1st Edition
The Routledge History of the Devil in the Western Tradition
Introduction
1: Satan in Biblical Literature
Justin Jeffcoat Schedtler
2: The Myth of the Devil in the Early Church
Archie T. Wright
3: Experiences of Evil: The Devil in the Early Middle Ages
Peter Dendle
4: The Devil Theorised and Rationalised
Christopher S. Mackay
5: Devils, Community and its Boundaries
Michael D. Bailey
6: Placing Satan
Eileen Gardiner
7: The Devil’s Minions
David R. Winter
8: Satan and the Divine Plan: Politics, the Devil and the End of Days
Arthur H. Williamson
9: Producing Devil Knowledge: Experience, Theory and Evidence
Richard Raiswell
10: Communicating the Devil
Marion Gibson
11: Devil Finders
Jan Machielsen
12: Rituals of Contamination, Purification and Eradication
Ismael del Olmo
13: The Devil and Statecraft
Gary K. Waite
14: Satan, Sex and Gender in Early Modern Europe
Erika Gasser
15: Seeing Satan
Linda C. Hults
16: The Devil and Colonialism
Jutta Wimmler
17: “Evil and desirable”: Gothic Inversion and the Satanic Monster in 18th- and 19th-Century Fiction
Miranda Corcoran
18: The Devil, Protest and the Age of Revolution
Per Faxneld
19: The Devil and War, 1600-1920
David R. Lawrence
20: Devil, Temptation, Conscience, Emotion
Charlotte-Rose Millar
21: Conjuring the Devil: The Cinematic Satan, 1899-2020
W. Scott Poole
22: Humanising the Devil, c. 1850-2000
Karl Bell
23: The Emergence of a Satan Problem
Bill Ellis
24: Communities, Purity and Conspiracy
Sarah Hughes
25: Demons, Missionaries and Migrants
Johanneke Kroesbergen-Kamps
26: The Digital Devil
Philip L. Frana
27: Into the 21st Century
Robert L. Ivie
Epilogue
Biography
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.
"The Routledge History of the Devil is essential reading for any student or scholar interested in this subject, along with those working in any of the disciplines represented across the chapters... Its theoretical approach offers an innovative way of studying the past— focusing on the anxieties, fears, and dark impulses that plagued communities— and provides a powerful lens through which to comprehend the multifaceted figure that is the Devil."
Brendan C. Walsh in Preternature: Critical and Historical Studies on the Preternatural, vol 15, no. 1.
"This book deserves a broad and interested readership."
Meret Fehlmann in Journal of Anomalistics/Zeitschrift für Anomalistik, vol. 25 (2).
