Lynn Wood Mollenauer is Assistant Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington.

“Strange Revelations effectively explores the multiple ways in which power was exercised at the court of Louis XIV, focusing on the ‘hidden forms’ effected through poison and magic. Mollenauer does an excellent job of probing these issues through close analysis of the records left to us concerning the ‘Affair of the Poisons.'”—James R. Farr, Purdue University

• ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1.Investigating the Affair of the Poisons, 1676–16822.Medea and the Marquise: Understanding the Crime of Poison in Seventeenth-Century France3.The Criminal Magical Underworld of Paris4.The Renegade Priests of Paris and the Amatory Mass5.The Magic of Mistresses at the Court of Louis XIVConclusion: The End of Magic?NotesBibliographyIndex

Lynn Wood Mollenauer is Assistant Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington.

“Strange Revelations effectively explores the multiple ways in which power was exercised at the court of Louis XIV, focusing on the ‘hidden forms’ effected through poison and magic. Mollenauer does an excellent job of probing these issues through close analysis of the records left to us concerning the ‘Affair of the Poisons.'”—James R. Farr, Purdue University

• ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1.Investigating the Affair of the Poisons, 1676–16822.Medea and the Marquise: Understanding the Crime of Poison in Seventeenth-Century France3.The Criminal Magical Underworld of Paris4.The Renegade Priests of Paris and the Amatory Mass5.The Magic of Mistresses at the Court of Louis XIVConclusion: The End of Magic?NotesBibliographyIndex

Lynn Wood Mollenauer is Assistant Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington.

“Strange Revelations effectively explores the multiple ways in which power was exercised at the court of Louis XIV, focusing on the ‘hidden forms’ effected through poison and magic. Mollenauer does an excellent job of probing these issues through close analysis of the records left to us concerning the ‘Affair of the Poisons.'”—James R. Farr, Purdue University

• ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1.Investigating the Affair of the Poisons, 1676–16822.Medea and the Marquise: Understanding the Crime of Poison in Seventeenth-Century France3.The Criminal Magical Underworld of Paris4.The Renegade Priests of Paris and the Amatory Mass5.The Magic of Mistresses at the Court of Louis XIVConclusion: The End of Magic?NotesBibliographyIndex