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Author:   J. Raymond ,  Lauren Kassell
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.585kg
ISBN:  

9780230552036

ISBN 10:   023055203
Pages:   349
Publication Date:   09 August 2011
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Introduction; J.Raymond PART I: NATURAL PHILOSOPHY Strategies of Interspecies Communication, 1100-2000; W.Stephens Angels and the Physics of Place in the Early Fourteenth Century; J.Byrne Galilean Angels; N.Wilding Newtonian Angels; S.Schaffer PART II: MAGIC Speaking with Spirits in Medieval Magic Texts; S.Page False Illuding Spirits & Cownterfeiting Deuills: John Dee's Angelic Conversations and Religious Anxiety; S.Clucas 'Behold, the dreamer cometh': Hyperphysical Magic and Deific Visions in an Early Modern Theosophical Lab-Oratory; P.J.Forshaw PART III: REPRESENTATION Singing with the Angels: Hildegard of Bingen's Representations of Celestial Music; W.Flynn 'And the angel said': Conversations with Angels in Early Modern Music; J.A.Owens Athanasius Kircher's Guardian Angel;  I.Rowland PART IV: REFORMATIONS The Guardian Angel in Protestant England; P.Marshall Catholic Reformation and the Cult of Angels in Early Modern England; A.Walsham Mysticism and Politics in C17th England: The Pordages and their Angelical World; J.Raymond

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JAMES BYRNE Doctoral student, Princeton University, USA STEPHEN CLUCAS Reader in Early Modern Intellectual History, Birkbeck, University of London, UK WILLIAM FLYNN Lecturer in Medieval Latin, the Institute of Medieval Studies, University of Leeds, UK PETER FORSHAW Assistant Professor in the History of Western Esotericism, the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands PETER MARSHALL Professor of Early Modern Religious and Cultural History, University of Warwick, UK JESSIE ANN OWENS Professor of Music and Dean of the Division of Humanities, Arts and Cultural Studies University of California Davis, USA SOPHIE PAGE Lecturer in Medieval History, University College London, UK INGRID ROWLAND Professor in the University of Notre Dame School of Architecture, Rome, Italy SIMON SCHAFFER Professor of History of Science, University of Cambridge, UK WALTER STEPHENS Charles S. Singleton Professor of Italian Studies, Johns Hopkins's University, USA ALEXANDRA WALSHAM Professor of Modern History, the University of Cambridge, UK NICK WILDING Assistant Professor in History, Georgia State University, USA

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