Description:
Drawing on an impressive array of sources from popular religion, art, literature, and drama, as well as from scholastic philosophy, mystical theology, homiletics, and hagiography, Russell provides a detailed treatment of Christian diabology in the Middle Ages.
Brief description: Jeffrey Burton Russell is Professor of History Emeritus at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Review Quotes:
An attractively written survey of the way the devil appears in art, literature and treatise, during the medieval period, with many signs of an engaging sense of personal commitment to the subject, and an attempt to show its contemporary relevance.
--John O. Ward "Journal of Religious History"