Notas sobre a naturalização da ação demoníaca na Idade Média

Abstract

The belief in demons has been present in the Western imagination since Antiquity, although they have not always received the same names or the same characterization, something that is easily perceptible from common sense, literature, and philosophy. The latter, often serving as a transforming agent, to place them within the scope of the fantasies produced by ignorance, or even to transmute them in terms of a new ontology. In this case, it is a question of considering how the late Middle Ages used conceptual elements arising from the progressive constitution of what might be called a "science about demons", or even the solidification of a cosmology focused on the presence of the evil in the world of men, centered on the relationships that human beings establish with such supernatural beings.