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Author Keck, David, 1965-

Title Angels & angelology in the Middle Ages / David Keck
Published New York : Oxford University Press, 1998

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Description 1 online resource (x, 260 pages) : illustrations
Series OUP E-Books
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
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-254) and indexes
Notes Print version record
Subject Angels -- History of doctrines -- Middle Ages, 600-1500
Angels -- Cult.
RELIGION -- Christian Theology -- Angelology & Demonology.
Angels -- Cult
Engelen.
Form Electronic book
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