A Demonology Who’s Who during the Renaissance and Its Medieval Foundations
2003; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
ISSN
1777-5892
Autores Tópico(s)Renaissance Literature and Culture
ResumoDemonological who’s who of the 16th century and their medieval ancestors. The Livre des esperitz, copied in the middle of the sixteenth century in Ms. Cambridge, Trinity College O.8.29 (and published here for the first time), and the Pseudomonarchia daemonum, published by Johannes Wier in 1577, may be considered as demonological who’s who, i.e. lists of demons, with their titles, physical apparences, fonctions and number of troops, accounted in legions. Both are late testimonies of a textual tradition which have belonged to ritual magic since the 13th century at least. Two other partial lists of demons appear in 15th century magical manuscripts. Demoniacal majesty appears here in its glory but those demons seem rather benevolent, and even beneficent, which is curious and even scandalous for the keepers of christian orthodoxy. Actually, magical demonology resists to the bipartition of angelical universe, proper to medieval christianism.
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