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Feb 23, 2022 · True to its subtitle, Pandemonium is more a history of demonology than it is of individual demons. Certainly, all that you would expect is there in terms of demonic hierarchies, ancient grimoires with their incantations, and the conjurers who garnered a reputation for working in the occult arts.
The idea of the demonic, it will argue, cuts across not only the early modern literature of magic and witchcraft but also that of art, making possible a kind of mutual refraction that illuminates both. In one direction, the figure of the painter provides a function for the demonic magician.
Jul 10, 2017 · What sets de Plancy’s work apart is his frighteningly surreal illustrations—the devils that make up his occult bestiary are some of the most evocative in the history of demonic literature.
- Eric Grundhauser
Between 1500 and 1660 the medieval concept of demonology remained largely intact. It was shaped by St Augustine’s (354–430) idea that interactions between demons and humans were based on a contract, either explicit or implicit.
- Wolfgang Behringer
- 2007
Feb 23, 2023 · Reading medieval chronicles or chivalric literature, the chansons de geste which flourished from the twelfth century onwards, reveals a world where the intervention of demonic spirits or other supernatural beings in everyday life was commonplace.
In effect, The Science of Demons uses the model of the Damned Art to explore where the study of demonology has led since 1997. Dr Machielsen adds: ‘Thinking with Demons was an 800-page tour de force that showed us that there was no one sort of demonology, but that early modern writers were interested in it for all sorts of political ...
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This chapter aims to explore both how attitudes to and ideas about demons were shared across religious cultures, and also where religious and philosophical thinkers diverged in their accounts of the origins and activities of the demons.
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