Pandemonium A Visual History of Demonology

<DIV><B>A compendium celebrating the art of hell and its minions.</B><BR/> <BR/> Ed Simon’s <I>Pandemonium: The Illustrated History of Demonology </I>presents—for the first time—Satan’s family tree, providing a history and analysis of his fellow fallen angels from Asmodeus to Ziminiar. Throughout the book, there are short entries on individual demons, but <I>Pandemonium</I> is more than just a visual encyclopedia. It also focuses on the influence of figures like Beelzebub, Azazel, Lilith, and Moloch on Western religion, literature, and art.<BR/> <BR/> Ranging from the earliest scriptural references to demons through the contemporary era, when the devils took on a subtler form, <I>Pandemonium </I>functions as a compendium of Lucifer’s subjects, from Dante’s <I>The Divine Comedy </I>to John Milton’s <I>Paradise Lost</I>, and all the points in between. Containing rarely seen illustrations of very old treatises on demonology, as well