"First published 1988 by Cornell University Press. First printing, Cornell Paperbacks, 1992"--Title page verso.
Includes index.
Evil -- The devil around the world -- The good lord and the devil -- Christ and the power of evil -- Satan and heresy -- Dualism and the desert -- The classical Christian view -- Lucifer popular and elite -- Scholastics, poets, and dramatists -- Nominalists, mystics, and witches -- The devil and the reformers -- High on the throne of the royal state -- The disintegration of hell -- From romance to nihilism -- The integration of evil -- Auschwitz and Hiroshima -- The meaning of evil.