Alexandra Walsham

Angels in the Early Modern World

Herausgeber: Marshall, Peter

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This volume explores the role of belief in the existence of angels in the early modern world.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 342
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. März 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 772g
• ISBN-13: 9780521843324
• ISBN-10: 0521843324
• Artikelnr.: 22755778

Autorenporträt

Alexandra Walsham is Professor of Reformation History at the University of Exeter. Her previous publications include Providence in Early Modern England (1999) and Charitable Hatred: Tolerance and Intolerance in England 1500-1700 (2006).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface and acknowledgments; 1. Migrations of angels in the early modern
world Peter Marshall and Alexandra Walsham; 2. The Renaissance angel Bruce
Gordon; 3. Luther on the angels Philip M. Soergel; 4. Angels around the
deathbed: variations on a theme in the English art of dying Peter Marshall;
5. Angels conquering and conquered: changing perceptions in Spanish America
Fernando Cervantes; 6. Angels and idols in England's long Reformation
Alexandra Walsham; 7. Dubious messengers: Bodin's daemon, the spirit world
and the Sadducees Robin Briggs; 8. Guardian angels and the Society of Jesus
Trevor Johnson; 9. Imagining angels in early modern Ireland Raymond
Gillespie; 10. 'Patronage of angels and combat of demons': good versus evil
in seventeenth-century Spain María Tausiet; 11. 'With the tongues of
angels': angelic conversations in Paradise Lost and seventeenth-century
England Joad Raymond; 12. Otherworldly visions: angels, devils and gender
in puritan New England Elizabeth Reis; 13. Angels in elite and popular
magic, 1650-1790 Owen Davies.