The unorthodox imagination in late medieval Britain
By: edited by Sophie Page
Series: UCL/Neale series on British history; UCL/Neale series on British history
Publisher: Manchester University Press; Distributed in the U.S. exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Manchester; New York; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9780719078354
Subjects: Medieval Arts; Magic in literature; Intellectual life; Christianity; Imagination; Civilization; Magic in art; History
Description: 'The Unorthodox Imagination in Late Medieval Britain' explores how medieval people responded to images, stories, beliefs and practices which were at odds with the normative world view, from the heretical and subversive to the marvellous and exotic.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 'Unorthodox' images? The 2006 Neale Lecture  -- Jean-Claude Schmitt; title: Comment on Jean-Claude Schmitt's Neale Lecture  -- Robert Bartlett; title: Fascination and anxiety in medieval wonder stories  -- Carl Watkins; title: The materiality of unbelief in late medieval England  -- John H. Arnold; title: Magic and unorthodoxy in late medieval English pastoral manuals  -- Catherine Rider; title: Private reliquaries and other prophylactic jewels: new compositions and devotional practices in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries  -- Edina Bozoky; title: The middleness of ritual magic  -- Frank Klaasen; title: Enchantment in medieval literature  -- Lea T. Olsan; title: Constructing exotic animals and environments in late medieval Britain -- Aleks Pluskowski.