Invoking Angels: Theurgic Ideas and Practices, Thirteenth to Sixteenth Centuries - Rilegato

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9780271051420: Invoking Angels: Theurgic Ideas and Practices, Thirteenth to Sixteenth Centuries

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ISBN 10: 0271051426 ISBN 13: 9780271051420

Casa editrice: Pennsylvania State Univ Pr, 2012

Invoking Angels brings together a tightly themed collection of essays on late medieval and early modern texts concerned with the role of angels in the cosmos, focusing on angelic rituals and spiritual cosmologies. Collectively, these essays tie medieval angel magic texts more clearly to medieval religion and to the better-known author-magicians of the early modern period. In the process of rearticulating the understanding of Christian angel magic, contributors examine the places where an intersection of Christian, Jewish, and Islamic ideas can be identified.

Aside from the editor, the contributors are Harvey J. Hames, Frank Klaassen, Katelyn Mesler, Sophie Page, Jan R. Veenstra, Julien V�ron�se, Nicolas Weill-Parot, and Elliot R. Wolfson.

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Recensione:

"Invoking Angels makes an important contribution to the growing scholarly literature on medieval and early modern ritual magic."

--Christopher Lehrich, Boston University

"Challenging many traditional assumptions, Fanger's collection of essays is an erudite, complex, and fascinating work of deep scholarship that needs to be incorporated into our broader quest to comprehend the intertwined worlds of religion, magic, and science in the late-medieval and early modern worlds."

--Gary K. Waite, Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft

"Just as Conjuring Spirits did for medieval ritual magic, Invoking Angels has set a new path for the field of medieval theurgy."

--Laura Mitchell, Preternature

L'autore:

Claire Fanger is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Rice University. She is the editor ofConjuring Spirits: Texts and Traditions of Medieval Ritual Magic (Penn State, 1998).

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