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Spirits unseen : the representation of subtle bodies in early modern European culture / edited by Christine Göttler and Wolfgang Neuber.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Intersections (Boston, Mass.) ; v. 9.
- Intersections, 1568-1181 ; v. 9
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Spirits--History.
- Spirits.
- History.
- Europe--Civilization.
- Europe.
- Civilization.
- Physical Description:
- xxvii, 365 pages, 1 unnumbered page of plates : illustrations (1 folded) ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2008.
- Contents:
- Vapours and veils: the edge of the unseen / Christine Göttler
- Poltergeist the prequel: aspects of other worldly disturbances in early modern times / Wolfgang Neuber
- Fire, smoke and vapour, Jan Brueghel's "poetic hells": 'ghespoock' in early modern European art / Christine Göttler
- Moveable feasts of reason: description, intelligence, and the excitation of sight / Bret Rothstein
- Images in the air: optical games, magic and imagination / Sven Dupré
- Material gazes and flying images in Marsilio Ficino and Michelangelo / Berthold Hub
- Spirits of love: Castiglione and Neo-Platonic discourses of vision / Wietse de Boer
- Painting's enchanting poison: artistic efficacy and the transfer of spirits / Thijs Weststeijn
- Singe the enchantment for sleepe: music and bewitched sleep in early modern English drama / Sarah F. Williams
- Bilder des Unsichtbaren: Robert Fludd's Konzeption des Weltgeistes / Wilhelm Schmidt-Biggemann
- Sympathy in Eden: on Paradise with the fall of man by Rubens and Brueghel / Paul J. Smith
- Dizzying visions: St. Teresa of Jesus and the embodied visual image / Rose Marie San Juan
- Spirit as intermediary in post-Cartesian natural philosophy / Justin E.H. Smith
- The motions of laughter: allegory and physiology in Walter Charleton's Natural history of the passions (1674) / Dawn Morgan
- Ghosts in the machine: the apparition of Mrs. Veal, Rowe's Friendship in death, and the early eighteenth-century invisible world / Jennifer Frangos
- Die Geburt des Kunstwerks durch den Geist der Proportion: Franz Xavier Messerschmidt und seine Charakterköpfe / Axel Christoph Gampp.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9789004163966
- 9004163964
- OCLC:
- 182621440
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