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Elysium : a visual history of angelology
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ISBN: 9781419767579 Year: 2023 Publisher: New York, N.Y. Abrams

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"A gloriously illustrated overview of angels across art, religion, and literature Ineffable, invisible, inscrutable - angels are enduring creatures across Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, and human experiences of the divine as mediated by spiritual emissaries are an aspect of almost every religious tradition. In popular culture, angels are often reduced to the most gauzy, sentimental, and saccharine of images - fat babies with wings and guardians with robes, halos, and harps. By contrast, in scripture whenever one of the heavenly choirs appears before a prophet or patriarch they first declare "Fear not!" for terror would be the most appropriate initial reaction to these otherworldly beings. Angels are often not what we'd expect, but it's precisely in that transcendent encounter that something of the strangeness of existence can be conveyed. Elysium: A Visual History of Angelology is a follow-up volume to Pandemonium: A Visual History of Demonology, and like that earlier title, this book will offer an account of the angelic hierarchies as they've been understood across centuries and cultures, of the individual personages like the archangels Michael, Gabriel, and Uriel who have marked the mythology of the West"--

The resurrection of the body in western christianity, 200-1336
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ISBN: 0231081278 023108126X 0231546084 0231515626 9780231081269 Year: 1995 Volume: new ser., no. 15 Publisher: New York (N.Y.): Columbia university press,

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A classic of medieval studies, The Resurrection of the Body in Western Christianity, 200-1336 traces ideas of death and resurrection in early and medieval Christianity. Caroline Walker Bynum explores problems of the body and identity in devotional and theological literature, suggesting that medieval attitudes toward the body still shape modern notions of the individual. This expanded edition includes her 1995 article "Why All the Fuss About the Body? A Medievalist's Perspective," which takes a broader perspective on the book's themes. It also includes a new introduction that explores the context in which the book and article were written, as well as why the Middle Ages matter for how we think about the body and life after death today.


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Medieval religion and technology : collected essays
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ISBN: 0520035666 9780520035669 Year: 1978 Volume: 13 Publisher: Berkeley, Calif.: University of California,


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The controversy on images from Calvin to Baronius
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ISBN: 0820418730 Year: 1992 Volume: vol. 14 Publisher: New York, N.Y. Lang

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Frömmigkeitsformen in Mittelalter und Renaissance
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ISBN: 3770008464 9783770008469 Year: 2004 Volume: 37 Publisher: Düsseldorf: Droste,

Seeing and being seen in the later medieval world : optics, theology, and religious life
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ISBN: 0521827841 9780521827843 9780511496462 9780521108935 0521108934 0511121512 0511111436 0511299052 051149646X 1280163119 0511197942 051111110X 9780511111433 9781280163111 Year: 2005 Volume: 4th ser. Publisher: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press,

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During the later Middle Ages people became increasingly obsessed with vision, visual analogies and the possibility of visual error. In this book Dallas Denery addresses the question of what medieval men and women thought it meant to see themselves and others in relation to the world and to God. Exploring the writings of Roger Bacon, Duns Scotus, Peter Aureol and Nicholas of Autrecourt in light of an assortment of popular religious guides for preachers, confessors and penitents, including Peter of Limoges' Treatise on the Moral Eye, he illustrates how the question preoccupied medieval men and women on both an intellectual and practical level. This book offers a unique interdisciplinary examination of the interplay between religious life, perspectivist optics and theology. Denery presents significant new insights into the medieval psyche and conception of the self, ensuring that this book will appeal to historians of medieval science and those of medieval religious life and theology.


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The Madonna of humility : development, dissemination and reception, c. 1340-1400
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ISBN: 9781843834199 1843834197 Year: 2009 Volume: *1 Publisher: Woodbridge ; Rochester The Boydell Press

Gender and holiness : men, women and saints in late medieval Europe
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ISBN: 0415258219 Year: 2005 Volume: 1 Publisher: London : Routledge,

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This collection brings together two flourishing areas of medieval scholarship: gender and religion. It examines gender-specific religious practices and contends that the pursuit of holiness can destabilise binary gender itself. Though saints may be classified as masculine or feminine, holiness may also cut across gender divisions and demand a break from normally gendered behavior.


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The doctrine of the Holy Spirit: a bibliography showing its chronological development
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ISBN: 0810825236 Year: 1995 Publisher: Lanham, Md Scarecrow Press

Une histoire du paradis
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ISBN: 2213595259 2213027897 2213607141 9782213595252 9782213027890 9782213607146 Year: 2000 Publisher: Paris: Fayard,

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