The problems of pre-modern life
A densely populated universe
Helpful performances : the uses of ritual
Insight and foresight : techniques of divination
The Patristic and Early Medieval heritage
Scholastic demonology in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries
The demonological reading of superstitions in the Late Middle Ages : areas of consensus
The demonological reading of superstitions in the Late Middle Ages : areas of difference and disagreement
The pastoral use of the scholastic critique of superstitions
Some Renaissance Christian humanists and 'superstition'
Magic, the fallen world, and fallen humanity : Martin Luther on the devil and superstitions
Prodigies, providences, and possession : the sixteenth-century Protestant context
The Protestant critique of consecrations : Catholicism as superstition
The Reformed doctrine of providence and the transformation of the Devil
Reformed Catholicism : purifying sources, defending traditions
Demonology becomes an open subject in the seventeenth century
Defending the 'invisible world' : the campaign against 'saducism'
Towards the Enlightenment.