Love in the Time of Demons: Thirteenth-Century Approaches to the Capacity for Love in Fallen Angels
Year: 2012
Type: article
Abstract: Demons in the Middle Ages were primarily known as creatures that\ncould feel only envy, anger, and malicious glee. But there remained an\nundercurrent in both scholastic thought and monastic tales that also\nunderstood demons as creatures once capable-and perhaps still so-of love.\nThis paper examines the capacity for love and friendship attributed to demons\nin the thirteenth century. It shows how love could be seen as the motivating\nemotion in their original fall from Heaven, and explores the role love is\nsubsequently thought to have played in both their relationships with each other\nand their amatory and sexual relationships with humans.
Author: Juanita Feros Ruys
Institution: The University of Sydney
Language: English
Subfield: Classics
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1598129515