Satan the Heretic: The Birth of Demonology in the Medieval West

by Alain Boureau

Book Overview

Before the end of the thirteenth century, theologians had little interest in demons, but with Thomas Aquinas and his formidable "Treatise on Evil" in 1272, everything changed. In Satan the Heretic, Alain Boureau trains his skeptical eye not on Satan or Satanism, but on the birth of demonology and the sudden belief in the power of demons who inhabited Satan's Court, setting out to understand not why people believed in demons, but why theologians--especially...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226067483
• ISBN13: 9780226067483
• Release Date: November 2006
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 255 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.6" x 8.8"