Dæmonomania
Cover of the First Edition of Dæmonomania by Bantam Books featuring Frans Floris' Fall of the Rebel Angels
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| Author | John Crowley |
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| Cover artist | Laurie Jewell |
| Country | United States of America |
| Language | English |
| Series | Ægypt Tetralogy |
| Genre | Modern Fantasy |
| Publisher | Bantam Books |
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August 2000 |
| Media type | Print (1st edition) |
| Pages | 451 |
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| Preceded by | Love & Sleep |
| Followed by | Endless Things |
Daemonomania is a 2000 Modern Fantasy novel by John Crowley. It is Crowley's seventh novel, and as the third novel in Crowley's Ægypt Sequence, a sequel to Crowley's 1994 novel Love & Sleep. The novel follows protagonist Pierce Moffett as he continues his book project begun in The Solitudes about the Renaissance and Hermeticism, while dealing with a stormy relationship with his girlfriend Rosie Ryder.
Like the previous novels, the novel has four main narrative strands, one occurring in the present day generally following Pierce or Rosie Mucho in their artistic works, and two occurring in the Renaissance following the historical fictional activities of John Dee, Edward Kelley and Giordano Bruno as written by fictional novelist Fellowes Kraft. The difference is marked stylistically by dashes indicating dialogue for events that happened in the Renaissance and events in the twentieth century marked by dialogue in ordinary English quotation marks.
The novel's title derives from De la Démonomanie des Sorciers a book purporting to be about demonology intended for would-be exorcists written by sixteenth-century French Jurist and politician Jean Bodin. Pierce and Rosie encounter the book in Part I Chapter 13 among Fellowes Kraft's collection of rare books collected from his travels in Europe.
Thematically, the novel deals with the high numbers of demonic possessions and encounters with sorcery reported in the seventeenth century, precipitating a rise in dogmaticism among both Christians, Muslims and scientific thinkers at the time. In the Author's Note, Crowley cites the research of Nuccio Ordine, Angelo Maria Ripellino, Brian P. Levnack, Carlo Ginzburg, Ioan P. Culianu, and Deborah Vansau Mccauley. The novel was Crowley's first work with editor Ron Drummond.
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