Angels and Angelology in the Middle Ages -

David Keck

Oxford University Press

1998

288 páginas

9h 36m

ISBN-13: 9780195110975

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.