The Political History of the Devil
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The Political History of the Devil by Daniel Defoe (1726)
This work sounds like a joke or satire. But the general scholarly opinion is that Defoe really did think of the Devil as a participant in world history. He spends some time discussing Milton's Paradise Lost and explaining why he considers it inaccurate.
His view is 18th century Presbyterian - he blames the Devil for the Crusades and sees him as close to Europe's Catholic powers.
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