Spirits unseen
Subtitle: the representation of subtle bodies in early modern European culture
By: edited by Christine Gottler and Wolfgang Neuber.
Contributors: Göttler, Christine.; Neuber, Wolfgang.
Series: Intersections -- v. 9
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 365
ISBN-13: 9789004163966
Subjects: Spirits -- History; Europe -- Civilization
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Vapours and veils : the edge of the unseen / Christine Gottler; title: Poltergeist the prequel : aspects of other worldly disturbances in early modern times / Wolfgang Neuber; title: Fire, smoke and vapour, Jan Brueghel's "poetic hell' : ghespoock in early modern European art / Christine Gottler; title: Moveable feasts of reason : description, intelligence, and the excitation of sight / Bret Rothstein; title: Images in the air : optical games, magic, and imagination / Sven Dupre; title: Material gazes and flying images in Marsilio Ficino and Michelangelo / Berthold Hub; title: Spirits of love: Castiglione and Neo-Platonic discourses of vision / Wietse de Boer; title: Painting's enchanting poison : artistic eficacy and the transfer of spirits / Thijs Weststeijn; title: "Singe the enchantment for sleepe" : music and bewitched sleep in early modern English drama / Sarah F. Williams; title: Bilder des Unsichtbaren : Robert Fludd's Konzeption des Weltgeistes / Wilhelm Schmidt-Biggemann; title: Sympathy in Eden : on paradise with the fall of man by Rubens and Brueghel / Paul J. Smith; title: Dizzying visions : St. Teresa of Jesus and the embodied visual image / Rose Marie San Juan; title: Spirit as intermediary in post-Cartesian natural philosophy / Justin E.H. Smith; title: The motions of laughter : allegory and physiology in Walter Charleton's Natural history of the passions (1674) / Dawn Morgan; title: Ghosts in the machine : the apparition of Mrs. Veal, Rowe's friendship in death, and the early eighteenth-century invisible world / Jennifer Frangos; title: Die Geburt des Kunstwerks durch den Geist der Proportion : Franz Xavier Messerschmidt und seine Charakterkopfe / Axel Christoph Gampp.