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...Kimberly Fonzo This article argues that the devil's appearance in chapter 59 of The Book of Margery Kempe is a creative adaptation of Legenda aurea hagiographies in which a devil takes on the guise of a woman to seduce male saints. Like a male saint, Kempe is tempted with a sexual spectacle...

..., Descartes's Devil (looking suspiciously like his God). The aim of this essay is to give the under-imagined Cartesian demon his due and track the effects of this never-quite-expurgated figure on the coherence of a paradigmatic form of early modern selfhood. Copyright © 2018 by Duke University Press 2018...

... Bry and Las Casas and as assimilated by Shakespeare, is at times defined as a negative difference, ethnocentrically bound to identifying the Mexica as savage devils. But more importantly, the treatment of Mexica sacrifice is also tempered with a positive similarity when imagining Mexican theocracy...

... of this tradition by the forces of commerce in The Three Ladies of London and The Three Lords and Ladies of London , and Jonson’s hilarious use of the tradition in The Devil Is An Ass . Ordinary language philosophy helps to reveal what is at stake in this verbal drama of recognition. © 2012 by Duke University...

... possession, all of which were expressed in similar ways. Nuns also used suicide threats instrumentally to further their claims as spiritual aspirants singled out by the devil. Enlarging the scope of inquiry beyond Protestant Europe, the essay demonstrates the constitutive role Catholic nuns played...

... for practitioners to observe differences between divine and diabolical causes. 1 These differences could be difficult to detect, due to the devil's talent at mimicking his divine opposite. During the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, clerics issued a series of discernment guides, often in connection...

... had authority from the pope to dispense with any sins she might commit. She consented, in defiance of her parents, and for a time these two indulged their lusts without restraint. But one day, as they were feasting with some companions, who should show up but the devil himself! He snatched the young...

... Modern English Stage , ed. Lisa Hopkins and Helen Ostovich (Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate, 2014), 47–60. 15 See, for instance, James's Daemonologie , which describes the way the devil in the process of seducing witches gives “his marke upon some secreit place of their bodie, which remaines soare...

...) pokes fun at “yon gallant in sumptuous clothes” who is “an incarnate devil.”29 Despite associating the fashionable gallant with “vice” who “glorieth in evill,” Mar- ston highlights his own judgment of the subject rather than God’s (67). While formal verse satire does not necessarily strike...

... to the Devil, their bodies cooked, but sometimes also eaten raw, and [they are] so horrendous, that they go in pursuit of each other purely out of a desire for eating human flesh, so that it makes one’s hair stand on end. Also they visibly idolize the Devil, and are beaten...

... their experience into a neat, coherent tale.” See “Understanding Witchcraft? Accusers’ Stories in Print in Early Modern England,” in Languages of Witchcraft , ed. Clark, 41–54, at 46. 39 HtStASt, A209 Bü 999, Anna Müller, 10 Dec. 1616. 40 Ostling, Between the Devil and the Host , 43. 41...

...- geance of God by birth.” We have our fellowship with the damned devils . . . while we are yet in our mother’s wombs; and though we show not forth the fruits of sin [as soon as we are born], yet are we full of the natural poison, whereof all sinful deeds spring...

... his temptation presents a false imago Dei.51 The stage directions specify that he enters “in a dewyllys aray wythowt, & wythin as a prowde galonte” (324 s.d Accordingly, the actor playing Lucifer must take off his devil’s costume in order to appear as a gal- lant in front of Anima’s mights...

... as much as from within. In “Against a Sud- den Stitch,” we saw how invisible spears could cause a physical stabbing pain. Similarly, in the Exeter Book poem, Vainglory, the vainglorious man is exposed to the evil arrows of the devil (26 – 27).34 In this case, however, the flying darts seem to cause...

...: For Religion and ceremonies they are Heathens, without any spark or point of Mahomet’s law, or of any other sects. In many places they pray to the Devil, only because he should not hurt them. When any man lieth on his death bed, they set the picture of the Devil before him...

... and her maid, who, demanding why she did so, she made answer that she made a shitting-house for herself after that sort, and so departed.” This scatological explanation of the witch’s emulation of a well- known ritual of devil conjuration proved immediately effective. The wife of the house was “taken...

... the killing of the Egyptian firstborn by God’s Destroyer. The association of blackness, or darkness, with the devil and sin is a repetitive theme found throughout the biblical text and patristic thought.27 By the third century, this theme develops more sinister associations...

... maumez ron of thet balefule blod al biblodeget [the emperor stood among that sinful slaughter of those slain beasts sacrifices to the devil, so that each accursed altar of the filthy idols ran bloodied by that foul blood] (Katerine 4.11). The same violence that will later be transferred to the virgin...

... the movements of the imagined dancer to idolatry and mockery of Christ's passion: You dancers, hear Augustine saying: the singing of a chorus is a lute of the devil; the devil does the same as the one calling the pigs by blowing a horn. The same goes for the devil and dancing since dancing is letting go...

... it, since he had bought it, not perceiving the Devill: but presently he laying hold of this souleseller, carried him into the aire before them all, toward his own habitation, to the great astonishment and amasement of the beholders; and from that day to this he was never...