Lucifer: The Devil in the Middle Ages

5 best books like Lucifer: The Devil in the Middle Ages (Jeffrey Burton Russell): The Epic of Gilgamesh, The Golden Ass, The Medieval World Complete, Archaeologies of the Future: The Desire Called Utopia and Other Science Fictions, Forged: Writing in the Name of God

The Epic of Gilgamesh
AuthorAnonymous
ISBN0141026286
Andrew George's "masterly new translation" (The Times) of the world's first truly great work of literature

Miraculously preserved on clay tablets dating back as much as four thousand years, the poem of Gilgamesh, king of Uruk, is the world’s oldest epic, predating Homer by many centuries....
The Golden Ass
AuthorApuleius
ISBN0253200369
The Golden Ass by Apuleius is a unique, entertaining, and thoroughly readable Latin novel - the only work of fiction in Latin to have survived in entirety from antiquity. It tells the story of the hero Lucius, whose curiosity and fascination for sex and magic results in his transformation into an ass....
AuthorRobert Bartlett
ISBN0500283338
The Medieval World Complete re-creates one of the great ages of European civilization through a sequence of spectacular images accompanied by a lively, informed commentary. Organized by topic and thoroughly cross-referenced, this comprehensive volume enables the reader to explore and understand...
AuthorFredric Jameson
ISBN1844675386
In an age of globalization characterized by the dizzying technologies of the First World and the social disintegration of the Third, is the concept of utopia still meaningful?

Archaeologies of the Future, Jameson’s most substantial work since Postmodernism, Or, the Cultural Logic of...
Forged: Writing in the Name of God
AuthorBart D. Ehrman
ISBN0062012614
s/t: Why the Bible's Authors Are Not Who We Think They Are
Bart D. Ehrman, the New York Times bestselling author of Jesus, Interrupted and God's Problem reveals which books in the New Testament were not passed down by Jesus' disciples, but were instead forged by other hands--and why this centuries-hidden...
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