Elf Queens And Holy Friars

Author : Richard Firth Green
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812248430
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Elf Queens and Holy Friars written by Richard Firth Green and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2016-09-28 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Starting from the assumption of a far greater cultural gulf between the learned and the lay in the medieval world than between rich and poor, Elf Queens explores the church's systematic campaign to demonize fairies and infernalize fairyland and the responses this provoked in vernacular romance.

Author : Richard Firth Green
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812293169
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Elf Queens and Holy Friars written by Richard Firth Green and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2016-09-26 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Elf Queens and Holy Friars Richard Firth Green investigates an important aspect of medieval culture that has been largely ignored by modern literary scholarship: the omnipresent belief in fairyland. Taking as his starting point the assumption that the major cultural gulf in the Middle Ages was less between the wealthy and the poor than between the learned and the lay, Green explores the church's systematic demonization of fairies and infernalization of fairyland. He argues that when medieval preachers inveighed against the demons that they portrayed as threatening their flocks, they were in reality often waging war against fairy beliefs. The recognition that medieval demonology, and indeed pastoral theology, were packed with coded references to popular lore opens up a whole new avenue for the investigation of medieval vernacular culture. Elf Queens and Holy Friars offers a detailed account of the church's attempts to suppress or redirect belief in such things as fairy lovers, changelings, and alternative versions of the afterlife. That the church took these fairy beliefs so seriously suggests that they were ideologically loaded, and this fact makes a huge difference in the way we read medieval romance, the literary genre that treats them most explicitly. The war on fairy beliefs increased in intensity toward the end of the Middle Ages, becoming finally a significant factor in the witch-hunting of the Renaissance.

Author : Richard Firth Green
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Poets and Princepleasers written by Richard Firth Green and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 039334178X
Total Pages : 439 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Selected Canterbury Tales: A New Verse Translation written by Geoffrey Chaucer and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2012-03-27 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fisher's work is a vivid, lively, and readable translation of the most famous work of England's premier medieval poet. Preserving Chaucer's rhyme and meter and faithfully articulating his poetic voice, Fisher makes Chaucer's tales accessible to a contemporary ear.

Author : Michael Ostling
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 113758520X
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fairies, Demons, and Nature Spirits written by Michael Ostling and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-11-23 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the fairies, demons, and nature spirits haunting the margins of Christendom from late-antique Egypt to early modern Scotland to contemporary Amazonia. Contributions from anthropologists, folklorists, historians and religionists explore Christian strategies of encompassment and marginalization, and the ‘small gods’ undisciplined tendency to evade such efforts at exorcism. Lurking in forest or fairy-mound, chuckling in dark corners of the home or of the demoniac’s body, the small gods both define and disturb the borders of a religion that is endlessly syncretistic and in endless, active denial of its own syncretism. The book will be of interest to students of folklore, indigenous Christianity, the history of science, and comparative religion.

Author : Richard Firth Green
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 9780812218091
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Crisis of Truth written by Richard Firth Green and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2002-05 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Green's work is of the greatest importance for the understanding of a crucial period in the history of English writing and institutions, and a crucial shift in patterns of cognition."—Derek Pearsall, Harvard University

Author : Rachel S. McCoppin
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476625751
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Hero's Quest and the Cycles of Nature written by Rachel S. McCoppin and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2016-10-13 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This examination of the heroic journey in world mythology casts the protagonist as a personification of nature--a "botanical hero" one might say--who begins the quest in a metaphorical seed-like state, then sprouts into a period of verdant strength. But the hero must face a mythic underworld where he or she contends with mortality and sacrifice--embracing death as a part of life. For centuries, humans have sought superiority over nature, yet the botanical hero finds nothing is lost by recognizing that one is merely a part of nature. Instead, a cyclical promise of continuous life is realized, in which no element fully disappears, and the hero's message is not to dwell on death.

Author : Darren Oldridge
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134442157
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Strange Histories written by Darren Oldridge and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-08-02 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Strange Histories presents a serious account of some of the most extraordinary occurrences of European and North American history and explains how they made sense to people living at the time. Using case studies from the Middle Ages and the early modern period, this book provides fascinating insights into the world-view of a vanished age and shows how such occurences fitted in quite naturally with the "common sense" of the time. Explanations of these phenomena, riveting and ultimately rational, encourage further reflection on what shapes our beliefs today. What made reasonable, educated men and women behave in ways that seem utterly nonsensical to us today? This question and many more are answered in this fascinating book.

Author : Hans Christian Andersen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 90 pages
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Download or read book The Marsh-king's daughter written by Hans Christian Andersen and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William Canton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Child's Book of Saints written by William Canton and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: