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Based on refractions of earlier beliefs, modern angels - at once terrible and comforting, frighteningly other and reassuringly beneficent - have acquired a powerful symbolic value. This interdisciplinary study looks at how humans conversed with angels in medieval and early modern Europe, and how they explained and represented these conversations.
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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Back Matter
Editors and Affiliations
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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
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Conversations with Angels
Book Subtitle: Essays Towards a History of Spiritual Communication, 1100-1700
Editors: Joad Raymond
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230316973
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2011
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-55203-6Published: 09 August 2011
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-36260-8Published: 01 January 2011
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-31697-3Published: 09 August 2011
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 349
Topics: European History, History of Philosophy, History of Medieval Europe, History of Religion, Modern History, Social History