Conversations with Angels
Essays Towards a History of Spiritual Communication, 1100-1700| By: | J. Raymond |
| Publisher: | Springer Nature |
| Print ISBN: | 9780230552036 |
| eText ISBN: | 9780230316973 |
| Edition: | 0 |
| Copyright: | 2011 |
| Format: | Page Fidelity |
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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.