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Angels and Angelology in the Middle Ages.
Recently angels have made a remarkable comeback in the popular imagination; their real heyday, however, was the Middle Ages. From the great shrines dedicated to Michael the Archangel at Mont-St-Michel and Monte Garano to the elaborate metaphysical speculations of the great thirteenth-centuryscholast...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cary :
Oxford University Press,
1998.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Recently angels have made a remarkable comeback in the popular imagination; their real heyday, however, was the Middle Ages. From the great shrines dedicated to Michael the Archangel at Mont-St-Michel and Monte Garano to the elaborate metaphysical speculations of the great thirteenth-centuryscholastics, angels dominated the physical, temporal, and intellectual landscape of the medieval West. This book offers a full-scale study of angels and angelology in the Middle Ages. Seeking to discover how and why angels became so important in medieval society, David Keck considers a wide range of fasci. |
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| Notas: | Warfare, Crusading Ideals, and the Protection of Angels. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (279 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-254) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780195354966 0195354966 1280453370 9781280453373 0585182760 9780585182766 |