Dictionnaire Infernal - Repertoire Universel des Etres, des Personnages, des Livres, des Faits et des Choses (French, Paperback)

Immensely popular in nineteenth-century France, this substantial book went through five editions between 1818 and 1863. It is an A Z encyclopedia of the occult sciences, listing notable practitioners and books, superstitions, demons, spirits and other phenomena associated with magic, divination, sooth-saying and the supernatural. Its author, the prolific Collin de Plancy (1794 1881), moved to Paris in 1812. He owned a bookshop and speculated in property, a venture which resulted in his exile to Brussels. In 1837, he returned to Paris, rejected his earlier anticlericalism, and converted to Catholicism. The preface to the 1845 edition of his Dictionnaire Infernal, reissued here, claims its purpose is to refute error, banish superstition, and explain literary symbols and imagery.Significantly, the preface and the book's concluding paragraph affirm the Church's role as a source of truth, and the book carries the approval of the archbishop of Paris.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Cambridge Library Collection - Spiritualism and Esoteric Knowledge
Release date:	May 2011
First published:	December 2010
Authors:	Jacques-Albin-Simon Collin De Plancy
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 31mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	602
ISBN-13:	978-1-108-02725-0
Languages:	French
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > History of ideas, intellectual history
LSN:	1-108-02725-3
Barcode:	9781108027250

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