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Elf queens and holy friars :

(Number (ISBN

0812293169

(Number (ISBN

9780812293166

Erroneous ISBN

0812224256

Erroneous ISBN

0812248430

Erroneous ISBN

9780812224252

Erroneous ISBN

9780812248432

Title Proper

Elf queens and holy friars :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

fairy beliefs and the medieval church /

First Statement of Responsibility

Richard Firth Green

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

University of Pennsylvania Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

[2016]

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

©2016

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

1 online resource (285 pages)

Series Title

The Middle Ages series

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-276) and index

Text of Note

Believing in fairies -- Policing vernacular belief -- Incubi fairies -- Christ the changeling -- Living in fairyland

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Text of Note

"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."--Jacket

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JSTOR

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22573/ctv2rj6z3

Title

Elf queens and holy friars

International Standard Book Number

9780812248432

Christianity and culture-- History-- Middle Ages, 600-1500.

Christianity and other religions-- Europe-- Folk religion.

Fairies-- Europe-- History-- To 1500.

Folk religion-- Relations-- Europe-- Christianity.

Folklore-- Europe.

Literature, Medieval-- History and criticism.

Fairies.

LITERARY CRITICISM-- Medieval.

RELIGION-- Christian Church-- History.

Religion.

SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Folklore & Mythology.

LIT-- 011000

REL-- 108020

SOC-- 011000

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Book number

Green, Richard Firth,1943-

Date of Transaction

20200822132941.0

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[Book]

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