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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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