Conversations with Angels

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • Joad Raymond

      Pages 1-21

3. Natural Philosophy

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 23-23

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   2. Strategies of Interspecies Communication, 1100–2000

      • Walter Stephens

      Pages 25-48

   3. Angels and the Physics of Place in the Early Fourteenth Century

      • James Steven Byrne

      Pages 49-66

   4. Galileian Angels

      • Nick Wilding

      Pages 67-89

   5. Newtonian Angels

      • Simon Schaffer

      Pages 90-122

4. Magic

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 123-123

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   2. Speaking with Spirits in Medieval Magic Texts

      • Sophie Page

      Pages 125-149

   3. False Illuding Spirits & Cownterfeiting Deuills: John Dee’s Angelic Conversations and Religious Anxiety

      • Stephen Clucas

      Pages 150-174

   4. ‘Behold, the dreamer cometh’: Hyperphysical Magic and Deific Visions in an Early-Modern Theosophical Lab-Oratory

      • Peter J. Forshaw

      Pages 175-200

5. Representation

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 201-201

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   2. Singing with the Angels: Hildegard of Bingen’s Representations of Celestial Music

      • William T. Flynn

      Pages 203-229

   3. ‘And the angel said…’: Conversations with Angels in Early Modern Music

      • Jessie Ann Owens

      Pages 230-249

   4. Athanasius Kircher’s Guardian Angel

      • Ingrid D. Rowland

      Pages 250-270

6. Reformations

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 271-271

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   2. Catholic Reformation and the Cult of Angels in Early Modern England

      • Alexandra Walsham

      Pages 273-294

   3. The Guardian Angel in Protestant England

      • Peter Marshall

      Pages 295-316

   4. Radicalism and Mysticism in the Later Seventeenth Century: John Pordage’s Angels

      • Joad Raymond

      Pages 317-339

7. Back Matter

   Pages 341-349

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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.

• England
• Europe
• history
• philosophy
• reform
• reformation

• University of East Anglia, UK

  Joad Raymond

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

Policies and ethics