Conversations with Angels Essays Towards a History of Spiritual Comm
Based on refractions of earlier beliefs, modern angels - at once terrible and comforting, frighteningly other and reassuringly beneficent - have acquired a powerful symbolic value. This interdisciplinary study looks at how humans conversed with angels in
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Also by Joad Raymond MAKING THE NEWS: An Anthology of the Newsbooks of Revolutionary England 1641–1660 (edited) (1993) THE INVENTION OF THE NEWSPAPER: English Newsbooks, 1641–1649 (1996; 2005) NEWS, NEWSPAPERS AND SOCIETY IN EARLY MODERN BRITAIN (edited) (1999) MILTON AND THE TERMS OF LIBERTY (edited with Graham Parry) (2002) PAMPHLETS AND PAMPHLETEERING IN EARLY MODERN BRITAIN (2003) NEWS NETWORKS IN SEVENTEENTH CENTURY BRITAIN AND EUROPE (edited) (2006) MILTON’S ANGELS: The Early-Modern Imagination (2010) THE OXFORD HISTORY OF POPULAR PRINT CULTURE: Volume one: CHEAP PRINT IN BRITAIN AND IRELAND TO 1660 (edited) (2011)
Conversations with Angels Essays Towards a History of Spiritual Communication, 1100–1700 Edited by
Joad Raymond Professor of English Literature, University of East Anglia, UK
Selection and editorial content © Joad Raymond 2011 Individual chapters © Contributors 2011 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2011 978-0-230-55203-6
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ISBN 978-1-349-36260-8 ISBN 978-0-230-31697-3 (eBook) DOI 10.1057/9780230316973 This book is printed on paper suitable for recycling and made from fully managed and sustained forest sources. Logging, pulping and manufacturing processes are expected to conform to the environmental regulations of the country of origin. A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Conversations with angels : essays towards a history of spiritual communication, 1100–1700 / [edited by] Joad Raymond. p. cm. Includes index. 1. Angels –Christianity – Early works to 1800. 2. Spiritual life – Christianity. 3. Communication – Religious aspects – Christianity. 4. Angels in popular culture. 5. Angels in literature. I. Raymo
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