Fernando Cervantes is Reader in History at the University of Bristol. He is the author of The Devil in the New World: The Impact of Diabolism in New Spain (1994). Andrew Redden is a Lecturer in Latin American History at the University of Liverpool. He is author of Diabolism in Colonial Peru, 1560-1750 (2008).

Introduction Fernando Cervantes and Andrew Redden; Part I. From the Old World to the New: 1. The devil in the old world: anti-superstition literature, medical humanism and preternatural philosophy in early modern Spain Andrew Keitt; 2. Demonios within and without: Hieronymites and the devil in the early modern Hispanic world Kenneth Mills; 3. How to see angels: the resilience of Mendicant spirituality in Spanish America Fernando Cervantes; Part II. Indigenous and Afro-American Responses: 4. Satan is my nickname: demonic and angelic interventions in colonial Nahuatl theatre Louise Burkhart; 5. Vipers under the altar cloth: Satanic and angelic forms in seventeenth-century New Granada Andrew Redden; 6. Where did all the angels go? An interpretation of the Nahua supernatural world Caterina Pizzigoni; Part III. The World of the Baroque: 7. Angels and demons in the conquest of Peru Ramón Mujica Pinilla; 8. Winged and imagined Indians Jaime Cuadriello; 9. Psychomachia Indiana: angels, devils and holy images in New Spain David Brading.

Depicts the intricate cultural, religious and intellectual kaleidoscope of interactions between angels, demons and the heterogeneous populations of Spanish America.