Angels in the Early Modern World - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Angels in the Early Modern World write by Peter Marshall. This book was released on 2006-08-31. Angels in the Early Modern World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume explores the role of belief in the existence of angels in the early modern world.
Milton's Angels
Milton's Angels - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Milton's Angels write by Joad Raymond. This book was released on 2010-02-25. Milton's Angels available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Milton's Paradise Lost, the most eloquent, most intellectually daring, most learned, and most sublime poem in the English language, is a poem about angels. It is told by and of angels; it relies upon their conflicts, communications, and miscommunications. They are the creatures of Milton's narrative, through which he sets the Fall of humankind against a cosmic background. Milton's angels are real beings, and the stories he tells about them rely on his understanding of what they were and how they acted. While he was unique in the sublimity of his imaginative rendering of angels, he was not alone in writing about them. Several early-modern English poets wrote epics that explore the actions of and grounds of knowledge about angels. Angels were intimately linked to theories of representation, and theology could be a creative force. Natural philosophers and theologians too found it interesting or necessary to explore angel doctrine. Angels did not disappear in Reformation theology: though centuries of Catholic traditions were stripped away, Protestants used them in inventive ways, adapting tradition to new doctrines and to shifting perceptions of the world. Angels continued to inhabit all kinds of writing, and shape the experience and understanding of the world. Milton's Angels: The Early-Modern Imagination explores the fate of angels in Reformation Britain, and shows how and why Paradise Lost is a poem about angels that is both shockingly literal and sublimely imaginative.
Magic, Science, and Religion in Early Modern Europe
Magic, Science, and Religion in Early Modern Europe - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Magic, Science, and Religion in Early Modern Europe write by Mark A. Waddell. This book was released on 2021-01-28. Magic, Science, and Religion in Early Modern Europe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From the recovery of ancient ritual magic at the height of the Renaissance to the ignominious demise of alchemy at the dawn of the Enlightenment, Mark A. Waddell explores the rich and complex ways that premodern people made sense of their world. He describes a time when witches flew through the dark of night to feast on the flesh of unbaptized infants, magicians conversed with angels or struck pacts with demons, and astrologers cast the horoscopes of royalty. Ground-breaking discoveries changed the way that people understood the universe while, in laboratories and coffee houses, philosophers discussed how to reconcile the scientific method with the veneration of God. This engaging, illustrated new study introduces readers to the vibrant history behind the emergence of the modern world.
Invoking Angels
Invoking Angels - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Invoking Angels write by Claire Fanger. This book was released on 2012-02-01. Invoking Angels available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "A collection of essays examining medieval and early modern texts aimed at performing magic or receiving illumination via the mediation of angels. Includes discussion of Jewish, Christian and Muslim texts"--Provided by publisher.
Knowing Demons, Knowing Spirits in the Early Modern Period
Knowing Demons, Knowing Spirits in the Early Modern Period - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Knowing Demons, Knowing Spirits in the Early Modern Period write by Michelle D. Brock. This book was released on 2018-07-31. Knowing Demons, Knowing Spirits in the Early Modern Period available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book explores the manifold ways of knowing—and knowing about— preternatural beings such as demons, angels, fairies, and other spirits that inhabited and were believed to act in early modern European worlds. Its contributors examine how people across the social spectrum assayed the various types of spiritual entities that they believed dwelled invisibly but meaningfully in the spaces just beyond (and occasionally within) the limits of human perception. Collectively, the volume demonstrates that an awareness and understanding of the nature and capabilities of spirits—whether benevolent or malevolent—was fundamental to the knowledge-making practices that characterize the years between ca. 1500 and 1750. This is, therefore, a book about how epistemological and experiential knowledge of spirits persisted and evolved in concert with the wider intellectual changes of the early modern period, such as the Protestant Reformation, the Scientific Revolution, and the Enlightenment.
