Well-known for his historical accounts of Satan and hell, Jeffrey Burton Russell here explores th...

From the Preface:This book is intended as an investigation of the civilization of western Europe ...

In this book Jeffrey Burton Russell explores the many and complex reasons for the gradual erosion...

From the Introduction:The conceptual boundaries of this study...include all varieties of religiou...

Neither Christopher Columbus nor his contemporaries thought the earth was flat. Yet this curious ...

The study of the conflict between religious orthodoxy and heresy in the Middle Ages has long been...

Around the year 435 'just before the time of Saint Benedict 'a middle-aged man named Romanus felt...

Russell (History Univ. of Cal. at Santa Barbara) has written four scholarly books on the Devil fr...

The last in a series of four books telling the history of the concept of radical evil embodied in...

Drawing on an impressive array of sources from popular religion, art, literature, and drama, as w...

Seytanin en büyük zaferi herhalde var olmadigina dair modern dünyayi ikna etmis olmasidir. Oysaki...

While recounting how past generations have personified evil, Jeffrey Burton Russell deepens our u...