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Conversations with Angels

Essays Towards a History of Spiritual Communication, 1100-1700

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  • © 2011

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Editors:
  1. Joad Raymond

    1. University of East Anglia, UK

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Joad Raymond
      Pages 1-21

  3. Natural Philosophy

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 23-23
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    2. Strategies of Interspecies Communication, 1100–2000

      • Walter Stephens
      Pages 25-48

    3. Angels and the Physics of Place in the Early Fourteenth Century

      • James Steven Byrne
      Pages 49-66

    4. Galileian Angels

      • Nick Wilding
      Pages 67-89

    5. Newtonian Angels

      • Simon Schaffer
      Pages 90-122

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 341-349
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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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  • University of East Anglia, UK

    Joad Raymond

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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

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