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The Devil in the Middle Ages
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Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY, 1984.  ISBN 0-8014-1503-9.  Hard cover, 356 pages including Essay on the Sources, Bibliography, and Index.  Red boards show light edge wear, corners and spine ends lightly bumped; binding sound with headbands and a very slight lean.  Dust jacket shows edge and cover wear, creases, rubs, short tears and small losses; repaired tears on verso.  Prior owner’s name inked at top of title page; remainder of interior clean and unmarked.  Black & white illustrations throughout.  ‘Drawing on an impressive array of sources from popular religion, art, literature, and drama, as well as from scholastic philosophy, mystical theology, homiletics, and hagiographies Russell provides a detailed treatment of Christian diabology in the Middle Ages.  Although he focuses primarily on Western Christian thought, Russell also includes, for the sake of comparison, material on the concept of the devil in Greek Orthodoxy during the Byzantine period as well as in Muslim thought.’ (from front flap)

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