689 |
|---|---|
| adam_text | |
| any_adam_object | |
| author | Machielsen, Jan 1984- |
| author_GND | (DE-588)1067541438 |
| author_facet | Machielsen, Jan 1984- |
| author_role | aut |
| author_sort | Machielsen, Jan 1984- |
| author_variant | j m jm |
| building | Verbundindex |
| bvnumber | BV050096949 |
| ctrlnum | (OCoLC)1466061449 (DE-599)KXP1903433630 |
| dewey-full | 272.0882033 |
| dewey-hundreds | 200 - Religion |
| dewey-ones | 272 - Persecutions in general church history |
| dewey-raw | 272.0882033 |
| dewey-search | 272.0882033 |
| dewey-sort | 3272.0882033 |
| dewey-tens | 270 - History, geographic treatment, biography |
| discipline | Theologie / Religionswissenschaften |
| format | Book |
| fullrecord | <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><collection xmlns="http://www.loc.gov/MARC21/slim"><record><leader>00000nam a2200000 c 4500</leader><controlfield tag="001">BV050096949</controlfield><controlfield tag="003">DE-604</controlfield><controlfield tag="005">20250127</controlfield><controlfield tag="007">t|</controlfield><controlfield tag="008">241216s2024 xxkac|| |||| 00||| eng d</controlfield><datafield tag="020" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">9781350441507</subfield><subfield code="c">hbk</subfield><subfield code="9">978-1-350-44150-7</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="035" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">(OCoLC)1466061449</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="035" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">(DE-599)KXP1903433630</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="040" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">DE-604</subfield><subfield code="b">ger</subfield><subfield code="e">rda</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="041" ind1="0" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">eng</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="044" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">xxk</subfield><subfield code="c">XA-GB</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="049" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">DE-12</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="082" ind1="0" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">272.0882033</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="084" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">HIST</subfield><subfield code="q">DE-12</subfield><subfield code="2">fid</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="100" ind1="1" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">Machielsen, Jan</subfield><subfield code="d">1984-</subfield><subfield code="e">Verfasser</subfield><subfield code="0">(DE-588)1067541438</subfield><subfield code="4">aut</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="245" ind1="1" ind2="0"><subfield code="a">The Basque witch-hunt</subfield><subfield code="b">a secret history</subfield><subfield code="c">Jan Machielsen</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="264" ind1=" " ind2="1"><subfield code="a">London ; New York ; Oxford ; New Delhi ; Sydney</subfield><subfield code="b">Bloomsbury Academic</subfield><subfield code="c">2024</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="300" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">XIX, 318 Seiten</subfield><subfield code="b">Illustrationen, Karten, Porträts (s/w)</subfield><subfield code="c">24 cm</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="336" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="b">txt</subfield><subfield code="2">rdacontent</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="337" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="b">n</subfield><subfield code="2">rdamedia</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="338" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="b">nc</subfield><subfield code="2">rdacarrier</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="520" ind1="3" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">"In June 1609, two judges left Bordeaux for a territory at the very edge of their jurisdiction, a Basque-speaking province on the Atlantic coast called the Pays de Labourd. In four months, they executed up to 80 women and men for the crime of witchcraft, causing a wave of suspects to flee into Spain and sparking terror there. Witnesses, many of them children, described lurid tales of cannibalism, vampirism, and demonic sex. One of the judges, Pierre de Lancre, published a sensationalist account of this diabolical netherworld. With other accounts seemingly destroyed, this witch-hunt - France's largest - has always been seen through de Lancres eyes. The narrative, re-told over the centuries, is that of a witch-hunt caused by a bigoted outsider. Newly discovered evidence