Angels in the Early Modern World
Contributors: Peter Marshall (Editor)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: September 25, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9780521843324
Subjects: Devotional theology & objects of veneration; History of religion; World history: c 1500 to c 1750; c 1500 to c 1600; History: World; History; History - General History; Renaissance; History / Renaissance
First sentence: Seen and unseen, in heaven and on the earth, in image an in text, angels have persistently infiltrated the cultural imagination of western and near-eastern civilisation for more than two millennia.