The Unorthodox Imagination in Late Medieval Britain

Herausgeber: Page, Sophie

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The unorthodox imagination in late medieval Britain explores how medieval people responded to images, stories, beliefs and practices which were at odds with the normative world view, from the heretical and subversive to the marvellous and exotic -- .

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Produktdetails

• Neale UCL Studies in British History
• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 558g
• ISBN-13: 9780719078354
• ISBN-10: 0719078350
• Artikelnr.: 32465313

Autorenporträt

Sophie Page is Lecturer in Late Medieval History at University College London

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures List of contributors Acknowledgements Introduction 1.
Unorthodox' Images? THE 2006 NEALE LECTURE Jean-Claude Schmitt 2. Comment
on Jean-Claude Schmitt's Neale Lecture Robert Bartlett 3. Fascination and
anxiety in medieval wonder stories Carl Watkins 4 . The materiality of
unbelief in late medieval England John Arnold 5. Magic and unorthodoxy in
late medieval English pastoral manuals Catherine Rider 6. Private
reliquaries and other prophylactic jewels: new compositions and devotional
practices (XIVth-XVth centuries) Edina Bozoky 7. The middleness of ritual
magic Frank Klaassen 8. Enchantment in medieval literature Lea Olsan 9.
Constructing exotic animals and environments in late medieval Britain Aleks
Pluskowski Index