God and the Goddesses
Subtitle: Vision, Poetry, and Belief in the Middle Ages (Middle Ages Series)
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: December 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 432
ISBN-13: 9780812236910
Subjects: European history: c 500 to c 1500; History of ideas, intellectual history; History of religion; c 1000 CE to c 1500; Literature - Classics / Criticism; History; History: World; Europe; Medieval; Goddesses in literature; Ancient, Classical & Medieval; God in literature; History and criticism; Poetry, Medieval
First sentence: MEDIEVAL CATHOLICISM PRESENTS THE extraordinary spectacle of a religion, ostensibly monotheistic, that proclaimed one God in three persons and surrounded that God with three pantheons.