Includes bibliographical references and index.

Hospitals and poor relief in Ramon Llull's Majorca / Larry J. Simon -- Elves in the Psalms? the experience of evil from a cosmic perspective / Karen Louise Jolly -- "Simon Magus, dogs, and Simon Peter" / Alberto Ferreiro -- Avenging the blood of children: anxiety over child victims and the origins of the European witch trials / Richard Kieckhefer -- Teaching and preaching confession in thirteenth-century Paris / Alan E. Bernstein -- Destruction of the flesh-salvation of the spirit: the paradoxes of torture in medieval Christian society / Edward Peters -- Prophecy and order: mysticism and medieval cosmologies in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries / Cheryl A. Riggs -- Medieval heretics or forerunners of the reformation: the Protestant rewriting of the history of Medieval heresy / Abraham Friesen -- Cosmic and sexual love in Renaissance thought: reflection on Marsilio Ficino, Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, and Leone Ebreo / Bernard McGinn -- The Alfonsine tables and the end of the world: astrology and apocalyptic calculation in the later Middle Ages / Laura Smoller -- Satan: making a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven / Neil Forsyth -- Holiness and obedience: denouncement of twelfth-century Waldensian lay preaching / Beverly Mayne Kienzle -- Lollard inquisitions: due and undue process / Henry Ansgar Kelly -- "Englysch laten" and "Franch": language as sign of evil in medieval English drama / Richard K. Emmerson -- Heaven and fallen angels in old English / Catherine Brown Tkacz -- Peter the Venerable on the"diabolical heresy of the Saracens" / John Tolan -- Nicolas Eymeric and the condemnation of orthodoxy / Gary Macy.