Medieval Crossover: Reading the Secular against the Sacred

by Barbara Newman

Book Overview

The sacred and the secular in medieval literature have too often been perceived as opposites, or else relegated to separate but unequal spheres. In Medieval Crossover: Reading the Secular against the Sacred, Barbara Newman offers a new approach to the many ways that sacred and secular interact in medieval literature, arguing that (in contrast to our own cultural situation) the sacred was the normative, unmarked default category against which...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 026803611X
• ISBN13: 9780268036119
• Release Date: May 2013
• Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"