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C. W. Marx, The Devil's Rights and the Redemption in the Literature of Medieval England (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1995). x + 184 pp.; 4 illustrations. ISBN 0-85991-455-0. L29.50.
The aim of this study is to challenge the commonly accepted assumption that the use of the theme of the Devil's rights in later medieval literature is `something of an anachronism, an inheritance from patristic writing which, in the mainstream of theology, had been displaced by later developments' (p. 1). C. W. Marx traces this assumption to two main sources. One is R. W. Southern's claim, in The Making of the Middle Ages (1953), that Anselm's Cur Deus...