Charity as Healing: Dealing with Demonic Possession in Seventeenth-Century France

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3 février 2020

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Natacha Klein Käfer, « Charity as Healing: Dealing with Demonic Possession in Seventeenth-Century France », Centre for Privacy Studies, ID : 10670/1.3dnf3q


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Last October, the Centre for Privacy Studies organised a symposium in collaboration with the Centre de recherche du château de Versailles, called “Conspicuous Privacy: Charity in Versailles under Louis XIV”. The idea behind this event was to tackle the conflicting role of charity in the court of Louis XIV. Charitable acts were expected, as a Christian duty, to be performed humbly in private. However, at the same time, they were used as a tool for ostentation and political manoeuvre. As the ev...

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