World & Society

History & Philosophy

Punitive fire in modern times

Émission

Babylone
02 September 2013

Michel Porret

Lettres, UNIGE

Under the Ancien Régime, the penal state used fire to atone for heretics, witches and sorcerers, and to incinerate "dangerous" books.

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