Conversations with Angels

Conversations with Angels
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Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 647
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ISBN-10 : 9780230316973
ISBN-13 : 0230316972
Rating : 4/5 (73 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Conversations with Angels by : J. Raymond

Download or read book Conversations with Angels written by J. Raymond and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-08-09 with total page 647 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 medieval and early modern Europe, and how they explained and represented these conversations.


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