Angels and Angelology in the Middle AgesOxford University Press, 23.07.1998 - 280 Seiten Recently angels have made a remarkable comeback in the popular imagination; their real heyday, however, was the Middle Ages. From the great shrines dedicated to Michael the Archangel at Mont-St-Michel and Monte Garano to the elaborate metaphysical speculations of the great thirteenth-century scholastics, angels dominated the physical, temporal, and intellectual landscape of the medieval West. This book offers a full-scale study of angels and angelology in the Middle Ages. Seeking to discover how and why angels became so important in medieval society, David Keck considers a wide range of fascinating questions such as: Why do angels appear on baptismal fonts? How and why did angels become normative for certain members of the church? How did they become a required course of study? Did popular beliefs about angels diverge from the angelologies of the theologians? Why did some heretics claim to derive their authority from heavenly spirits? Keck spreads his net wide in the attempt to catch traces of angels and angelic beliefs in as many portions of the medieval world as possible. Metaphysics and mystery plays, prayers and pilgrimages, Cathars and cathedrals-all these and many more disparate sources taken together reveal a society deeply engaged with angels on all its levels and in some unlikely ways. |
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SCRIPTURE THE FOUNDATION OF ANGELOLOGY | 11 |
Photos | 71 |
ANGELS THE PHILOSOPHER AND THE UNIVERSITY THE NATURE OF THE ANGELS | 71 |
ANGELS AND RELIGIOUS ORDERS | 115 |
ANGELS AND THE MEDIEVAL CHURCH | 155 |
The Harvest of Medieval Angelology | 209 |
Notes | 213 |
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Alexander Nequam Alexander of Hales anagogical angelic nature angelology Apocalypse Aquinas Aquinas's archangel argued Augustine Bernard biblical Bonaventure Caesarius Celestial Hierarchy chap chapter cherubim Christ church Commentary contemplation context creation creatures Cronica demons depictions devotional Dialogus dieval discussion divine doctrine example exegesis exegetes explore feast Francis Francis's Franciscans Friars gels Genesis Gerard God's Gregory guardian angel Hexaemeron hierarchy of angels Holy Hugh of Saint human hylomorphism important Jacobus Joachim Legenda Maior liturgical Lombard Mary matter medieval medieval angelology medieval Christians metaphysical Middle Ages monastic monks Monte Gargano mystical nine orders Opera orders of angels Paris patristic Peter Lombard philosophical pope prayers present Pseudo-Dionysius quaestio question reading religious roles Saint Michael Saint Victor Salimbene Salimbene de Adam scholastics Scripture Sentences Seraphic Doctor seraphim Sermons significance Similarly soul specific speculation story Summa theologians theological thirteenth century tion traditional trans twelfth century understanding University vision
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