Angels & angelology in the Middle Ages / David Keck.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Keck, David, 1965- author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Angels--History of doctrines--Middle Ages, 600-1500.

Angels.

Angels--Cult.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (279 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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

NINE: Exceptional Practices of Adults, Death, and ResurrectionConclusion: The Harvest of Medieval Angelology; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 1998.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-254) and indexes.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

0-19-773820-6

1-280-45337-0

0-19-535496-6

0-585-18276-0

OCLC:

191924528