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Spirits unseen : the representation of subtle bodies in early modern European culture
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Spirits unseen : the representation of subtle bodies in early modern European culture

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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.

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