| List of illustrations | Page ix | ||
| Notes on contributors | xii | ||
| Preface and acknowledgements | xiv | ||
| 1 | Migrations of angels in the early modern world | 1 | |
| PETER MARSHALL AND ALEXANDRA WALSHAM | |||
| 2 | The Renaissance angel | 41 | |
| BRUCE GORDON | |||
| 3 | Luther on the angels | 64 | |
| PHILIP M. SOERGEL | |||
| 4 | Angels around the deathbed: variations on a theme in the English art of dying | 83 | |
| PETER MARSHALL | |||
| 5 | Angels conquering and conquered: changing perceptions in Spanish America | 104 | |
| FERNANDO CERVANTES | |||
| 6 | Angels and idols in England’s long Reformation | 134 | |
| ALEXANDRA WALSHAM | |||
| 7 | Dubious messengers: Bodin’s daemon, the spirit world and the Sadducees | 168 | |
| ROBIN BRIGGS | |||
| 8 | Guardian angels and the Society of Jesus | 191 | |
| TREVOR JOHNSON | |||
| 9 | Imagining angels in early modern Ireland | 214 | |
| RAYMOND GILLESPIE | |||
| 10 | ‘Patronage of angels and combat of demons’: good versus evil in seventeenth-century Spain | 233 | |
| MARÍA TAUSIET (translated by Adrian J. Pearce) | |||
| 11 | ‘With the tongues of angels’: angelic conversations in Paradise Lost and seventeenth-century England | 256 | |
| JOAD RAYMOND | |||
| 12 | Otherworldly visions: angels, devils and gender in puritan New England | 282 | |
| ELIZABETH REIS | |||
| 13 | Angels in elite and popular magic, 1650–1790 | 297 | |
| OWEN DAVIES | |||
| Index | 320 |