Conversations with Angels: Essays Towards a History of Spiritual Communication, 1100-1700J. Raymond Springer, 09.08.2011 - 349 Seiten 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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Part I Natural Philosophy | 22 |
Part II Magic | 124 |
Part III Representation | 201 |
Part IV Reformations | 272 |
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