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Darren Oldridge is Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Worcester. He has written extensively on religion and belief in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. His most recent publications include The Supernatural in Tudor and Stuart England (2016) and Strange Histories: The toon meer Trial of the Pig, the Walking Dead, and Other Matters of Fact from the Medieval and Renaissance Worlds (2nd edn, 2018). toon minder

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This work traces the history and evolution of thinking about the devil in England during the period of the Protestant Reformation. It focuses mainly on the view of the Protestants, particularly the Puritans, and spends too little time on the Church of England, which was really the dominant church throughout that period. One of the better things about the book is that he differentiates between what the clergy and the hierarchy thought, and the actual practice of the ordinary people, who often weren't all that affected by what the church thought, and held onto their ancient beliefs, often an oddball mix of Catholic ritual, pagan symbolism, and Protestant thought. I was surprised to find out how uneasy the Protestant's were with the thought of the devil as a flesh-and-blood being; I was brought up on that sort of devil my entire Protestant childhood. Now I have some idea of the world in which such ideas formed and evolved.… (meer)
 
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Devil_llama | May 23, 2017 |
These books are deceptively small: one thinks that a decent afternoon will see them off but, they are incredibly meaty. In a mere 105 pages, this book gives one a history of the Devil, how we see him today and the reasons that he is still relevant today. You will not agree with everything in this little tome, but it certainly gets the old grey matter working harder than many of those thousand page epics.

Now, all you have to decide, is whether this is a true depiction of this title, or has the Devil tempted me to lie so that you will be disappointed?… (meer)
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the.ken.petersen | Sep 20, 2012 |
excellent anthology of papers by historians of Witchhunting
 
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AdocentynLibrary | Jun 10, 2012 |

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