- Volume Thirty-Five 1993 Essays in History Published by the Corcoran Department of History at the University of Virginia. The Devil and the Religious Controversies of Sixteenth-Century France Carleton Cunningham RESEARCH conducted by social historians in the past few decades has revealed a rich fabric of religious belief and ritual in late medieval and early modern Europe. In concentrating on ...etext.lib.virginia.edu/journals/EH/EH35/cunn1.html