Conversations with Angels

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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

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Introduction; J.Raymond PART I: NATURAL PHILOSOPHY Strategies of Interspecies Communication, 1100-2000; W.Stephens Angels and the Physics of Place in the Early Fourteenth Century; J.Byrne Galilean Angels; N.Wilding Newtonian Angels; S.Schaffer PART II: MAGIC Speaking with Spirits in Medieval Magic Texts; S.Page False Illuding Spirits & Cownterfeiting Deuills: John Dee's Angelic Conversations and Religious Anxiety; S.Clucas 'Behold, the dreamer cometh': Hyperphysical Magic and Deific Visions in an Early Modern Theosophical Lab-Oratory; P.J.Forshaw PART III: REPRESENTATION Singing with the Angels: Hildegard of Bingen's Representations of Celestial Music; W.Flynn 'And the angel said': Conversations with Angels in Early Modern Music; J.A.Owens Athanasius Kircher's Guardian Angel;  I.Rowland PART IV: REFORMATIONS The Guardian Angel in Protestant England; P.Marshall Catholic Reformation and the Cult of Angels in Early Modern England; A.Walsham Mysticism and Politics in C17th England: The Pordages and their Angelical World; J.Raymond

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