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Dictionnaire Infernal: Repertoire Universel des Etres, des Personnages, des Livres, des Faits et des Choses

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Dictionnaire Infernal: Repertoire Universel des Etres, des Personnages, des Livres, des Faits et des Choses
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Jacques-Albin-Simon Collin de Plancy
SeriesCambridge Library Collection - Spiritualism and Esoteric Knowledge
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:602
Dimensions(mm): Height 234,Width 156
ISBN/Barcode 9781108027250
Audience
Professional & Vocational
Illustrations Worked examples or Exercises

Publishing Details

Publisher Cambridge University Press
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publication Date 19 May 2011
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

Immensely popular in nineteenth-century France, this substantial book went through five editions between 1818 and 1863. It is an A-Z encyclopedia of the occult sciences, listing notable practitioners and books, superstitions, demons, spirits and other phenomena associated with magic, divination, sooth-saying and the supernatural. Its author, the prolific Collin de Plancy (1794-1881), moved to Paris in 1812. He owned a bookshop and speculated in property, a venture which resulted in his exile to Brussels. In 1837, he returned to Paris, rejected his earlier anticlericalism, and converted to Catholicism. The preface to the 1845 edition of his Dictionnaire Infernal, reissued here, claims its purpose is to refute error, banish superstition, and explain literary symbols and imagery.Significantly, the preface and the book's concluding paragraph affirm the Church's role as a source of truth, and the book carries the approval of the archbishop of Paris.