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History of the Devil: From the Middle Ages to the Present [Minkštas viršelis]

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(University of Paris)
  • Formatas: Paperback / softback, 360 pages, aukštis x plotis x storis: 229x153x27 mm, weight: 526 g
  • Išleidimo metai: 31-Oct-2003
  • Leidėjas: Polity Press
  • ISBN-10: 0745628168
  • ISBN-13: 9780745628165
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History of the Devil: From the Middle Ages to the PresentDidesnis paveikslėlis
  • Formatas: Paperback / softback, 360 pages, aukštis x plotis x storis: 229x153x27 mm, weight: 526 g
  • Išleidimo metai: 31-Oct-2003
  • Leidėjas: Polity Press
  • ISBN-10: 0745628168
  • ISBN-13: 9780745628165
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Raktažodžiai:
This highly original and engaging book by French historian Robert Muchembled, is a journey through time and space in search of the changing perception and significance of the devil in Western culture.

  • An outstanding book about the changing perception and significance of the devil in Western culture.
  • Robert Muchembled is a well-known historian and an expert on witchcraft, whose work has already been translated into many languages.
  • The author highlights the way that the changing notion of evil is connected to other changes in society at large.
  • Draws on a wealth of examples, from the witch-hunts of the 15th and 16th centuries, to the films of Stanley Kubrick.

Recenzijos

"Only on one level a history of the Devil; on a deeper level it is a history of the shifting and fluctuating status the Devil has occupied in Western culture ... a valuable book, once one has recognized its unusual intentions." Richard Kieckhefer, Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft

Acknowledgements ix
Introduction: A Thousand Years of the Devil 1(8)
Satan Makes his Entry: Twelfth to Fifteenth Centuries
9(26)
Satan and the myth of primordial combat
10(2)
Good and bad devils
12(9)
Instilling fear: the diabolic obsession at the end of the Middle Ages
21(6)
The Evil One and the Beast
27(8)
The Night of the Sabbath
35(34)
Heresy
36(2)
From Waldensians to witches
38(6)
A hammer to crush the witches
44(2)
Satanic nudity
46(6)
The triumph of demon-mania
52(8)
The mark of the devil
60(9)
The Devil and the Body
69(39)
The magical body
70(4)
The female body
74(6)
Monsters and marvels
80(6)
The hell of sex
86(10)
Towards a history of the senses: the promotion of sight
96(3)
Towards a history of the senses: the demonizing of smell
99(9)
Satanic Literature and Tragic Culture: 1550--1650
108(40)
The fear of oneself
109(2)
Devil books in Protestant Germany
111(5)
The tragic culture in France
116(8)
Rosset, the devil and the rotting corpse
124(5)
Jean-Pierre Camus, or 'the spectacle of horror'
129(9)
Bloodcurdling tales: the devil in the fait divers
138(1)
The baroque and transgression
139(9)
The Twilight of the Devil: From Classicism to Romanticism
148(39)
Satan's final apotheosis
149(4)
The fragmented images of evil
153(8)
A disenchanted devil
161(6)
The symbolic transition: from Satan to Mephistopheles
167(7)
The role of fiction
174(7)
Beelzebub in love
181(6)
The Demon Within: Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
187(40)
Doctrinal permanencies
188(2)
Having fun with the devil: the Gothic novel and the frenetiques
190(7)
The rebel angel of the Satanists
197(7)
The children of the devil
204(4)
The diabolic unconscious
208(4)
'Taming the shadows'
212(5)
A paper devil?
217(10)
Pleasure or Terror: The Devil at the End of the Second Millennium
227(44)
The devil, probably . . . prudent exorcism
230(6)
'Devilish good': advertising, beer and the strip cartoon
236(9)
The expressionist devil: from The Golem to Dies Irae
245(5)
The film noir: horror, suspense and perversion
250(12)
America's demons
262(9)
Conclusion: Dancing with the Devil 271(8)
Notes 279(25)
Select Bibliography 304(18)
Select Filmography 322(10)
Index 332
Robert Muchembled is a professor of history at the University of Paris XIII.