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SATAN Hérétique discusses the changing ways in which people thought about demons in the late thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. In particular, Boureau argues that the early fourteenth century was a turning point. Before this date, demons had been seen as threatening but ultimately lacking in power: they could deceive humans when God permitted them to do so, but their abilities were limited. In the early fourteenth century, however, demons came to be seen as far more powerful and dangerous, and a potential threat to anyone. Boureau argues that this increased fear of demons was a pre-condition for the witch trials which took place in the fifteenth century as well as in later centuries. In investigating the intellectual history of demonology in this way, Boureau fills a gap left by other recent writers on the subject, who have either focused on later periods (for example Stuart Clark and Walter Stephens) or have focused particularly on Thomas Aquinas (notably Norman Cohn). He also takes the reader through a wide variety of sources which discussed demons, from academic canon law and theology to miracle stories.
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