Satan the heretic
Subtitle: the birth of demonology in the medieval west
By: Alain Boureau ; translated by Teresa Lavender Fagan.
Edition: English-language ed.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Chicago, IL
Language: eng
Number of pages: 255
Description: "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 Pope John XXII - became so interested in the subject."--Jacket.