Angels in the early modern world

Contents

Migrations of angels in the early modern world / Peter Marshall and Alexandra Walsham -- The Renaissance angel / Bruce Gordon -- Luther on the angels / Philip M. Soergel -- Angels around the deathbed : variations on a theme in the English art of dying / Peter Marshall -- Angels conquering and conquered : changing perceptions in Spanish America / Fernando Cervantes -- Angels and idols in England's long Reformation / Alexandra Walsham -- Dubious messengers : Bodin's daemon, the spirit world and the Sadducees / Robin Briggs -- Guardian angels and the Society of Jesus / Trevor Johnson -- Imagining angels in early modern Ireland / Raymond Gillespie -- 'Patronage of angels and combat of demons' : good versus evil in seventeenth-century Spain / María Tausiet ; translated by Adrian J. Pearce -- 'With the tongues of angels' : angelic conversations in Paradise lost and seventeenth-century England / Joad Raymond -- Otherworldly visions : angels, devils and gender in puritan New England / Elizabeth Reis -- Angles in elite and popular magic, 1650-1790 / Owen Davies

General notes

Includes bibliographical references and index