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Sébastien Michaëlis
Sébastien Michaelis was a French inquisitor and prior of the Dominican order who lived during the late 16th and early 17th centuries. His ''Histoire admirable de la possession et conversion d'une penitente'' (1612) includes a classification of demons which has passed into general use in esoteric literature. Early career Michaelis was vice-inquisitor in Avignon during the 1580s and was involved in a number of witch trials: a series of cases in 1581 and 1582 led to at least fourteen women being convicted and burnt. In 1587 he published a tract on demons called ''Pneumologie: Discours des esprits''. By 1610 he was prior of the Dominican community at Saint-Maxim near Aix-en-Provence. Aix-en-Provence Possessions ''See also'' Aix-en-Provence possessions In 1610 Michaelis became involved in a case of demonic possession at the Ursuline convent at Aix-en-Provence. This began when Sebastian AmirJean-Baptiste Romillondiagnosed one of the nuns, a young girl of noble birth from Marseille ...
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Rosier (surname)
Rosier is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * A. J. Rosier (1880–1932), American politician * Andrée Rosier (born 1978), French chef * Bertie Rosier (1893–1939), English footballer * Bruce Rosier (born 1928), Australian Anglican bishop * Cathy Rosier (1945–2004), Martiniquaise model and actress * Diego Rosier (born 1994), South African cricketer * Evan Rosier, fictional character in the Harry Potter universe * Frederick Rosier (1915–1998), Welsh Royal Air Force commander * Jacqueline Beaugé-Rosier (born 1932), Haitian–Canadian educator and writer * James Rosier (1573–1609), English explorer * Jean-Louis Rosier (1925–2011), French racing driver * Joan Rosier-Jones (born 1940), New Zealand writer and teacher * Joseph Rosier (1870–1951), American politician * Joseph-Bernard Rosier (1804–1880), French playwright and librettist * Kevin Rosier (1962–2015), American kickboxer, boxer and mixed martial artist * Louis Rosier (1905–1956), French ...
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Witch Hunters
A witch hunter is a person who seeks witches in a witch-hunt. Witch hunter or variations may also refer to: Literature * ''Witch Hunter'' (manhwa), Korean manhwa series * ''The Witch Hunter'' (novel), by Bernard Knight * ''The Witch Hunters'' (novel), by Steve Lyons Film * ''Witch Hunter Robin'', a 2002 anime series * ''El Cazador de la Bruja'' (English: ''The Hunter of the Witch''), a 2007 anime series * '' Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters'', a 2012 film * ''The Last Witch Hunter'', a 2015 American film starring Vin Diesel Music * ''Witch Hunter'' (album) (1985), by Grave Digger * ''The Witch Hunter'' (1993), album by Shinjuku Thief Other uses * '' Witch Hunter: The Invisible World'', a 2007 role-playing game See also * Witch hunt (other) * Witch trial (other) * Witchfinder (other) A Witchfinder is a person who seeks witches in a witch-hunt. Witchfinder may also refer to: * ''The Witchfinder'' (TV series), a 2022 British sitcom * "The Witchfinde ...
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French Dominicans
French (french: français(e), link=no) may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to France ** French language, which originated in France, and its various dialects and accents ** French people, a nation and ethnic group identified with France ** French cuisine, cooking traditions and practices Fortnite French places Arts and media * The French (band), a British rock band * "French" (episode), a live-action episode of ''The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!'' * ''Française'' (film), 2008 * French Stewart (born 1964), American actor Other uses * French (surname), a surname (including a list of people with the name) * French (tunic), a particular type of military jacket or tunic used in the Russian Empire and Soviet Union * French's, an American brand of mustard condiment * French catheter scale, a unit of measurement of diameter * French Defence, a chess opening * French kiss, a type of kiss involving the tongue See also * France (other) * Franch, a surname * French ...
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17th-century French Roman Catholic Priests
The 17th century lasted from January 1, 1601 ( MDCI), to December 31, 1700 ( MDCC). It falls into the early modern period of Europe and in that continent (whose impact on the world was increasing) was characterized by the Baroque cultural movement, the latter part of the Spanish Golden Age, the Dutch Golden Age, the French ''Grand Siècle'' dominated by Louis XIV, the Scientific Revolution, the world's first public company and megacorporation known as the Dutch East India Company, and according to some historians, the General Crisis. From the mid-17th century, European politics were increasingly dominated by the Kingdom of France of Louis XIV, where royal power was solidified domestically in the civil war of the Fronde. The semi-feudal territorial French nobility was weakened and subjugated to the power of an absolute monarchy through the reinvention of the Palace of Versailles from a hunting lodge to a gilded prison, in which a greatly expanded royal court could be more easil ...
