TY  - GEN
T1  - Imagining the pagan in late Medieval England
A1  - Salih, Sarah, 1967-
LA  - English
PP  - Cambridge
PB  - D.S. Brewer
YR  - 2019
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_on1108619576
AB  - "Late medieval English culture was fascinated by the figure of the pagan, the ancestor whose religious difference must be negotiated, and by the pagan's idol, an animate artefact. In romances, histories and hagiographies medieval Christians told the story of the pagans, focussing on the absence or presence of pagan material culture in the medieval world to ask whether the pagan era had completely ended or whether it might persist into the Christian present. This book reads the imagined history of the long term relationship between pagan and Christian through quasi-factual fifteenth-century Middle English writings. John Lydgate's Troy Book describes the foundation of a Troy that is at once London's ancestor and a vision for its future; he, John Capgrave and Reginald Pecock consider how pagans were able to build idols that attracted spirits to inhabit them. The hagiographies of Osbern Bokenham, Alexander Barclay, Capgrave and Lydgate describe the confrontation of saint and idol, and the saint's appropriation for Christians of the city the pagans built. Traces of the pagan appeared in the medieval present: Capgrave, Lydgate and John Metham contemplated both extant and lost artefacts; Lollards and orthodox writers disputed whether Christian devotional practice had pagan aspects; and Mandeville's Travels sympathetically imagined how pagans might explain themselves."--
OP  - 207
CN  - PR275.P34
SN  - 9781787445819
SN  - 178744581X
SN  - 9781843845409
SN  - 1843845407
KW  - English literature : Middle English, 1100-1500 : History and criticism.
KW  - Paganism in literature.
KW  - Littérature anglaise : 1100-1500 (Moyen anglais) : Histoire et critique.
KW  - Paganisme dans la littérature.
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM : Medieval.
KW  - English literature : Middle English
KW  - Paganism in literature
KW  - 1100-1500
KW  - Christian identity.
KW  - cultural history.
KW  - fifteenth-century writings.
KW  - late medieval England.
KW  - pagan-Christian relationship.
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc.
KW  - Literary criticism
KW  - Literary criticism.
KW  - Critiques littéraires.
ER  -