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The Routledge History of the Devil in the Western Tradition

Beschreibung

Covering a period of two thousand years, this book offers an interdisciplinary exploration of the devil's role in the Western tradition and draws from history, religion, art, literature, media studies and anthropology to provide a multifaceted view of the devil over time.

Autor

Richard Raiswell is Professor of History at the University of Prince Edward Island, Canada. He has published works on demon possession, proof in witchcraft cases, rhetoric and demonism, and demonism and colonialism. His most recent book is The Medieval Devil: A Reader (trans. and ed. with David Winter, 2022). Michelle D. Brock is Professor of History at Washington and Lee University, USA. She has published works on witchcraft and demonology, religious identity, and women and gender in early modern Scotland. Her most recent book is Plagues of the Heart: Crisis and Covenanting in a Seventeenth-Century Scottish Town (2024). David R. Winter is Professor of History at Brandon University, Canada. His books include The Llanthony Stories (2021) and The Medieval Devil: A Reader (trans. and ed. with Richard Raiswell 2022). He is currently working on a translation of 16th-century Icelandic bishop Oddur Einarsson's Descriptio qualiscunque Islandiae.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 600
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Mai 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 36mm
• Gewicht: 1200g
• ISBN-13: 9780367561420
• ISBN-10: 0367561425
• Artikelnr.: 71809907