Dr. Thomas B. de Mayo is Assistant Professor of History at J. Sargent Reynolds Community College in Richmond, Virginia. He received his Ph.D. in History from the University of Arizona.
2008 0-7734-5242-7 Examines the demonology of William of Auvergne, to determine why and how he constructed his theories out of contemporary lore about demons and other spirits. William was a master of theology in the University of Paris and bishop of Paris from 1228 until his death in 1249, a position in which he served as a major advisor to the young Louis IX. With his demonology he sought to impose an order he considered doctrinally acceptable onto the turbulence of early thirteenth-century France.