Description: A consideration of the theme of demons as teachers in early English literature.
Brief description: CHRISTINA M. HECKMAN is Professor of English at Augusta University, Georgia.
Review Quotes: This book offers useful studies of the role of the demon-as-teacher in Old English literature. It demonstrates that education in the early Middle Ages was threatened by, but in need of, corruptive demons and their malign pedagogical and verbal art. It is a useful and forward thinking contribution to the subject of learning [..] in the period.-- "SPECULUM"