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Conversations with Angels

Essays Towards a History of Spiritual Communication, 1100-1700

By: Joad Raymond (Editor)

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Hardcover | 1 September 2011 | Edition Number 1

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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.

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List of Illustrations	p. vii
Acknowledgements	p. ix
Notes on Contributors	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
Natural Philosophy
Strategies of Interspecies Communication, 1100-2000	p. 25
Angels and the Physics of Place in the Early Fourteenth Century	p. 49
Galileian Angels	p. 67
Newtonian Angels	p. 90
Magic
Speaking with Spirits in Medieval Magic Texts	p. 125
False Illuding Spirits & Cownterfeiting Deuills: John Dee's Angelic Conversations and Religious Anxiety	p. 150
'Behold, the dreamer cometh': Hyperphysical Magic and Deific Visions in an Early Modern Theosophical Lab-Oratory	p. 175
Representation
Singing with the Angels: Hildegard of Bingen's Representations of Celestial Music	p. 203
'And the angel said ...': Conversations with Angels in Early Modern Music	p. 230
Athanasius Kircher's Guardian Angel	p. 250
Reformations
Catholic Reformation and the Cult of Angels in Early Modern England	p. 273
The Guardian Angel in Protestant England	p. 295
Radicalism and Mysticism in the Later Seventeenth Century: John Pordage's Angels	p. 317
Index	p. 341
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Essays Towards a History of Spiritual Communication, 1100-1700

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