Spirits unseen : the representation of subtle bodies in early modern European culture / / edited by Christine Gottler and Wolfgang Neuber.
Spirits – airy, volatile ‘subtle bodies' – occupied a central place in early modern European culture. At the edge of the visible and perceptible, spiritus could signify a broad variety of subtle substances, both natural and divine: the vapours moving inside the body, the elements of air and fir...
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Year of Publication: | 2008 |
Edition: | 1st ed. |
Language: | English |
Series: | Intersections
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (395 p.) |
Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of 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.