The Routledge History of the Devil in the Western Tradition

Richard Raiswell is Professor of History at the University of Prince Edward Island, Canada. He has published works on demon possession, proof in witchcraft cases, rhetoric and demonism, and on demonism and colonialism. His most recent book is The Medieval Devil: A Reader (trans. and edit. with David Winter, 2022). Michelle D. Brock is Professor of History at Washington and Lee University, USA. She has published works on witchcraft and demonology, religious identity, and women and gender in early modern Scotland. Her most recent book is Plagues of the Heart: Crisis and Covenanting in a Seventeenth-Century Scottish Town (2024). David R. Winter is Professor of History at Brandon University, Canada. His books include The Llanthony Stories (2021) and The Medieval Devil: A Reader (ed., and trans., with Richard Raiswell 2022). He is currently working on a translation of 16th-century Icelandic bishop, Oddur Einarsson’s Descriptio qualiscunque Islandiae.

1: Satan in Biblical Literature

Justin Jeffcoat Schedtler

2: The Myth of the Devil in the Early Church

Archie T. Wright

3: Experiences of Evil: The Devil in the Early Middle Ages

Peter Dendle

4: The Devil Theorised and Rationalised

Christopher S. Mackay

5: Devils, Community and its Boundaries

Michael D. Bailey

6: Placing Satan

Eileen Gardiner

7: The Devil’s Minions

David R. Winter

8: Satan and the Divine Plan: Politics, the Devil and the End of Days

Arthur H. Williamson

9: Producing Devil Knowledge: Experience, Theory and Evidence

Richard Raiswell

10: Communicating the Devil

Marion Gibson

11: Devil Finders

Jan Machielsen

12: Rituals of Contamination, Purification and Eradication

Ismael del Olmo

13: The Devil and Statecraft

Gary K. Waite

14: Satan, Sex and Gender in Early Modern Europe

Erika Gasser

15: Seeing Satan

Linda C. Hults

16: The Devil and Colonialism

Jutta Wimmler

17: “Evil and desirable”: Gothic Inversion and the Satanic Monster in 18th- and 19th-Century Fiction

Miranda Corcoran

18: The Devil, Protest and the Age of Revolution

Per Faxneld

19: The Devil and War, 1600-1920

David R. Lawrence

20: Devil, Temptation, Conscience, Emotion

Charlotte-Rose Millar

21: Conjuring the Devil: The Cinematic Satan, 1899-2020

W. Scott Poole

22: Humanising the Devil, c. 1850-2000

Karl Bell

23: The Emergence of a Satan Problem

Bill Ellis

24: Communities, Purity and Conspiracy

Sarah Hughes

25: Demons, Missionaries and Migrants

Johanneke Kroesbergen-Kamps

26: The Digital Devil

Philip L. Frana

27: Into the 21st Century

Robert L. Ivie