Satan's Rhetoric, A Study of Renaissance Demonolgy
Language: English
Published by University of Chicago Press, 2001
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Shows that Satan, the Tempter, speaks his language directly to the mind so as to make human beings understand his meaning and speak it for themselves. Illlustrated in b&w. Extensive footnotes. Biblio. Index. x, 260 pp. Fine Hardcover w/ Fine dj. Size: 8vo.
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- Title
- Satan's Rhetoric, A Study of Renaissance Demonolgy
- Author
- Armando Maggi
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Publication year
- 2001
- Condition
- New
- Dust jacket
- Fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0226501329
- ISBN 13
- 9780226501321
- Edition
- 1st Edition
With this probing new contribution to the study of Christianity, Armando Maggi examines this dialogue, exploring how evil spirits interacted with mankind during the early modern period. Reading innumerable treatises on demonology written during the Renaissance, including Thesaurus exorcismorum, the most important record of early modern exorcisms, Maggi finds repeated attempts to define the language exchanged between the fallen progeny of Adam, and the most notorious fallen angel of them all, Satan. Using points of departure taken from de Certeau and Lacan, Maggi shows that Satan articulates his language first and foremost in the mind. More than speaking, the devil tries to make human beings understand his language and speak it themselves. Through sodomites, infidels, and witches, then, the devil is able to infect humanity as it appropriates his seductive rhetoric.
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