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Spirits Unseen: The Representation of Subtle Bodies in Early Modern European Culture (Intersections) By Christine Gottler, Wolfgang Neuber

Investigating the meanings and uses of spiritus in a variety of early modern disciplines and fields—natural philosophy, theology, music, literature and the visual arts—this book revisits the ambivalent history of a central ancient concept in a period of crisis and change.

CONTENTS

Acknowledgements ..................................................................... vii

Notes on the Editors of this Volume ......................................... ix

List of Contributors .................................................................... xi

Preface: Vapours and Veils: The Edge of the Unseen .............. xv

Christine Göttler

Poltergeist the Prequel: Aspects of Otherworldly Disturbances

in Early Modern Times .......................................................... 1

Wolfgang Neuber

Fire, Smoke and Vapour. Jan Brueghel’s ‘Poetic Hells’:

‘Ghespoock’ in Early Modern European Art ........................ 19

Christine Göttler

Moveable Feasts of Reason: Description, Intelligence, and

the Excitation of Sight ........................................................... 47

Bret Rothstein

Images in the Air: Optical Games, Magic and Imagination .... 71

Sven Dupré

Material Gazes and Flying Images in Marsilio Ficino and

Michelangelo ........................................................................... 93

Berthold Hub

Spirits of Love: Castiglione and Neo-Platonic Discourses

of Vision ................................................................................. 121

Wietse de Boer

‘Painting’s Enchanting Poison’: Artistic Efficacy and the

Transfer of Spirits .................................................................. 141

Thijs Weststeijn

‘Singe the Enchantment for Sleepe’: Music and Bewitched

Sleep in Early Modern English Drama ................................. 179

Sarah F. Williams

Bilder des Unsichtbaren: Robert Fludds Konzeption des

Weltgeistes ............................................................................... 197

Wilhelm Schmidt-Biggemann

Sympathy in Eden. On Paradise with the Fall of Man

by Rubens and Brueghel ........................................................ 211

Paul J. Smith

Dizzying Visions. St. Teresa of Jesus and the Embodied

Visual Image ........................................................................... 245

Rose Marie San Juan

Spirit as Intermediary in Post-Cartesian Natural Philosophy ... 269

Justin E.H. Smith

The Motions of Laughter: Allegory and Physiology in

Walter Charleton’s Natural History of the Passions (1674) ......... 293

Dawn Morgan

Ghosts in the Machine: The Apparition of Mrs. Veal,

Rowe’s Friendship in Death and the Early Eighteenth-Century

Invisible World ........................................................................ 313

Jennifer Frangos

Die Geburt des Kunstwerks durch den Geist der Proportion.

Franz Xaver Messerschmidt und seine Charakterköpfe ........ 331

Axel Christoph Gampp

List of Illustrations ...................................................................... 355

Index Nominum ......................................................................... 361

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