Invoking Angels - Theurgic Ideas and Practices, Thirteenth to Sixteenth Centuries

Invoking Angels brings together a tightly themed collection of essays on late medieval and early modern texts concerned with the role of angels in the cosmos, focusing on angelic rituals and spiritual cosmologies. Collectively, these essays tie medieval angel magic texts more clearly to medieval religion and to the better-known author-magicians of the early modern period. In the process of rearticulating the understanding of Christian angel magic, contributors examine the places where an intersection of Christian, Jewish, and Islamic ideas can be identified.

Aside from the editor, the contributors are Harvey J. Hames, Frank Klaassen, Katelyn Mesler, Sophie Page, Jan R. Veenstra, Julien Véronèse, Nicolas Weill-Parot, and Elliot R. Wolfson.

About the author

Claire Fanger is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Rice University. She is the editor of Conjuring Spirits: Texts and Traditions of Medieval Ritual Magic (Penn State, 1998).

Summary

A collection of essays examining medieval and early modern texts aimed at performing magic or receiving illumination via the mediation of angels. Includes discussion of Jewish, Christian and Muslim texts.

Product details

• Assisted by: Claire Fanger (Editor), Claire (Rice University) Fanger (Editor), Fanger Claire (Editor)
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.11.2015
• EAN: 9780271051437
• ISBN: 978-0-271-05143-7
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 10 mm
• Weight: 590 g
• Illustrations: Raster,schwarz-weiss
• Series: Magic in History
• Subjects: Guides > Spirituality > Ancient knowledge, ancient cultures; Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; RELIGION / History, BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / Magick Studies, RELIGION / Christian Theology / Angelology & Demonology, Christianity, History of Religion, Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, Magic, alchemy & hermetic thought, HISTORY / Europe / Medieval, HISTORY / Europe / Renaissance