Front cover image for The Prince of Darkness : radical evil and the power of good in history

The Prince of Darkness : radical evil and the power of good in history

Print Book, English, 1992
Thames and Hudson, Ithaca, N.Y., 1992
xii, 288 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
9780801480560, 9780801420146, 0801480566, 0801420148
1012733930
Evil
The devil around the world
The good lord and the devil
Christ and the power of evil
Satan and heresy
Dualism and the desert
The classical Christian view
Lucifer popular and elite
Scholastics, poets, and dramatists
Nominalists, mystics, and witches
The devil and the reformers
High on the throne of the royal state
The disintegration of hell
From romance to nihilism
The integration of evil
Auschwitz and Hiroshima
The meaning of evil
"First published 1988 by Cornell University Press. First printing, Cornell Paperbacks, 1992"--Title page verso
Includes index