Angels in the Early Modern World

Name: Angels in the Early Modern World
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ISBN: 9780521843324

ISBN-10: 0521843324

ISBN-13: 9780521843324

Edition: 2006

Authors: Peter Marshall, Alexandra Walsham

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Belief in the importance of angels was as widespread and intense in the early modern era as it had been in the middle ages. This volume is the first to consider how ideas about the nature, existence and activities of angels negotiated the religious, intellectual and cultural upheavals of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The contributors explore the fate and fortunes of these heavenly protectors and messengers against the backdrop of the Renaissance and Reformation and in the context of scientific change. Ranging from the British Isles and continental Europe to New England and Latin America, they consider how angels were implicated in the processes of Protestant and Catholic renewal,…

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List price: $99.99
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 8/31/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 342
Size: 7.13" wide x 9.76" long x 1.06" tall
Weight: 1.826
Language: English



List of illustrations


Notes on contributors


Preface and acknowledgements



Migrations of angels in the early modern world




The Renaissance angel




Luther on the angels




Angels around the deathbed: variations on a theme in the English art of dying




Angels conquering and conquered: changing perceptions in Spanish America




Angels and idols in England's long Reformation




Dubious messengers: Bodin's daemon, the spirit world and the Sadducees




Guardian angels and the Society of Jesus




Imagining angels in early modern Ireland




'Patronage of angels and combat of demons': good versus evil in seventeenth-century Spain




'With the tongues of angels': angelic conversations in Paradise Lost and seventeenth-century England




Otherworldly visions: angels, devils and gender in puritan New England




Angels in elite and popular magic, 1650-1790



Index