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Elf queens and holy friars : fairy beliefs and the medieval Church
- Title
- Elf queens and holy friars : fairy beliefs and the medieval Church / Richard Firth Green.
- Author
- Green, Richard Firth, 1943-
- Publication
- Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press 2016.
- ©2016
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Details
- Description
- 12 unnumbered preliminary pages, 285 pages, 1 unnumbered subsequent leaf; 24 cm
- Summary
- "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"--Book jacket.
- Series Statement
- Middle Ages series
- Uniform Title
- Middle Ages series.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-276) and index.
- Contents
- Believing in fairies -- Policing vernacular beliefs -- Incubi fairies -- Christ the changeling -- Living in fairyland.
- Call Number
- JFE 16-12461
- ISBN
- 9780812248432
- 0812248430
- OCLC
- 945949985
- Author
- Green, Richard Firth, 1943- author.
- Title
- Elf queens and holy friars : fairy beliefs and the medieval Church / Richard Firth Green.
- Publisher
- Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press 2016.
- Copyright Date
- ©2016
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Middle Ages seriesMiddle Ages series.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-276) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 16-12461