TY - BOOK AU - Huot,Hervé TI - Ghosts or No Ghosts: That Was the Question PY - 2003///. N1 - 87 N2 - In 16th century Europe, some specialists in natural sciences, physicians, Protestant theologians cast doubt on the existence and action in human affairs of angels, demons, and departed souls. A French erudite, Pierre Le Loyer, defends traditional catholic convictions about those Spirits in the last years of the century and then develops what he calls a Spectres' science. He tries so to register the examination of Spirits in human sciences, which progress independently of theology in the 17th century UR - https://shs.cairn.info/journal-ethnologie-francaise-2003-4-page-575?lang=en&redirect-ssocas=7080 ER -