MACMILLAN Conversations with Angels: Essays Towards a History of Spiritual Communication, 1100-1700

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. Book Description A multi- and inter- disciplinary exploration of the role of angels in history, theology, natural philosophy, music, medicine, magic and literature in medieval and early-modern Britain and Europe About the Author 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