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Mephistopheles

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Description for Mephistopheles Paperback. Num Pages: 336 pages, 26, 26 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: HRCM; HRQX5; HRQX9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 22. Weight in Grams: 532.

Mephistopheles is the fourth and final volume of a critically acclaimed history of the concept of the Devil. The series constitutes the most complete historical study ever made of the figure that has been called the second most famous personage in Christianity.In his first three volumes Jeffrey Burton Russell brought the history of Christian diabology to the end of the Middle Ages, showing the development of a degree of consensus, even in detail, on the concept of the Devil. Mephistopheles continues the story from the Reformation to the present, tracing the fragmentation of the tradition. Using examples from theology, philosophy, ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
352
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1990
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801497186
SKU
V9780801497186
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About Jeffrey Burton Russell
Jeffrey Burton Russell is Professor of History Emeritus at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Reviews for Mephistopheles
An excellent and important intellectual history.
Library Journal
It is more than the history of demonological imagination as it has been displayed for half a millennium in theological controversies, in poetry, novels, paintings, and witch trials: it is the history of European man trying to cope with the terrifying riddle of radical evil.... Both an extremely rich scholarly ... Read more

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