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Book SynopsisThis volume is the first to consider how belief in the existence of angels negotiated the religious, intellectual and cultural upheavals of the early modern period. The contributors explore the fate of these heavenly protectors against the backdrop of the Renaissance and Reformation.
Trade Review"...co-editors Peter Marshall and Alexandra Walsham provide a helpful overview of the place of angels in Christian history." -Timothy Masch, H-German
"Rarely does a collection of essays hold together so tightly as this one, which is likely to inspire a spate of studies of angels in the early modern world." Laura Smoller, Renaissance Quarterly
"The essays in this volume are cogent and painstakingly researched. They explore aspects of the early modern period that have not been widely examined...This volume will without a doubt appeal to scholars of early modern religious and cultural history a well as those of art history and literary studies." --Richard F. Johnson, Harper College: The Catholic Historical Review
Table of ContentsPreface 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.
