Angels & Angelology in the Middle Ages

1998

Angels have made a remarkable comeback in the popular imagination; their real heyday, however, was the Middle Ages. This text offers a study of angels and angelology in the Middle Ages, seeking to discover how and why angels became so important in medieval society.

Author	David Keck
Publisher	Oxford University Press on Demand
Release Date	1998
ISBN	0195110978
Pages	279 pages

Language: en
Pages: 279

Angels & Angelology in the Middle Ages

Authors: David Keck

Categories: Religion

Type: BOOK - Published: 1998 - Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand

Angels have made a remarkable comeback in the popular imagination; their real heyday, however, was the Middle Ages. This text offers a study of angels and angel

Language: en
Pages: 280

Angels and Angelology in the Middle Ages

Authors: David Keck

Categories: Religion

Type: BOOK - Published: 1998-07-23 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

Recently angels have made a remarkable comeback in the popular imagination; their real heyday, however, was the Middle Ages. From the great shrines dedicated to

Language: en
Pages: 256

Angels in Medieval Philosophical Inquiry

Authors: Martin Lenz

Categories: Philosophy

Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-04-15 - Publisher: Routledge

The nature and properties of angels occupied a prominent place in medieval philosophical inquiry. Creatures of two worlds, angels provided ideal ground for expl

Language: en
Pages: 386

Belief and Culture in the Middle Ages

Authors: Richard Gameson

Categories: History

Type: BOOK - Published: 2001-04-12 - Publisher: OUP Oxford

Are there angels within spitting distance of men? What did Pope Gregory the Great think of pagans? Were the monks of Battle compulsive forgers? Is temptation al

Language: en
Pages: 201

Magical Thinking

Authors: Stuart McWilliams

Categories: History

Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-12-08 - Publisher: A&C Black

Examining how scholarly writing has contended or conspired with discourses of enchantment from the Middle Ages to the present.

Language: en
Pages: 256

Marian Devotion in the Late Middle Ages

Authors: Andrea-Bianka Znorovszky

Categories: History

Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-04-15 - Publisher: Routledge

By the late Middle Ages, manifestations of Marian devotion had become multifaceted and covered all aspects of religious, private and personal life. Mary becomes

Language: en
Pages: 305

Magic in the Middle Ages

Authors: Richard Kieckhefer

Categories: History

Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-09-09 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

A revised and expanded edition of this fascinating interdisciplinary study of magic in the Middle Ages.

Language: en
Pages: 551

Death in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times

Authors: Albrecht Classen

Categories: Social Science

Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-04-11 - Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Death is not only the final moment of life, it also casts a huge shadow on human society at large. People throughout time have had to cope with death as an exis

Language: en
Pages: 160

Answers to Common Questions about Angels and Demons

Authors: H. Wayne House

Categories: Religion

Type: BOOK - Published: - Publisher: Kregel Publications

The Bible is a ready resource for guidance on topics and questions that often provoke and perplex believers. And yet few know where to look for the answers they

Language: en
Pages: 248

Angels in Early Medieval England

Authors: Richard Sowerby

Categories: Religion

Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-07-28 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

In the modern world, angels can often seem to be no more than a symbol, but in the Middle Ages men and women thought differently. Some offered prayers intended