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

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.

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

• Authors: Claire Fanger
• Assisted by: Claire Fanger (Editor), Claire (Rice University) Fanger (Editor), Fanger Claire (Editor)
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.02.2012
• EAN: 9780271051420
• ISBN: 978-0-271-05142-0
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 35 mm
• Weight: 726 g
• Illustrations: Raster,schwarz-weiss
• Series: Magic in History
• Subjects: 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