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Richard Firth Green

Elf Queens and Holy Friars

Fairy Beliefs and the Medieval Church

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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. Th… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-8122-9316-6
  • EAN: 9780812293166
  • Produktnummer: 21413606
  • Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
  • Seitenangabe: 304 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 4'074 KB

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