| Description |
1 online resource (xxvii, 365 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Intersections, 1568-1181 ; v. 9 |
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Intersections (Boston, Mass.) ; v. 9.
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| Contents |
Vapours and veils : the edge of the unseen / Christine Gottler -- Poltergeist the prequel : aspects of other worldly disturbances in early modern times / Wolfgang Neuber -- Fire, smoke and vapour, Jan Brueghel's "poetic hell' : ghespoock in early modern European art / Christine Gottler -- Moveable feasts of reason : description, intelligence, and the excitation of sight / Bret Rothstein -- Images in the air : optical games, magic, and imagination / Sven Dupre -- 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 eficacy 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 Charakterkopfe / Axel Christoph Gampp |
| Summary |
Investigating the meanings and uses of spiritus in a variety of early modern disciplines and fields - natural philosophy, theology, music, literature and the visual arts - this book revisits the ambivalent history of a central ancient concept in a period of crisis and change |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Chiefly in English, with two essays in German |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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| Subject |
Spirits -- History
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BODY, MIND & SPIRIT -- Spiritualism.
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Civilization
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Spirits
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Erscheinungen
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Geisterglaube
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Gespenst
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Spuk
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Unsichtbarkeit
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Geist
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Vision
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Geesten.
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Verbeelding.
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Europe -- Civilization.
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Europe
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Europa (geografie)
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Göttler, Christine.
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Neuber, Wolfgang
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| ISBN |
9789047423591 |
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9047423593 |
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1281937118 |
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9781281937117 |
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9786611937119 |
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6611937110 |
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