Conversations with Angels: Essays Towards a History of Spiritual Communication, 1100-1700.
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. Reprint. Hardcover. Octavo. xiii + 349pp. Gray papered boards, lettered in white on upper board and spine, index. From the publisher: "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." Contents: Introduction by Joad Raymond; "Strategies of Interspecies Communication, 1100–2000" by Walter Stephens; "Angels and the Physics of Place in the Early Fourteenth Century" by James Steven Byrne; "Galileian Angels" by Nick Wilding; "Newtonian Angels" by Simon Schaffer; "Speaking with Spirits in Medieval Magic Texts" by Sophie Page; "False Illuding Spirits & Cownterfeiting Deuills: John Dee’s Angelic Conversations and Religious Anxiety" by Stephen Clucas; "‘Behold, the dreamer cometh’: Hyperphysical Magic and Deific Visions in an Early-Modern Theosophical Lab-Oratory" by Peter Forshaw; "Singing with the Angels: Hildegard of Bingen’s Representations of Celestial Music" by William Flynn; "‘And the angel said…’: Conversations with Angels in Early Modern Music" by Jessie Ann Owens; "Athanasius Kircher’s Guardian Angel" by Ingrid Rowland; "Catholic Reformation and the Cult of Angels in Early Modern England" by Alexandra Walsham; "The Guardian Angel in Protestant England" by Peter Marshall; and " Radicalism and Mysticism in the Later Seventeenth Century: John Pordage’s Angels" by Joad Raymond. "As new". A bright clean copy in Fine condition (no dust jacket issued). Item #67451
ISBN: 9780230552036
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