Angels & angelology in the Middle Ages / David Keck.
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Oxford University Press, 1998.Description: 1 online resource (x, 260 pages) : illustrationsContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 0585182760
- 9780585182766
- 0195354966
- 9780195354966
- 9780195110975
- 0195110978
- 1280453370
- 9781280453373
- 9786610453375
- 6610453373
- 235/.3/0902 21
- BT966.2 .K43 1998eb
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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