Third paper of our #EMoDiR panel at #RSA2026: Christine Kooi, “The Devil Congratulates Charles IX.”
A biting 1572 Protestant Pasquillus imagines Satan praising the king after the St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre—searing satire that sharpens confessional polemic in the later Reformation.
Second paper of our #EMoDiR panel at #RSA2026: Jakob Moser (University of Vienna), “Theologia Daemonum.”
From psalm-singing demons in hagiography to Reformation prints crowded with reading devils, a striking visual and intellectual “theology of demons” emerges—captured in truly fascinating images
