God has one book [the Bible), and the devil has five in this colorful series on the philosophy, theology, art, literature and popular culture of Christian demonology. “This series constitutes the most complete historical study ever made of the figure called the second most famous personage in Christianity.” GR
Publisher: Cornell University
Paperback: 276 pages
God has one book [the Bible), and the devil has five in this colorful series on the philosophy, theology, art, literature and popular culture of Christian demonology. “This series constitutes the most complete historical study ever made of the figure called the second most famous personage in Christianity.” GR
Publisher: Cornell University
Paperback: 258 pages
God has one book [the Bible), and the devil has five in this colorful series on the philosophy, theology, art, literature and popular culture of Christian demonology. “This series constitutes the most complete historical study ever made of the figure called the second most famous personage in Christianity.” GR
Publisher: Cornell University
Paperback: 356 pages
God has one book [the Bible), and the devil has five in this colorful series on the philosophy, theology, art, literature and popular culture of Christian demonology. “This series constitutes the most complete historical study ever made of the figure called the second most famous personage in Christianity.” GR
Publisher: Cornell University
Paperback: 333 pages
God has one book [the Bible), and the devil has five in this colorful series on the philosophy, theology, art, literature and popular culture of Christian demonology. “This series constitutes the most complete historical study ever made of the figure called the second most famous personage in Christianity.” GR
Publisher: Cornell University
Paperback: 288 pages
Expert on the devil turns his pen to Satan’s female disciples. Sexist Christianity combines with secular mythology to create “the witch,” a wholly fabricated reading of female nature that caused thousands of innocent women to be tortured and killed, some for the mere ‘sin’ of having a wart in the wrong place. On coupling with demons: “The new dimension of ritual intercourse had further significance. Though demons could act at will as either incubi or sucubi, ritual coupling was usually ascribed to women rather than to men. This is because the popular imagination made the devil, like God, masculine, although Christian philosophy considered demons, like angels, sexless; and because the ancient Pauline-patristic tradition judged the female sex to be weaker than the male physically, mentally and morally. William of Auvergne argued that it was women rather than men who deluded themselves into believing that they rode out at night because their minds were feebler and more subject to illusion.” GR
Publisher: Cornell University
Paperback: 394 pages
“Explores the historical roots of Americans' understanding of madness today. Drawing on a rich array of sources, the authors interweave the perceptions of medical practicioners, the mentally ill and their families, and journalists, poets, novelists and artists. As they trace successive ways of explaining madness and treating those judged insane, Gamwell and Tomes vividly depict the political and cultural dimensions of American attitudes toward mental illness. Integrated into the narrative are evocative illustrations—many in color—including previously unpublished artworks and pictures of medical artifacts from archives, museums and private collections across the country.”
Publisher: Cornell University
Hardback: 192 pages
Illustrated
Five essays on “the anxieties of self-presentation, the strategies we adopt to avoid loss of face in our routine social encounters, and the emotions—namely, humiliation, shame and embarrassment… “ We grovel, we crawl, we debase ourselves, wailing and begging. It’s grotesque. An Icelandic saga illustrates our need for these emotional theatrics: “It involves dismembering corpses for use in a ceremony that compels a higher-status person to take vengeance on a corpse. In that ceremony the threat of shame is made explicit by the person (usually a woman) bearing the pieces of the dead man: ‘If you don’t take revenge, you will be an object of contempt to all men.’ This is the ultimate in grotesquerie, but the grotesque and the dark comic world to which it belongs is… the defining substance of the humiliating.” It’s a good thing! GR
Publisher: Cornell University
Paperback: 270 pages