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Unorthodox Imagination in Late Medieval Britain

English · Hardback

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Informationen zum Autor Sophie Page is Lecturer in Late Medieval History at University College London Klappentext 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 Zusammenfassung 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 -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis List of figuresList of contributorsAcknowledgementsIntroduction1. 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 storiesCarl Watkins4 . The materiality of unbelief in late medieval EnglandJohn Arnold5. Magic and unorthodoxy in late medieval English pastoral manualsCatherine Rider6. Private reliquaries and other prophylactic jewels: new compositions and devotional practices (XIVth-XVth centuries)Edina Bozoky7. The middleness of ritual magicFrank Klaassen8. Enchantment in medieval literatureLea Olsan9. Constructing exotic animals and environments in late medieval BritainAleks PluskowskiIndex

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Authors Sophie Page, Sophie (Ed) Page, Page Sophie
Assisted by Sophie Page (Editor)
Publisher Manchester University Press
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 01.01.2011
 
EAN 9780719078354
ISBN 978-0-7190-7835-4
No. of pages 232
Series Neale UCL Studies in British History
Neale UCL Studies in British History
Subject Humanities, art, music > History > Middle Ages

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