A circle with a left pointing chevron. An engraving from Urbain Grandier et les Possidtes de Loudun by Dr. Gabriel Legu6. THE DEVILS OF LOUBUN CHATTO WiNDUS LONDON. x x x x x x x 2x. (3 of ) Flip left. Flip right. One-page view. · A remarkable true story of religious and sexual obsession, The Devils of Loudon is considered by many to be Brave New World author Aldous Huxley's nonfiction masterpiece. Related collections and offersBrand: HarperCollins Publishers. · Rating details · 2, ratings · reviews. In Urbain Grandier, a handsome and dissolute priest of the parish of Loudun was tried, tortured and burnt at the stake. He had been found guilty of conspiring with the devil to seduce an entire convent of nuns in what was the most sensational case of mass possession and sexual hysteria in history/5(K).
In Urbain Grandier, a handsome and dissolute priest of the parish of Loudun was tried, tortured and burnt at the stake. He had been found guilty of conspiring with the devil to seduce an entire convent of nuns in what was the most sensational case of mass possession and sexual hysteria in history. Grandier maintained his innocence to the end and four years after his death the nuns were. The Devils of Loudun is a non-fiction novel by Aldous Huxley. It is a historical narrative of supposed demonic possession, religious fanaticism, sexual repression, and mass hysteria that occurred in seventeenth-century France surrounding unexplained events that took place in the small town of Loudun. It centers on Roman Catholic priest Urbain Grandier and an entire convent of Ursuline. A circle with a left pointing chevron. An engraving from Urbain Grandier et les Possidtes de Loudun by Dr. Gabriel Legu6. THE DEVILS OF LOUBUN CHATTO WiNDUS LONDON. x x x x x x x 2x. (3 of ) Flip left. Flip right. One-page view.
The Devils of Loudun by Aldous Huxley. A gripping biography by the author of Brave New World. In Urbain Grandier, a handsome and dissolute priest of the parish of Loudun was tried, tortured and burnt at the stake. He had been found guilty of conspiring with the devil to seduce an entire convent of nuns. Grandier maintained his innocence to the end but four years after his death the nuns were still being subjected to exorcisms to free them from their demonic bondage. novel by Aldous Huxley For the opera, see The Devils of Loudun. The Devils of Loudun First edition AuthorAldous Huxley Cover artistVal Biro CountryUnited Kingdom LanguageEnglish SubjectHistory, biography Published Media typePrint The Devils of Loudun is a non-fiction novel by Aldous Huxley. The Devils of LoudunAppendix. In this short text, Aldous Huxley puts forward the hypothesis that the evils we ascribe to religious intolerance and obscurantism are instead a product of human nature under specific circumstances, namely the existence of a totalitarian manipulative power.
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