L'AUTEUR
Sonia PelletierA history and geography
teacher in Alsace, Sonia
Pelletier-Gautier is mostly
inspired by her university
researches in medieval and
regional history to outline a
very accurate picture of the
Germanic Roman Empire Society
at the awakening of Rhenan
humanism.
Rich with archaeological and
museum experiences, she also
published a number of articles
in newspapers and historical
magazines, taking part, as
well, in collective works,
such as the dictionary of
Alsacian biographies.
On top of that, her thesis was
awarded a prize by the
“Conseil Général du Haut
Rhin”, and published,
warranted by the “Société
Savante” of Eastern Regions.
Mixing up Rhenan forgotten of
famous actors with fiction but
credible characters, she
restores from the past the
fear of inquisition to
stimulate her contemporaries’
thinking about vanity of
certainties at a time that
could be theirs. |
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L'Inquisiteur et la Sorcière [978-2-35291-019-0]
20.00EUR 19.00EUR - 320 Pages 150 x 230
ISBN : 978-2-35291-019-0 Dilicom : 3012271090000
Roman Historique Collection Pierrefeu
Un fantastique procès en inquisition.
Une famille détruite, une ville en ébullition. December 1489. Christine Fritz was arrested for witchcraft. Helped by the Murbach priest, the lord of the city, the Dominican Ulrich Bichwiller, examines the case methodically and with integrity, strictly applying the inquisition laws, particularly for an eventual use of torture. About the case, plots of all kinds circulate rapidly in Guebwiller. The population, at once versatile and divided, in turns full of hatred or compassion, observes with anguish starvation coming up and the wolves entering the city. Neither the city council nor prayers are apt at stopping the plague. So far well considered and without problems, the Fritz Family questioned by the inquisitor and pointed out as having generated a witch, is to be inexorably sucked up by a wave of misfortune that no one can ever control. The Thibault son’s departure for Compostella is but a beginning for a long sequence of suffering. Will Christine be strong enough to fight for her life and her honour? Can Bichwiller be able to disentangle to subtle intricacies between real and false evidence? With a kind of realism drawn from documents of the time, this second volume of the “Inquisitor’s Dilemmas” questions the very notion of truth itself, and describes the development of an inquisition trial mixed up with the social, religious and artistic life of a small town of the Germanic Roman Empire. It also shows how the population, overwhelmed with appalling curses, can find motives to overcome difficult living in the will to punish symbolically guilty people.
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