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- catalog abstract ""According to Christian theology, fallen angels hold key similarities to human beings because they share our outcast condition. Cast to Earth and wandering in search of respite, their chief activity is their engagement in dialogue with humanity. 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."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12350738.
- catalog created "2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2001.".
- catalog description ""According to Christian theology, fallen angels hold key similarities to human beings because they share our outcast condition. Cast to Earth and wandering in search of respite, their chief activity is their engagement in dialogue with humanity. 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."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-251) and index.".
- catalog description "The devils' perverted syllogism : Prierio's De strigimagis -- The word's "ceremonies" : natural and unnatural language according to de Moura's De Ensalmis -- To vomit the name of the morning star : creation as metaphor in Menghi and Polidori's Thesaurus exorcismorum -- Walking in the garden of Purgatory : the discourse of the mind in the probation of St. Maria Maddalena de' Pazzi -- To dream insomnia : human mind and demonic enlightenment in Cardano's Metoposcopia -- The epic triumph of the church, its melancholy, and the persistence of sodom : a conclusion.".
- catalog extent "x, 260 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0226501329 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Chicago : University of Chicago Press,".
- catalog subject "133.4/2/09 21".
- catalog subject "BF1511 .M34 2001".
- catalog subject "Demonology History of doctrines.".
- catalog tableOfContents "The devils' perverted syllogism : Prierio's De strigimagis -- The word's "ceremonies" : natural and unnatural language according to de Moura's De Ensalmis -- To vomit the name of the morning star : creation as metaphor in Menghi and Polidori's Thesaurus exorcismorum -- Walking in the garden of Purgatory : the discourse of the mind in the probation of St. Maria Maddalena de' Pazzi -- To dream insomnia : human mind and demonic enlightenment in Cardano's Metoposcopia -- The epic triumph of the church, its melancholy, and the persistence of sodom : a conclusion.".
- catalog title "Satan's rhetoric : a study of Renaissance demonology / Armando Maggi.".
- catalog type "text".