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Spirits unseen : the representation of subtle bodies in early modern European culture /
Investigating the meanings and uses of spiritus in a variety of early modern disciplines and fields - natural philosophy, theology, music, literature and the visual arts - this book revisits the ambivalent history of a central ancient concept in a period of crisis and change.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Alemán |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2008.
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| Colección: | Intersections (Boston, Mass.) ;
v. 9. |
| Temas: | |
| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Vapours and veils : the edge of the unseen / Christine Gottler
- Poltergeist the prequel : aspects of other worldly disturbances in early modern times / Wolfgang Neuber
- Fire, smoke and vapour, Jan Brueghel's "poetic hell' : ghespoock in early modern European art / Christine Gottler
- Moveable feasts of reason : description, intelligence, and the excitation of sight / Bret Rothstein
- Images in the air : optical games, magic, and imagination / Sven Dupre
- Material gazes and flying images in Marsilio Ficino and Michelangelo / Berthold Hub
- Spirits of love: Castiglione and Neo-Platonic discourses of vision / Wietse de Boer
- Painting's enchanting poison : artistic eficacy and the transfer of spirits / Thijs Weststeijn
- "Singe the enchantment for sleepe" : music and bewitched sleep in early modern English drama / Sarah F. Williams
- Bilder des Unsichtbaren : Robert Fludd's Konzeption des Weltgeistes / Wilhelm Schmidt-Biggemann
- Sympathy in Eden : on paradise with the fall of man by Rubens and Brueghel / Paul J. Smith
- Dizzying visions : St. Teresa of Jesus and the embodied visual image / Rose Marie San Juan
- Spirit as intermediary in post-Cartesian natural philosophy / Justin E.H. Smith
- The motions of laughter : allegory and physiology in Walter Charleton's Natural history of the passions (1674) / Dawn Morgan
- Ghosts in the machine : the apparition of Mrs. Veal, Rowe's friendship in death, and the early eighteenth-century invisible world / Jennifer Frangos
- Die Geburt des Kunstwerks durch den Geist der Proportion : Franz Xavier Messerschmidt und seine Charakterkopfe / Axel Christoph Gampp.