Conversations with Angels

1. Introduction
Joad Raymond

Part I. Natural Philosophy

2. Strategies of Interspecies Communication, 1100–2000
Walter Stephens

3. Angels and the Physics of Place in the Early Fourteenth Century
James Steven Byrne

4. Galileian Angels
Nick Wilding

5. Newtonian Angels
Simon Schaffer

Part II. Magic

6. Speaking with Spirits in Medieval Magic Texts
Sophie Page

7. False Illuding Spirits & Cownterfeiting Deuills: John Dee’s Angelic Conversations and Religious Anxiety
Stephen Clucas

8. ‘Behold, the dreamer cometh’: Hyperphysical Magic and Deific Visions in an Early-Modern Theosophical Lab-Oratory
Peter J. Forshaw

Part III. Representation

9. Singing with the Angels: Hildegard of Bingen’s Representations of Celestial Music
William T. Flynn

10. ‘And the angel said…’: Conversations with Angels in Early Modern Music
Jessie Ann Owens

11. Athanasius Kircher’s Guardian Angel
Ingrid D. Rowland

12. Catholic Reformation and the Cult of Angels in Early Modern England
Alexandra Walsham

Part IV. Reformations

13. The Guardian Angel in Protestant England
Peter Marshall

14. Radicalism and Mysticism in the Later Seventeenth Century: John Pordage’s Angels
Joad Raymond

Keywords: History, European History, History of Philosophy, History of Medieval Europe, History of Religion, Modern History, Social History