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Darrera modificació: 2015-09-04
Bases de dades: Sciència.cat
Raymond, Joad (ed.), Conversations with Angels: Essays Towards a History of Spiritual Communication, 1100-1700, Nova York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2011, xiii + 349 pp.
- Resum
- This collection offers a new and compelling vision of the place of angels in medieval and early-modern Europe. Through literal and figurative conversations with angels, humans acquired or imagined new forms of knowledge and new understandings of the relationship between God and man and of the arrangement of the natural world. By looking at these conversations, the authors, from many disciplines, recover lost perspectives on the social and cultural histories of theology, magic, natural philosophy, music, and literature in medieval and early modern Europe. The essays explore points of convergence between the disciplines and between medieval and Renaissance theology, natural philosophy, politics and imaginative culture. They restore to angels some of the intellectual vitality and cultural substance that the centuries have taken away, and bring angels closer to humans.
Contents:
* Strategies of interspecies communication, 1100-2000 / Walter Stephens
* Angels and the physics of place in the early fourteenth century / James Steven Byrne
* Galileian angels / Nick Wilding
* Newtonian angels / Simon Schaffer
* Speaking with spirits in medieval magic texts / Sophie Page
* False illuding spirits & cownterfeiting deuills: John Dee's angelic conversation and religious anxiety / Stephen Clucas
* 'Behold the dreamer cometh': hyperphysical magic and deific visions in an early modern theosophical lab-oratory / Peter J. Forshaw
* Singing with the angels: Hildegard of Bingen's representations of celestial music / William T. Flynn
* 'And the angel said ... ' Conversations with angels in early modern music / Jessie Ann Owens
* Athanasius Kircher's guardian angel / Ingrid D. Rowland
* Catholic reformation and the cult of angels in early modern England / Alexandra Walsham
* The guardian angel in protestant England / Peter Marshall
* Radicalism and mysticism in the later seventeenth century: John Pordage's angels / Joad Raymond
- Matèries
- Màgia - Màgia religiosa
Religió - Angelologia
- URL
- https://books.google.cat/books?id=dKvAXt5gDboC&lpg= ...
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