Devils of Loudun - Huxley Aldous
Devils of Loudun - Huxley Aldous In 1634 Urbain Grandier, a handsome and dissolute priest of the parish of Loudun was tried, tortured and burnt at the stake. Grandier maintained his innocence to the…
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Devils of Loudun - Huxley Aldous
In 1634 Urbain Grandier, a handsome and dissolute priest of the parish of Loudun was tried, tortured and burnt at the stake. Grandier maintained his innocence to the end and four years after his death the nuns were still being subjected to exorcisms to free them from their demonic bondage. 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.
Huxley's vivid account of this bizarre tale of religious and sexual obsession transforms our understanding of the medieval world.