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The Devils of Loudun is a 1952 non-fiction novel by Aldous Huxley . Premise. It is a historical narrative of supposed demonic possession, religious fanaticism, sexual repression, and mass hysteria that occurred in 17th-century France surrounding unexplained events that took place in the small town of Loudun.
- Aldous Huxley
- 1952
The Devils of Loudun is a fascinating historical account, written like a fiction, detailing a scandalous affair in 1630s France. A priest is falsely accused of cursing a convent of nuns, causing them to be possessed by demons.
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Bibliografía. Referencias. Endemoniadas de Loudun. Apariencia. ocultar. El caso de las endemoniadas de Loudun es probablemente el más famoso caso de posesión diabólica colectiva que se conoce. Tuvo lugar en 1634 en la pequeña ciudad francesa de Loudun.
31 de mar. de 2014 · with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org. Title: The History of the Devils of Loudun, Volumes I-III. The Alleged Possession of the Ursuline Nuns, and the Trial. and Execution of Urbain Grandier, Told by an Eye-witness. Author: Unknown. Editor: Edmund Goldsmid. Translator: Edmund Goldsmid.
25 de sept. de 2012 · The devils of Loudun. by. Huxley, Aldous, 1894-1963. Publication date. 1952. Topics. Grandier, Urbain, 1590-1634, Couvent des Ursulines (Loudun, France), Demoniac possession. Publisher. New York] Harper.
The Devils of Loudun, the first and most popular of Penderecki's operas, is emblematic of the composer's interest in historical events of traumatic nature. As suggested by its title, the opera draws its story line from the 1632-38 mass demonic possession in the town of Loudun, France.
…most important later works are The Devils of Loudun (1952), a detailed psychological study of a historical incident in which a group of 17th-century French nuns were allegedly the victims of demonic possession, and The Doors of Perception (1954), a book about Huxley’s experiences with the hallucinogenic drug mescaline.
