The Devil and Demonism in Early Modern England
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: February 20, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 350
ISBN-13: 9780521802369
Subjects: British & Irish history: c 1500 to c 1700; Western Europe - General; Europe - Great Britain - General; Demonology; History; History - General History; History: World; British Isles; Western Continental Europe; Christianity - History - Protestant; History / Great Britain; 16th century; 17th century; Devil; England; History of doctrines
First sentence: Baudelaire's famous comment - that the Devil's best trick was to convince mankind that he did not exist - was written in the hindsight of the scientific revolution and the Enlightenment that were believed to have rendered Satan a rather unworthy hangover from a more primitive age.
Notes: Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History