miltons angels the early-modern imagination may 2010

[...]... hanging at the end of them They made no great matter of these Bookes &c: because they understood them not; wch occasioned their Servant Maide to wast about one halfe of them under Pyes & other like uses, wch when they discovered, they kept the rest more safe About two yeares after these discovery of these Bookes, M:r Jones died, & when the fire of London hapned, ::::::::::::: the Chest perished in the Flames,... times: from the oven, two are resurrected from conflagration after angels demand their burning, and they survive the Great Fire of London, though there seems little reason to save them Then the widow marries a warder in the Tower of London, educated enough to recognize something in these introduction 3 books—magical symbols, pictures of angels that causes him to bring them into the hands of the man uniquely... angelology, the convergence of epic poems around angels, the importance of accommodation to theology and poetics, and the association between angels and representation, in doctrinal as well as literary writings—that I describe this as a book about the early modern imagination The imagination, with the gift of the spirit—which is not to say the inspiration of the Romantic poet so much as that of the religious... rebel angels He uses them to make mistakes, to sin, to argue, to bind together the celestial narratives with the terrestrial The story of Paradise Lost is told by and of angels; it relies upon their conflicts, communications, and miscommunications They are the creatures of God but also the creatures of Milton’s narrative Milton makes the Fall morally ponderous, tragic, and part of the fabric of the universe... Introduction: Protestant Angels, Poets, the Imagination xv xvi 1 I U N D E R S T A N D I N G A N G E L S 2 Angelographia: Writing about Angels 3 Angelology: Knowledge of Angels 4 A Stronger Existence: Angels, Polemic, and Radical Speculation, 1640–1660 5 Conversations with Angels: The Pordages and their Angelical World 6 The Fleshly Imagination and the Word of God 7 Spiritual Gifts: Angels, Inspiration,... connected to other, dynamic concerns, to be reduced to confessional politics There was, then, in Britain, no decline in interest in angels, or clear shift away from traditional theological concerns Instead there was a developing and enlarged understanding of the role of angels in nature and theology that interacted with developments in other areas of theology, politics, and culture Angels were part of the intellectual... the Angels (Athens, Ga., 1955) Arnold Williams, The Common Expositor: An Account of the Commentaries on Genesis, 1527–1633 (Chapel Hill, NC, 1948) Norman Powell Williams, The Ideas of the Fall and of Original Sin (1929) 1 Introduction Protestant Angels, Poets, the Imagination Actions with Angels On 10 September 1672 Thomas Wale brought his wife to see the antiquary Elias Ashmole, and she told him the. .. at the University of East Anglia, the Folger Shakespeare Library, the Library of Congress, Cambridge University Library, the Bodleian Library, the British Library, the Public Record Office, the Wellcome Library, the Bei necke Library, the Firestone Library at Princeton University and the library at the Princeton Theological Seminary, the New York Public Library, and the university libraries in Charlottesville,... representation and the sacred world, and the place of angels in imaginative writing, proliferate, opening different claims upon truth and inspiration These are the various arguments of Milton’s Angels: The Early Modern Imagination I do not personally believe in angels, God, or the Devil This is a question I have had repeatedly to answer over the past few years.13 There is clear room for a dialogue between the present... is the close association between angels and Protestant theories of representation This is not opportunism on my part: when theologians sought to explain or explore notions of representing the invisible, from the thirteenth century to the seventeenth, they turned to the question of how angels, immaterial spirits, made themselves visible to humans The association between angels and representation is a . with Angels: The Pordages and their Angelical World 125 6. The Fleshly Imagination and the Word of God 162 7. Spiritual Gifts: Angels, Inspiration, and Prophecy 189 II. MILTON’S ANGELS 8. Can Angels. of the same wood, hanging at the end of them. They made no great matter of these Bookes &c: because they understood them not; w ch occasioned their Servant Maide to wast about one halfe of them. Library, the Bodleian Library, the British Library, the Public Record Office, the Wellcome Library, the Bei necke Library, the Firestone Library at Princeton University and the library at the Princeton