Imagining the Pagan in Late Medieval England

by Sarah Salih

Late medieval English culture was fascinated by the figure of the pagan, the ancestor whose religious difference must be negotiated, and by the pagan's idol, an animate artefact. In romances, histories and hagiographies medieval Christians told the story of the pagans, focussing on the absence or presence of pagan material culture in the medieval world to ask whether the pagan era had completely ended or whether it might persist into the Christian...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1843845407
• ISBN13: 9781843845409
• Release Date: August 2019
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Length: 221 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.3"