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-'''Jeffrey Burton Russell''' (born 1934) is an American historian and [[religious studies]] scholar.+
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-Russell has published widely, mostly in [[Middle Ages|medieval European history]] and the history of [[theology]]. His first book was ''Dissent and Reform in the Early Middle Ages'' (1965). He is most noted for his five-volume history of the concept of [[the Devil]]: ''The Devil'' (1977), ''Satan'' (1981), ''Lucifer'' (1984), ''Mephistopheles'' (1986) and ''The Prince of Darkness'' (1988).+
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-In ''[[Inventing the Flat Earth]]'' (1991) he argues that 19th century anti-[[Christianity|Christians]] invented and spread the falsehood that educated people in the Middle Ages believed that the earth was [[Flat Earth|flat]]. As one writer summarizes, "Russell also examined a large selection of textbooks and found those written before 1870 usually included the correct account, but most textbooks written after 1880 uncritically repeated the erroneous claims in [[Washington Irving]], [[John William Draper]] and [[Andrew Dickson White]]. Russell concludes that Irving, Draper and White were the main writers responsible for introducing the erroneous [[flat-earth myth]] that is still with us today."+
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-Russell has also written two books on the history of the notion of [[Heaven]]: ''A History of Heaven: The Singing Silence'' (1997), which deals with the period from around 200 B.C. up to [[Dante]], and ''Paradise Mislaid'' (2006), which takes the story up to the present day.+
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-The Library of Congress lists 18 books written by Russell:+
-* Dissent and Reform in the Early Middle Ages (1965, 1982, 1992)+
-* Medieval Civilization (1968)+
-* History of Medieval Christianity: Prophecy & Order (1968, 1986, 2000)+
-* Religious Dissent in the Middle Ages (edited by Jeffrey B. Russell) (1971)+
-* Witchcraft in the Middle Ages (1972)+
-* Devil: Perceptions of Evil from Antiquity to Primitive Christianity (1977)+
-* History of Witchcraft, Sorcerers, Heretics, and Pagans (1980, 2007)+
-* Medieval Heresies: A Bibliography, 1960-1979 (with [[Carl T. Berkhout]]) (1981)+
-* Satan: The Early Christian Tradition (1981)+
-* Lucifer: The Devil in the Middle Ages (1984)+
-* Mephistopheles: The Devil in the Modern World (1986)+
-* Prince of Darkness: Radical Evil and the Power of Good in History (1988)+
-* Inventing the Flat Earth: Columbus and Modern Historians (1991)+
-* History of Heaven: The Singing Silence (1997)+
-* Devil, Heresy, and Witchcraft in the Middle Ages: Essays in Honor of Jeffrey B. Russell (edited by [[Alberto Ferreiro]]) (1998)+
-* Life of the Jura Fathers: The Life and Rule of the Holy Fathers Romanus, Lupicinus, and Eugendus, Abbots of the Monasteries in the Jura Mountains (1999)+
-* Paradise Mislaid: How We Lost Heaven—and How We Can Regain It (2006)+
-* Exposing Myths about Christianity: A Guide to Answering 145 Viral Lies and Legends (2012)+
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