Imagining the pagan in late Medieval England /

"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 ab...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Salih, Sarah, 1967- (Author)
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : D.S. Brewer [2019]
Online Access:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctvfrxs0j
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Origins : building cities, making idols
  • Encounters : the city converted, the fallen idols
  • The present : traces, recurrences, survivals
  • Coda : the future