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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...
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Oxford University Press,
1998.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: The Plenitude of Medieval Angelology; ONE: The Length of Scripture 1: Sacred History and the Creation; The Angels of History; The Creation and Fall: Controversies and Orthodox Consensus; TWO: The Length of Scripture 2: Angels, Israel, and the Church; Angels and Humans Before the Presentation of the Law: Appearance and Iconography, Bodies, Personhood, and Number; Angels, the Law, and Israel: Worshippers, Guardians, Punishers; Angels and the Incarnation: Subordination to Christ and Mary; Angels and the Church: Continuing Ministries, Paradigms for Church and State.
- Angels and the Last JudgmentTHREE: The Depth and Height of Scripture; Allegories, Typologies, and the Angels' Permeation of the Reader's World; The Angelic Hierarchies; The Individual Orders and their Diverse Ministries; The Hierarchies and the Medieval Church; Conclusion to Part I: The Beauty and Propriety of the Angels; FOUR: Scholasticism and the Transformation of Angelology; The Quaestio and the New Methods of Angelology; The Renewed Interest in Nature and Metaphysics; The Sentences and the Professional Study of the Angels.
- FIVE: The Angelic Nature in the Thirteenth Century: The Flowering of Medieval AngelologyHylomorphism: Are Angels Composed of Form and Matter?; Personhood and Knowledge; Love, Joy, and Sorrow; Location and Motion; Conclusion to Part II: Condemnations, Nominalism, and Completion; SIX: Monks and Mendicants; Angels, Monks, and the Angelic Gaze; St. Francis, His Poor Men, and Angels; SEVEN: Franciscan Angelology and the Crises of the Franciscan Order; Bonaventure's Defense of His Order in Paris; Joachim of Fiore, the Apocalypse, and the Angels of History.
- Gerard of Borgo San Donino and the Revolutionary Possibilities of AngelologyThe Roles of Angelology in the Eschatological Roles of Francis and the Franciscans; The Collationes in Hexaemeron: The Great Angelological Synthesis; Conclusion to Part III: Angelic Popes, Franciscans, and Condemnations; EIGHT: Birth, Maturation, and the Regular Religious Practices of Adults; Conception, Demonic Assaults, and the Guardian Angel; Baptism and Joining the Angelic Community; Chastity, Marriage, or Intramarital Chastity; Regular Devotional Practices; Prayers and the Mediation of Angels.
- Marian Devotion and the Importance of GabrielResponding to Angels: Dulia or Latria; ""Magic"" and the Intercession of Spirits; The Mass: Sensing the Angelic Presence; The Feast of St. Michael and Annual Religious Practices; Hymns, Sermons, Pilgrimages, and Relics; Drama: The Enacting of Angelology; Confession and the Roles of Angels in Penance; Women and Angels: Different from Men's Experiences?; NINE: Exceptional Practices of Adults, Death, and Resurrection; Dreams and Visions: Revelations of Power, Authority, and Danger; Mysticism and the Ecstasy of the Angels.