Spirits Unseen: The Representation of Subtle Bodies in Early Modern European Culture

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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