Green Richard Firth Elf Queens and Holy Friars: Fairy Beliefs and the Medieval Church 9780812248432

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Автор: Green Richard Firth
Название: Elf Queens and Holy Friars: Fairy Beliefs and the Medieval Church
ISBN: 9780812248432
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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ISBN-10: 0812248430
Обложка/Формат: Hardback
Страницы: 304
Вес: 0.54 кг.
Дата издания: 31.08.2016
Серия: The middle ages series
Язык: English
Размер: 164 x 237 x 28
Ключевые слова: Medieval history, LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval,RELIGION / Christian Church / History
Подзаголовок: Fairy beliefs and the medieval church
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Поставляется из: Англии
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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 churchs 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 churchs 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.

Дополнительное описание:

Introduction
Chapter 1. Believing in Fairies
Chapter 2. Policing Vernacular Belief
Chapter 3. Incubi Fairies
Chapter 4. Christ the Changeling
Chapter 5. Living in Fairyland
Postscript
Notes
Bibliography
Inde

Elf Queens and Holy Friars: Fairy Beliefs and the Medieval Church, Green Richard Firth