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16th-century French Roman Catholic Priests
The 16th century begins with the Julian year 1501 ( MDI) and ends with either the Julian or the Gregorian year 1600 ( MDC) (depending on the reckoning used; the Gregorian calendar introduced a lapse of 10 days in October 1582). The 16th century is regarded by historians as the century which saw the rise of Western civilization and the Islamic gunpowder empires. The Renaissance in Italy and Europe saw the emergence of important artists, authors and scientists, and led to the foundation of important subjects which include accounting and political science. Copernicus proposed the heliocentric universe, which was met with strong resistance, and Tycho Brahe refuted the theory of celestial spheres through observational measurement of the 1572 appearance of a Milky Way supernova. These events directly challenged the long-held notion of an immutable universe supported by Ptolemy and Aristotle, and led to major revolutions in astronomy and science. Galileo Galilei became a champion ...
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Louviers Possessions
The possessions at Louviers (Normandy, France), similar to those in Aix-en-Provence, occurred at the Louviers Convent in 1647. As with both the Aix case and its later counterpart in Loudun, the conviction of the priests involved hinged on the confessions of supposed possessed demoniacs. The source for information on the subject is in large part a book entitled ''Histoire de Magdelaine Bavent, Religieuse de Louviers, avec son interrogatoir, etc.'' (History of Madeleine Bavent, a Nun of Louviers, together with her Examination, etc.), 4to: Rouen, 1652 from an interview with Madeleine Bavent by an Oratorian. Accusations Madeleine Bavent was born at Rouen in 1607. An orphan, at the age of twelve she was bound as an apprentice to a linenworker, whose business was dependent on the Church's patronage. According to historian Jules Michelet, the confessor of the establishment, probably drugged the apprentices with something like Atropa belladonna and led them to believe that he was conduc ...
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Loudun Possessions
The Loudun possessions, known in French language, French as the Possessed of Loudun Affair (''Affaire des possédées de Loudun''), was a notorious Witch-hunt, witchcraft trial that took place in Loudun, Kingdom of France, in 1634. A convent of Ursulines, Ursuline nun, nuns said they had been visited and Spirit possession, possessed by demons. Following an investigation by the Catholic Church, a local priest named Urbain Grandier was accused of summoning the evil spirits. He was eventually convicted of the crimes of Magic (supernatural), sorcery and Death by burning, burned at the stake. The case contains similar themes to other witchcraft trials that occurred throughout western Europe in the 17th century, such as the Aix-en-Provence possessions (France) in 1611 or the Pendle witches (England) in 1612 before reaching the European colonization of the Americas, New World by the Salem witch trials, 1690s. Background In its continuing efforts to consolidate and centralize power, the C ...
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Satanism And Witchcraft
__NOTOC__ ''Satanism and Witchcraft'' is a book by Jules Michelet on the history of witchcraft. Originally published in Paris as ''La Sorcière'' in 1862, the first English translation appeared in London a year later. Views According to Michelet, medieval witchcraft was an act of popular rebellion against the oppression of feudalism and the Roman Catholic Church. This rebellion took the form of a secret religion inspired by paganism and fairy beliefs, organized by a woman who became its leader. The participants in the secret religion met regularly at the witches' sabbath and the Black Mass. Michelet's account is openly sympathetic to the sufferings of peasants and women in the Middle Ages. Michelet’s authority on the history of the Middle Ages, and insistence that history should concentrate on ‘the people, and not only its leaders or its institutions’ placed him ahead of his time as a godfather of micro-history. Michelet was one of the first few people to attempt to show th ...
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Jules Michelet
Jules Michelet (; 21 August 1798 – 9 February 1874) was a French historian and an author on other topics whose major work was a history of France and its culture. His aphoristic style emphasized his anti-clerical republicanism. In Michelet's 1855 work, ''Histoire de France'' (History of France), he adopted the term "rebirth" that was used first in a work published in 1550 by the Italian art historian Giorgio Vasari. The term was used by Vasari to describe the advent of a new manner of painting that began with the work of Giotto, as the "rebirth (''rinascita'') of the arts." Michelet thereby became the first historian to use and define the French translation of the term, ''renaissance'',Murray, P. and Murray, L. (1963) ''The Art of the Renaissance''. London: Thames & Hudson (World of Art), p. 9. to identify the period in Europe's cultural history that followed the Middle Ages. Historian François Furet wrote that Michelet's ''History of the French Revolution'' (1847) remai ...
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William Aspley
William Aspley (died 1640) was a London publisher of the Elizabethan, Jacobean, and Caroline eras. He was a member of the publishing syndicates that issued the First Folio and Second Folio collections of Shakespeare's plays, in 1623 and 1632. Career The publisher was the son of a William Aspley of Royston, Cambridgeshire; he served a nine-year apprenticeship under George Bishop that started at Christmas 1587. Aspley's professional career was notable for its longevity: he became a "freeman" (a full member) of the Stationers Company on 4 April 1597, and remained active for the next four decades. He served in the office of Master of the Company in 1640, the year he died. His shops were located 1) at the sign of the Tiger's Head, and 2) at the sign of the Parrot, both in St. Paul's Churchyard. (The Parrot was on the same block as the shop of First Folio colleague Edward Blount, at the sign of the Black Bear.) Shakespeare Aspley's connection with the Shakespeare canon began in 1 ...
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