Bibliotheca Diabolica

Facsimile reprint of edition first printed in New York in 1874. Omnipresent in the sixteenth- and seventeenth-centuries, an age of religious reform, religious war, and religious persecution, the devil haunted the minds of Christians in those two centuries as never before or after. As a spiritual creature, the devil could traverse the ends of the earth in a heartbeat, and he could communicate instantly with his legion of demons, who could and usually did act in unison together. The ultimate master of the black arts, Satan could raise tempests, create illusions, and assume physical forms such as animals and humans. He was also the power behind the legions of his human agents such as witches, warlords, and magicians. Surprisingly, there are few bibliographies of books about the devil. Besterman cites only one reference, and it is not this one. With approximately 400 books on the subject arranged chronologically, Kernot's work is the most comprehensive bibliography on the devil. Most citations have brief but quite useful annotations. The original catalogue is quite scarce, and it has never been reprinted. With twelve black-and-white images of devils through the ages. iv , 40 pages. cloth. 8vo..