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Tables of Contents for The Possession at Loudun
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
List of Illustrations
vii
Foreword
ix
Stephen Greenblatt
Translator's Acknowledgments
xiii
History Is Never Sure
1
10
How a Possession Is Born
11
12
The Magic Circle
23
12
The Discourse of Possession
35
17
The Accused: Urbain Grandier
52
13
Politics in Loudun: Laubardemont
65
12
Beginning the Judicial Inquiry
77
8
The Theater of the Possessed
85
24
The Medical Eye
109
13
A Teratology of Truth
122
30
The Imagination
122
16
The Liar
138
14
The Judgment of the Sorcerer
152
19
The Execution: Legend and History
171
10
After Death, Literature
181
18
The Time of Spirituality: Father Surin
199
14
The Triumph of Jeanne des Anges
213
14
Figures of the Other
227
2
Primary Sources and Bibliography
229
2
Notes
231
14
Index
245