Angels and Angelology in the Middle Ages

by David Keck

Recently angels have made a remarkable comeback in the popular imagination; their real heyday, however, was the Middle Ages. From the great shrines dedicated to Michael the Archangel at Mont-St-Michel and Monte Garano to the elaborate metaphysical speculations of the great thirteenth-century scholastics, angels dominated the physical, temporal, and intellectual landscape of the medieval West.

This book offers a full-scale study of angels and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195110978
• ISBN13: 9780195110975
• Release Date: July 1998
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.3"