Conversations with Angels [electronic resource] : Essays Towards a History of Spiritual Communication, 1100-1700 /
Raymond, J.editor.
Based on refractions of earlier beliefs, modern angels - at once terrible and comforting, frighteningly other and reassuringly beneficent - have acquired a powerful symbolic value. This interdisciplinary study looks at how humans conversed with angels in medieval and early modern Europe, and how they explained and represented these conversations.
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""Cover""; ""Halftitle""; ""Title""; ""Contents""; ""List of Illustrations""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Notes on Contributors""; ""1 Introduction""; ""Part I Natural Philosophy""; ""2 Strategies of Interspecies Communication, 1100â€?2000""; ""3 Angels and the Physics of Place in the Early Fourteenth Century""; ""4 Galileian Angels""; ""5 Newtonian Angels""; ""Part II Magic""; ""6 Speaking with Spirits in Medieval Magic Texts""; ""7 False Illuding Spirits & Cownterfeiting Deuills:John Deeâ€?s Angelic Conversations and Religious Anxiety""
""8 â€?Behold, the dreamer comethâ€?: Hyperphysical Magic andDeific Visions in an Early Modern Theosophical Lab-Oratory""""Part III Representation""; ""9 Singing with the Angels: Hildegard of Bingenâ€?sRepresentations of Celestial Music""; ""10 â€?And the angel said ...â€?: Conversations with Angels inEarly Modern Music""; ""11 Athanasius Kircherâ€?s Guardian Angel""; ""Part IV Reformations""; ""12 Catholic Reformation and the Cult of Angels inEarly Modern England""; ""13 The Guardian Angel in Protestant England""
""14 Radicalism and Mysticism in the Later Seventeenth Century:John Pordageâ€?s Angels""""Index""
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Based on refractions of earlier beliefs, modern angels - at once terrible and comforting, frighteningly other and reassuringly beneficent - have acquired a powerful symbolic value. This interdisciplinary study looks at how humans conversed with angels in medieval and early modern Europe, and how they explained and represented these conversations.
Europe-History.
Philosophy.
Europe-History-476-1492.
Religion-History.
History, Modern.
Social history.
European History.
History of Philosophy.
History of Medieval Europe.
History of Religion.
Modern History.
Social History.