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Title Spirits unseen : the representation of subtle bodies in early modern European culture / edited by Christine Gottler and Wolfgang Neuber.

Publication Info. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2008.

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Description 1 online resource (xxvii, 365 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Intersections, 1568-1181 ; v. 9
Intersections (Boston, Mass.) ; v. 9.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Access Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL
System Details Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
Processing Action digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Language Chiefly in English, with two essays in German.
Subject Spirits -- History.
Spirits.
History.
Europe -- Civilization.
Europe.
Civilization.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Added Author Göttler, Christine.
Neuber, Wolfgang.
Other Form: Print version: Spirits unseen. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2008 9789004163966 9004163964 (DLC) 2007047581 (OCoLC)182621440
ISBN 9789047423591 (electronic book)
9047423593 (electronic book)
9004163964 (Cloth)
9789004163966 (hardback ; alkaline paper)
Standard No. 10.1163/ej.9789004163966.i-367