Skip to content
Libra Esoterica

Aisthetics of the spirits

spirits in early modern science, religion, literature and music

by Steffen Schneider

  • First published:
  • 21st century
  • Languages: English, German

The idea of "spirit" has manifold meanings and plays a crucial role in Early Modern medicine, psychology, religion, natural philosophy, and cosmology. This book contains twenty papers, written by international experts ; it explores how those disciplines conceived of the spirits and shows that knowledge of the spirits is an essential prerequisite for the understanding of Renaissance literature and music. The volume focuses on the way in which the spirits act upon the soul's perception, imagination, and cognition, and on the cultural practices which aim to use, purge, or ban the spirits

Provenance

Why this book is in the catalog

Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Spiritualism, mediumship, and channeling.

  • Controlled discovery queries from austrian-library-network and swisscovery matched “Spiritismus”. Retained metadata contains “Spiritismus” in the subject metadata and “Spiritismus” in the edition notes.

    • Spiritismus· via Austrian Library Network — OBV-LIT
    • Spiritismus· via swisscovery — Swiss Library Service Platform
    • Spiritismus· in subject
    • Spiritismus· in edition notes

Membership records how this book met the catalog’s discovery criteria — relevance to a tradition, not a judgment of the book’s claims.

Read & download

Where a scan or ebook exists, it is listed here.

No public full text is known for this record.

None of our sources reported a scan or ebook. It may exist elsewhere — these searches are a good next step.

Buy or borrow

Links to ISBN 3847104233; other editions may be cheaper. WorldCat shows libraries near you that hold a copy.

Editions

One edition cataloged here.

spirits in early modern science, religion, literature and music

swisscovery network catalog record

24 cm; 28 illustrations (some color), music; 509 pages; Bd. 1; Beitr. teilw. dt., teilw. engl; Beiträge deutsch oder englisch; Die aisthetische Dimension der Geistwesen in der frühen Neuzeit = The aisthetics of spirits in the Early Modern period / Steffen Schneider -- Der Heilige geist in handschriftlichen liturgischen Quellen des Mittelalters / Patrizia Carmassi -- Der Heilige Geist als Liebe bei Petrus Lombardus und Luther : Gottes Liebe zum Menschen und des Menschen Liebe zu Gott in der augustinischen Tradition / Tobias Georges -- Dan Atem des Weltalls schöpfen : Marsilio Ficino zur Rezeption des Spiritus Mundi / Christoph Steppich -- Melanchthon's theory of spirit as a bridge between galen, Ficino and Luther / Grantley McDonald -- Spirit in Giordano Bruno's magical works / Delfina Giovannozzi -- Dantes spiritus und die Wahrheit der Dichtung / Jan Söffner -- Aristotelische "Geisteraisthetik"? : Konzeptionelle Poetologie und purgierende Praxis des Spiritismus in italienischen Komödien der Renaissance / Angela Oster -- Shakespeares Theater der Geister : Spiritus-Konzepte in The tempest / Sibylle Baumbach -- Modell Orpheus : die Erfindung des virtuosen Instrumentalisten aus den Bedingungen der Spiritus-Konzeption / Melanie Wald-Fuhrmann -- "Muste doch Sanct Bernhard an aller seiner Muencherey verzweiveln" : Martin Luther using Bernard of Clairvaux in the dispute on monastic life's purity / Tobias Georges -- Exorcism, conjuration and the historiography of early modern ritual magic / Stephen Clucas -- "Morbo spirituali medicina spiritualis convenit" : Paracelsus, madness, and spirits / Peter J. Forshaw -- Interaktionen von Dämonen und Menschen im Wege der Besessenheit : Auffassungen über das Handeln von spiritus maligni gegenüber Menschen und erforderliche Gegenmassnahmen im südeuropäischen Katholizismus der zweiten Hälfte des 16. Jahrhunderts, dargestellt anhand des Sacerdotale Romanum und der Handbücher für die exorzistische Praxis des Franziskaner-Minoriten Girolamo Menghi / Carlos Watzka -- Fascinatio : Bildreflexion und Wirkungsästhetik in der Dichtung Pierre de Ronsards / Bettina Full -- Priscianus im Fegefeuer : Fischarts Schreibpraxis zwischen Dämonologie und grammatischer Purgatio / Philipp Theisohn -- What makes Shakespeare so inspiring? / Bruce R. Smith -- Contrapunctus enim intentiones affectionesque animi imitatur et verba : some reflections on the philosophical background of word painting during the Renaissance / Brenno Boccadoro -- Spiritus mundi, spiritus musicae? / Christopher I. Lehrich -- Music, spirit and ecclesiastical politics in Elizabethan England : John Case and his Apologia musices / Grantley McDonald; epiFaNIen; Includes bibliographical references and index; Literaturangaben; swisscovery holding institutions: 41SLSP_BCUFR, 41SLSP_RZS, 41SLSP_UBE, 41SLSP_UBS, 41SLSP_UGE, 41SLSP_UZB; V&R Academic

2015V & R unipress; V&R unipressEnglish, German
  • 9783847004233
  • 9783847104230
  • 3847104233
Catalog record

Subjects

22 subject headings

Identifiers & provenance

How this record was assembled, and the authority identifiers it carries.

Identifiers

Austrian control number
  • AC12408182
Austrian Library Network
  • 990122650290203331
swisscovery
  • 991058185039705501

Cataloged from

Catalog id
swisscovery:991058185039705501
Edition coverage
Multi source partial
Retrieved