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The devil, heresy, and witchcraft in the Middle Ages : essays in honor of Jeffrey B. Russell

Jeffrey B. Russell has written numerous books and articles studying heresy, heterodoxy and belief in magic, witchcraft and the Devil. To mark his retirement 17 scholars - historians of art, the church, religion, and ideas - have contributed papers to this volume." - publisher
Print Book, English, 1998
Brill, Leiden, 1998
Festschriften
xv, 388 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
9789004106109, 9004106103
38426132
Hospitals and poor relief in Ramon Llull's Majorca / Larry J. Simon
Elves in the Psalms? The experience of evil from a cosmic perspective / Karen Louise Jolly
"Simon Magus, dogs, and Simon Peter" / Alberto Ferreiro
Avenging the blood of children: anxiety over child victims and the origins of the European witch trials / Richard Kieckhefer
Teaching and preaching confession in thirteenth-century Paris / Alan E. Bernstein
Destruction of the flesh
salvation of the spirit: the paradoxes of torture in medieval Christian society / Edward Peters
Prophecy and order: mysticism and medieval cosmologies in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries / Cheryl A. Riggs
Medieval heretics or forerunners of the Reformation: the Protestant rewriting of the history of medieval heresy / Abraham Friesen
Cosmic and sexual love in renaissance thought: reflections on Marsilio Ficino, Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, and Leone Ebreo / Bernard McGinn. The Alfonsine tables and the end of the world: astrology and apocalyptic calculation in the later middle ages / Laura Smoller
Satan: making a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven / Neil Forsyth
Holiness and obedience: denouncement of twelfth-century Waldensian lay preaching / Beverly Mayne Kienzle
Lollard inquisitions: due and undue process / Henry Ansgar Kelly
"Englysch Laten" and "Franch": language as sign of evil in medieval English drama / Richard K. Emmerson
Heaven and fallen angels in Old English / Catharine Brown Tkacz
Peter the Venerable on the "diabolical heresy of the Saracens" / John Tolan
Nicolas Eymeric and the condemnation of orthodoxy / Gary Macy