paints a very different, still darker picture, revealing a secret history underneath de Lancres well-known tale. Far from an outside imposition, witchcraft was a home-grown problem. Panic had been building up over a number of years and the region was fractured by factionalism and a struggle over scarce resources. The Basque Witch-Hunt reveals that de Lancre was no outsider; he was a local partisan, married into the Basque nobility. Living at the Franco-Spanish border, the Basques were victims of geography. Geo-politics caused a local conflict which made the witch-hunt inevitable. The same forces eventually sent thousands of religious refugees from Spain to France where they, in turn, became new objects of popular fear and anger. The Basque witch-hunt is justly infamous. This book shows that almost everything historians thought they knew about it is wrong."</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="776" ind1="0" ind2="8"><subfield code="i">Erscheint auch als</subfield><subfield code="n">Online-Ausgabe, epdf</subfield><subfield code="z">9781350441514</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="776" ind1="0" ind2="8"><subfield code="i">Erscheint auch als</subfield><subfield code="n">Online-Ausgabe, ebook</subfield><subfield code="z">9781350441521</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="943" ind1="1" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">oai:aleph.bib-bvb.de:BVB01-035434155</subfield></datafield></record></collection> |
| id | DE-604.BV050096949 |
| illustrated | Illustrated |
| indexdate | 2025-02-10T13:07:18Z |
| institution | BVB |
| isbn | 9781350441507 |
| language | English |
| oai_aleph_id | oai:aleph.bib-bvb.de:BVB01-035434155 |
| oclc_num | 1466061449 |
| open_access_boolean | |
| owner | DE-12 |
| owner_facet | DE-12 |
| physical | XIX, 318 Seiten Illustrationen, Karten, Porträts (s/w) 24 cm |
| publishDate | 2024 |
| publishDateSearch | 2024 |
| publishDateSort | 2024 |
| publisher | Bloomsbury Academic |
| record_format | marc |
| spelling | Machielsen, Jan 1984- Verfasser (DE-588)1067541438 aut The Basque witch-hunt a secret history Jan Machielsen London ; New York ; Oxford ; New Delhi ; Sydney Bloomsbury Academic 2024 XIX, 318 Seiten Illustrationen, Karten, Porträts (s/w) 24 cm txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "In June 1609, two judges left Bordeaux for a territory at the very edge of their jurisdiction, a Basque-speaking province on the Atlantic coast called the Pays de Labourd. In four months, they executed up to 80 women and men for the crime of witchcraft, causing a wave of suspects to flee into Spain and sparking terror there. Witnesses, many of them children, described lurid tales of cannibalism, vampirism, and demonic sex. One of the judges, Pierre de Lancre, published a sensationalist account of this diabolical netherworld. With other accounts seemingly destroyed, this witch-hunt - France's largest - has always been seen through de Lancres eyes. The narrative, re-told over the centuries, is that of a witch-hunt caused by a bigoted outsider. Newly discovered evidence paints a very different, still darker picture, revealing a secret history underneath de Lancres well-known tale. Far from an outside imposition, witchcraft was a home-grown problem. Panic had been building up over a number of years and the region was fractured by factionalism and a struggle over scarce resources. The Basque Witch-Hunt reveals that de Lancre was no outsider; he was a local partisan, married into the Basque nobility. Living at the Franco-Spanish border, the Basques were victims of geography. Geo-politics caused a local conflict which made the witch-hunt inevitable. The same forces eventually sent thousands of religious refugees from Spain to France where they, in turn, became new objects of popular fear and anger. The Basque witch-hunt is justly infamous. This book shows that almost everything historians thought they knew about it is wrong." Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe, epdf 9781350441514 Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe, ebook 9781350441521 |
| spellingShingle | Machielsen, Jan 1984- The Basque witch-hunt a secret history |
| title | The Basque witch-hunt a secret history |
| title_auth | The Basque witch-hunt a secret history |
| title_exact_search | The Basque witch-hunt a secret history |
| title_full | The Basque witch-hunt a secret history Jan Machielsen |
| title_fullStr | The Basque witch-hunt a secret history Jan Machielsen |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Basque witch-hunt a secret history Jan Machielsen |
| title_short | The Basque witch-hunt |
| title_sort | the basque witch hunt a secret history |
| title_sub | a secret history |
| work_keys_str_mv | AT machielsenjan thebasquewitchhuntasecrethistory |