Angels of Light? - Sanctity and the Discernment of Spirits in the Early Modern Period

This volume explores individual responses to the problem of discernment of spirits, and the adjacent problem of true and false holiness in the period following the European Reformations.

About the author

Jan Machielsen, DPhil (2011) in History, University of Oxford, is a Junior Research Fellow at Balliol College, Oxford and a British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow. He has published several articles on the interplay of demonology and late humanism.

Clare Copeland, DPhil (2010) in Theology, University of Oxford is a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Early Modern Catholicism at Somerville College, Oxford. Her monograph on canonization in early modern Italy is forthcoming with Oxford University Press

Product details

• Assisted by: Clare Copeland (Editor), Johannes Machielsen (Editor)
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.11.2012
• EAN: 9789004233690
• ISBN: 978-90-04-23369-0
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 239 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 635 g
• Series: Studies in Medieval and Reform
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity