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Sorcellerie et justice criminelle - Le Parlement de Paris (16e-18e siecles) (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Sorcellerie et justice criminelle - Le Parlement de Paris (16e-18e siecles) (Hardcover, New Ed)
Series: Variorum Collected Studies
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The Parlement of Paris was the largest secular court in
Christendom. Although its criminal archives have been preserved
virtually intact, historians of the period of the great witch
trials, as well as scholars of the Ancien Regime in general, have
been discouraged by the notorious difficulties of research into
them, and have effectively avoided these records. Alfred Soman was
the first historian to have undertaken the task. In the fifteen
articles republished here, which include both detailed
investigations of particular cases and broad-ranging overviews, he
contends that criminal justice in the 16th- and 17th-century France
was far more humane and less severe than traditional assumptions
would suggest. As early as 1588, the High Court began to take steps
to restrain indiscriminate witch hunting, particularly in the
eastern provinces where prosecutions were instigated not in
conformity with, but in defiance of, the highest judicial authority
in the land. Le Parlement de Paris, la plus grande cour de justice
de l'Occident, nous a legue ses archives criminelles quasiment
intactes. Pourtant les historiens des proces de sorcellerie, ainsi
que les specialistes des aspects institutionnels et sociaux de
l'Ancien Regime, decourages par les difficultes notoires de la
recherche, ont evite l'exploitation de ces documents. Alfred Soman
est le premier chercheur A en avoir releve de defi. Dans cette
serie de quinze articles, qui comprennent des enquAtes detailles,
ainsi que des essais de synthese, il soutient que l'ancienne
justice a ete beaucoup plus clemente et moins 'injuste' que de
vieilles idees reAues ne le pretendent. Des 1588, la Haute Cour
commenAa A reprimer les nombreuses poursuites pour faits de
sorcellerie, plus particulierement dans l'Est du royaume, oA(1)
certains sieges subalternes entamaient des actions criminelles
intempestatives, prenant le contre-pied de la politique mise en
place par le Pouvoir judiciaire central.
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