Angels and Angelology in the Middle Ages

Name: Angels and Angelology in the Middle Ages
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ISBN: 9780195110975

ISBN-10: 0195110978

ISBN-13: 9780195110975

Edition: 1998

Authors: David Keck

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Recently angels have made a remarkable comeback in the popular imagination; their real heyday, however, was the Middle Ages. From the great shrines dedicated to Michael the Archangel at Mont-St-Michel and Monte Garano to the elaborate metaphysical speculations of the great thirteenth-century scholastics, angels dominated the physical, temporal, and intellectual landscape of the medieval West. This book offers a full-scale study of angels and angelology in the Middle Ages. Seeking to discover how and why angels became so important in medieval society, David Keck considers a wide range of fascinating questions such as: Why do angels appear on baptismal fonts? How and why did angels become…

Book details

List price: $215.00
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 7/23/1998
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 280
Size: 6.42" wide x 9.29" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English



Preface


Introduction the Plenitude of Medieval Angelology



Scripture, the Foundation of Angelology



the Length of Scripture I Sacred History and the Creation



the Length of Scripture 2 Angels, Israel, and the Church



the Depth and Height of Scripture



Angels, the Philosopher, and the University the Nature of the Angels



Scholasticism and the Transformation of Angelology



The Angelic Nature in the Thirteenth Century the Flowering of Medieval Angelology



Angels and Religious Orders



Monks and Mendicants



Franciscan Angelology and the Crises of the Franciscan Order



Angels and the Medieval Church



Birth, Maturation, and the Regular Religious Practices of Adults



Exceptional Practices of Adults, Death, and Resurrection


Conclusion the Harvest of Medieval Angelology


Notes


Bibliography


Index of Biblical Passages


Index of Names and Subjects