An original book examining the concept of the Devil in English culture between the Reformation and the end of the English Civil War. Nathan Johnstone looks at t

This book represents the first systematic study of the role of the Devil in English witchcraft pamphlets for the entire period of state-sanctioned witchcraft pr

This book for the first time, traces religious, popular and political uses of Satan and witchcraft in early modern England.

Allegations of satanic child abuse became widespread in North America in the 1980s. Shortly afterwards, there were similar reports in Britain of sexual abuse, t

Stories of witchcraft and demonic possession from early modern England through the last official trials in colonial New England Those possessed by the devil in