Editors and contributors
Series Introduction
Introduction
Daniel Robinson
1. Towards a History of Evil: Inquisition and Fear in the Medieval West
Teofilo F. Ruiz
2. Witchcraft
Daniel Robinson
3. Medicine
Daniel Robinson
4. Magic and the Sciences during an Age of Change
Peter Maxwell-Stuart
5. Niccolò Machiavelli
Cary J. Nederman and Guillaume Bogiaris
6. Luther
Jennifer Hockenbery Dragseth
7. John Calvin on Evil
Paul Helm
8. Evil within and Evil without: Teresa of Avila Battles the Devil
Bárbara Mujica
9. Anabaptists
Gerald J. Mast
10. Francis Bacon
John Henry
11. Shakespeare and Evil
Claire Landis
12. Hobbes and Evil
Geoffrey Gorham
13. Descartes on Evil
Zbigniew Janowski
14. Milton
Dennis Danielson
15. Baruch Spinoza on Evil
Eugene Marshall
16. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Marcy P. Lascano
17. Cambridge Platonism
Charles Taliaferro
18. Indigenous Peoples
Kenneth H. Lokensgard
19. Religious Authority and Power: Rituals of Conflict in Africa
Bala Saho
20. Representations
Charles Taliaferro and Jil Evans
Index
Daniel Robinson is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Georgetown University, USA and a Fellow of the Faculty of Philosophy, Oxford University, UK.
Chad Meister is Professor of Philosophy and Theology at Bethel College, USA.
Charles Taliaferro is Professor of Philosophy at St Olaf College, USA.
This excellent collection provides a road map for those interested in studying the concept of evil in early modern culture. Evil for whom, one might ask? Evil according to what creed, and in what circumstance? Such questions animate the book’s principal aim, which is to show the period’s wide variety of perspectives on the subject, from the intensely theological to the profoundly secular, from the Devil to Thomas Hobbes. The volume is easy to recommend for its depth and vitality, and—too—because the editors allow room for the possibility that evil is not solely a historical phenomenon. Ryan Stark, Corban University, USA
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