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Elf Queens and Holy Friars
Author | : Richard Firth Green |
Publsiher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2016-09-28 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780812248432 |
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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.
Elf Queens and Holy Friars
Author | : Richard Firth Green |
Publsiher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 2016-09-26 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780812293166 |
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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. 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.
Poets and Princepleasers
Author | : Richard Firth Green |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : UOM:39015008278155 |
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A Crisis of Truth
Author | : Richard Firth Green |
Publsiher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 520 |
Release | : 2002-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0812218094 |
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"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
Fairies Demons and Nature Spirits
Author | : Michael Ostling |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 366 |
Release | : 2017-11-23 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781137585202 |
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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.
Elves in Anglo Saxon England
Author | : Alaric Hall |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : IND:30000116077896 |
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Elves and elf-belief during the Anglo-Saxon period are reassessed in this lively and provocative study. Anglo-Saxon elves [Old English ælfe] are one of the best attested non-Christian beliefs in early medieval Europe, but current interpretations of the evidence derive directly from outdated nineteenth- and early twentieth-century scholarship. Integrating linguistic and textual approaches into an anthropologically-inspired framework, this book reassesses the full range of evidence. It traces continuities and changes in medieval non-Christian beliefs with a new degree of reliability, from pre-conversion times to the eleventh century and beyond, and uses comparative material from medieval Ireland and Scandinavia to argue for a dynamic relationship between beliefs and society. Inparticular, it interprets the cultural significance of elves as a cause of illness in medical texts, and provides new insights into the much-discussed Scandinavian magic of seidr. Elf-beliefs, moreover, were connected withAnglo-Saxon constructions of sex and gender; their changing nature provides a rare insight into a fascinating area of early medieval European culture. Shortlisted for the Katharine Briggs Folklore Award 2007 ALARIC HALL is a fellow of the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies.
Lay Activism and the High Church Movement of the Late Eighteenth Century
Author | : Robert M. Andrews |
Publsiher | : Brill Academic Publishers |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 2015-05-07 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9004293779 |
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In Lay Activism and the High Church Movement of the Late Eighteenth Century, Robert M. Andrews presents a biography of the late eighteenth-century High Church layman, William Stevens (1732-1807), elucidating his influence within the High Church movement of his day.
The Nursery Rhymes of England
Author | : James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 1842 |
Genre | : Counting-out rhymes |
ISBN | : KBNL:KBNL03000053501 |
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