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Conversations with Angels
9-10 September 2005
an interdisciplinary conference at CRASSH, Cambridge
Organized by Lauren Kassell and Joad Raymond
Further details and a booking form will soon be posted on:
http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2004-5/angels.html
Provisional Programme
Speaking with Spirits: The Medieval Quest for Celestial Knowledge and
Elevation
Sophie Page (University College London)
Strategies of Interspecies Communication, 1100-1700
Walter Stephens (Johns Hopkins University)
Style and Substance in a Conversation with Angels: The Case of Trithemius
Anthony Grafton (Princeton University)
The Guardian Angel in Protestant England
Peter Marshall (University of Warwick)
Angels in Early Modern Music
Jessie Ann Owens (Brandeis University)
Evil Angels and Visual Paradoxes
Stuart Clark (University of Wales at Swansea)
Tongues of Angels: Mysticism and Theological Politics, 1640-1660
Joad Raymond (University of East Anglia)
The Ecstatic Journey of Athanasius Kircher, 1656
Ingrid Rowland (Princeton University)
Respondents include Stephen Clucas, Juliet Fleming, Peter Forshaw, Kate
Harvey, Frank Klaassen, Catherine Rider, Alexandra Walsham
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Dr Lauren Kassell
University Lecturer in History & Philosophy of Science
Fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge
+44 1223 (7)67173 (HPS)
+44 1223 (3)30897 (Pembroke)
*Medicine and Magic in Elizabethan London: Simon Forman, Astrologer,
Alchemist and Physician* Available now through all good bookshops, or
direct from Oxford University Press at:
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