Title: The devil, heresy, and witchcraft in the Middle Ages : essays in honor of Jeffrey B. Russell /
Authors: Ferreiro, Alberto.; Russell, Jeffrey Burton
Publisher: Brill,
Year: 1998
Subjects: Russell, Jeffrey Burton; Christian heresies History; Witchcraft Europe History.; Devil History of doctrines; Witchcraft history; Christianity history; Europe Church history
Contents: 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.