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God, Demons, and Fear: Emotion, The Self, and Self-control in Gregory of Tours

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Scholarly study of demons, fear, emotion, selfhood, and self-control in Gregory of Tours; evidence for late-antique/early-medieval Christian demonology and reception, not supernatural entities.

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Later Christian interpretation increasingly identified demons with fallen angels.

Demons are best treated as a layered category, not a single fixed species. The source record includes harmful spirits, disease agents, foreign-god polemics, dead giant spirits, Belial traditions, exorcism enemies, fallen angels, devils, jinn-related beings, magical threats, and folklore figures.
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The cataloged ancient and historical sources do not identify demons as archons, aliens, or interdimensional entities.

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