Elf Queens and Holy Friars

Elf Queens and Holy Friars
Author: Richard Firth Green
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2016-09-28
Genre: History
ISBN: 0812248430

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Starting from the assumption of a far greater cultural gulf between the learned and the lay in the medieval world than between rich and poor, Elf Queens explores the church's systematic campaign to demonize fairies and infernalize fairyland and the responses this provoked in vernacular romance.


Elf Queens and Holy Friars
Language: en
Pages: 304
Authors: Richard Firth Green
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-09-28 - Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

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Starting from the assumption of a far greater cultural gulf between the learned and the lay in the medieval world than between rich and poor, Elf Queens explore
Elf Queens and Holy Friars
Language: en
Pages: 300
Authors: Richard Firth Green
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-09-26 - Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

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In Elf Queens and Holy Friars Richard Firth Green investigates an important aspect of medieval culture that has been largely ignored by modern literary scholars
Poets and Princepleasers
Language: en
Pages: 272
Authors: Richard Firth Green
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 1980 - Publisher:

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The Selected Canterbury Tales: A New Verse Translation
Language: en
Pages: 439
Authors: Geoffrey Chaucer
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-03-27 - Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

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Fisher's work is a vivid, lively, and readable translation of the most famous work of England's premier medieval poet. Preserving Chaucer's rhyme and meter and
A Crisis of Truth
Language: en
Pages: 520
Authors: Richard Firth Green
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002-05 - Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

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"Green's work is of the greatest importance for the understanding of a crucial period in the history of English writing and institutions, and a crucial shift in