Identifier: sciliteratur00jaco (find matches)
Title: Science and literature in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
Year: 1878 (1870s)
Authors: Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884
Subjects: Middle Ages Renaissance Science, Medieval Literature, Medieval
Publisher: London : Bickers and Son
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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of theoccult arts. They must not, therefore, be confounded with the sorcerers orenchanters, who paid dearly for their sinister celebritj, and who were
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Fig. 162.—Dragons.—After Miniatures in the Book of the Marvels of tho World.—Manuscriptof the Fourteenth Century.—National Library, Paris. punished with death for their misdeeds. Amongst the latter were JacquesDulot, who during the reign of Philippe le Del killed himself in prison,after his wife had been burnt ajive; Paviot, surntimcd the Butcher, whoperished at the stake, while his ticmmplice, luiguerrand do ^larigny, washung in chains at Monlfaucon ; Jean de P);ir, also roiidciiiurd to tlie stakeas a necromancer and an invoker of the devil, at the end (if the fuurfeenthcentury; and, most notable of all, the prototype of the legendary liluebeard,the execrable Gilles de Laval, called :Marshal de Piaiz (or Pietz), who, inconcert with a Florentine sorcerer ntnned Irelati, dabbled in necromancyand magic during his horrible debauches at his castles of Machccoul andChantoce, in Brittany. THE OCCULT SCIENCES. The occult sciences had maintained their prestige up to the dawn of theRen

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