Representing Righteous Heathens in Late Medieval England

by Frank Grady

The virtuous pagans who appear in medieval English texts have often been analyzed for their theological significance, but Representing Righteous Heathens argues that such figures also functioned as an innovative resource for framing and thinking about questions of history, difference, and the uses of antiquity, as well as a flexible formal device for structuring a diverse array of vernacular literary fictions. In travel writing, dream visions, hagiographic...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1403966990
• ISBN13: 9781403966995
• Release Date: March 2009
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 214 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 8.6"