The unorthodox imagination in late medieval Britain / edited by Sophie Page.

Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:UCL/Neale series on British history.
Other Authors: Page, