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Elf Queens and Holy Friars: Fairy Beliefs and the Medieval Church (The Middle Ages Series) by Green, Richard Firth is a literary studies available to read on EtoBox.
What is Elf Queens and Holy Friars: Fairy Beliefs and the Medieval Church (The Middle Ages Series) about?
In Elf Queens and Holy Friars Richard Firth Green investigates an important aspect of medieval culture that has been largely ignored by modern literary scholarship: the omnipresent belief in fairyland. 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
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- Author
- Green, Richard Firth
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
- Published
- 2017
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780812293166
- Category
- literary studies
- Subjects
- History, Religion, Poetry
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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