Terror of History: Mystics, Heretics, and Witches in the Western Tradition

The Witches of Loudon (1x22)

Air date: Jan 01, 2002

An outline of the famous witchcraft trial of the clergyman Urbain Grandier in the city of Loudon in France. The lecture uses this case as a lens through which to examine the mentality and sexual mores of early modern Europeans, and concludes with a summation of the history of the witch craze.