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Angels & angelology in the Middle Ages / David Keck.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Oxford University Press, 1998.Description: 1 online resource (x, 260 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0585182760
  • 9780585182766
  • 0195354966
  • 9780195354966
  • 9780195110975
  • 0195110978
  • 1280453370
  • 9781280453373
  • 9786610453375
  • 6610453373
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Angels & angelology in the Middle Ages.DDC classification:
  • 235/.3/0902 21
LOC classification:
  • BT966.2 .K43 1998eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction: The Plenitude of Medieval Angelology; ONE: The Length of Scripture 1: Sacred History and the Creation; TWO: The Length of Scripture 2: Angels, Israel, and the Church; THREE: The Depth and Height of Scripture; FOUR: Scholasticism and the Transformation of Angelology; FIVE: The Angelic Nature in the Thirteenth Century: The Flowering of Medieval Angelology; SIX: Monks and Mendicants; SEVEN: Franciscan Angelology and the Crises of the Franciscan Order; EIGHT: Birth, Maturation, and the Regular Religious Practices of Adults.
Summary: Angels have made a remarkable comeback in the popular imagination; their real heyday, however, was the Middle Ages. This text offers a study of angels and angelology in the Middle Ages, seeking to discover how and why angels became so important in medieval society.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-254) and indexes.

Print version record.

Introduction: The Plenitude of Medieval Angelology; ONE: The Length of Scripture 1: Sacred History and the Creation; TWO: The Length of Scripture 2: Angels, Israel, and the Church; THREE: The Depth and Height of Scripture; FOUR: Scholasticism and the Transformation of Angelology; FIVE: The Angelic Nature in the Thirteenth Century: The Flowering of Medieval Angelology; SIX: Monks and Mendicants; SEVEN: Franciscan Angelology and the Crises of the Franciscan Order; EIGHT: Birth, Maturation, and the Regular Religious Practices of Adults.

Angels have made a remarkable comeback in the popular imagination; their real heyday, however, was the Middle Ages. This text offers a study of angels and angelology in the Middle Ages, seeking to discover how and why angels became so important in medieval society.

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