Elysium
A Visual History of Angelology
$51.81
- Hardcover
400 pages
- Release Date
19 October 2023
Summary
Ineffable, invisible, inscrutable—angels are enduring creatures across Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, and human experiences of the divine as mediated by spiritual emissaries are an aspect of almost every religious tradition. In popular culture, angels are often reduced to the most gauzy, sentimental, and saccharine of images: fat babies with wings and guardians with robes, halos, and harps. By contrast, in scripture whenever one of the heavenly choirs appears before a prophet or patriarch,…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781419767579 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1419767577 |
| Author: | Ed Simon |
| Publisher: | Abrams |
| Imprint: | Abrams |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 400 |
| Release Date: | 19 October 2023 |
| Weight: | 1.74kg |
| Dimensions: | 42mm x 200mm x 258mm |
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Ed Simon
Ed Simon is a scholar, essayist, and cultural critic whose work explores the intersections of literature, religion, art, and history. He is Public Humanities Special Faculty in the English Department at Carnegie Mellon University and serves as Editor-in-Chief of Belt Magazine and The Pittsburgh Review of Books.
Simon is the author of more than a dozen books, including Pandemonium: A Visual History of Demonology, Elysium: A Visual History of Angelology, The Seven Deadly Sins and Seven Heavenly Virtues: A Visual History, and Devil’s Contract: The History of the Faustian Bargain. His work is known for combining rigorous scholarship with accessible prose, bringing complex religious and cultural subjects to a broad readership.
His essays and criticism have appeared in The Atlantic, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Paris Review Daily, LitHub, Poetry, McSweeney’s, Aeon, The New Republic, and elsewhere. He holds a PhD in English from Lehigh University and lives in Pittsburgh.
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