UID:
edocfu_9959243907502883
Format:
1 online resource (279 pages)
ISBN:
0-19-773820-6
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1-280-45337-0
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0-19-535496-6
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0-585-18276-0
Series Statement:
Oxford scholarship online
Content:
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.
Note:
Previously issued in print: 1998.
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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
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NINE: Exceptional Practices of Adults, Death, and ResurrectionConclusion: The Harvest of Medieval Angelology; Notes; Bibliography; Index
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-19-511097-8
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1093/oso/9780195110975.001.0001
