Keywords
Demonology
Capuchins
Alamín
18th century.
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Abstract
The objective of this article is to analyze the demon´s function in the book Falacias del demonio y de los vicios que apartan del Camino Real del Cielo […]written by Fray Felix de Alamín- a Spanish capuchin-, reprinted in Madrid at 1714, like an example of the baroque cultural production in Spain that reached to early 18th century. In this period, the politics and socials conjunctures and the long endurance history flowed into the Spanish empire decadence, generating a change in the perception of this “God’s enemy”. We study continuities and discontinuities in demon´s speech written by the friar, reflected by his own time, interconnecting the “Golden Century” in Spain with the mystical bases and religiosity new ways to the early years in the 18th century.The journal Memoria y Sociedad is registered under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License. Thus, this work may be reproduced, distributed, and publicly shared in digital format, as long as the names of the authors and Pontificia Universidad Javeriana are acknowledged. Others are allowed to quote, adapt, transform, auto-archive, republish, and create based on this material, for any purpose (even commercial ones), provided the authorship is duly acknowledged, a link to the original work is provided, and it is specified if changes have been made. Pontificia Universidad Javeriana does not hold the rights of published works and the authors are solely responsible for the contents of their works; they keep the moral, intellectual, privacy, and publicity rights.
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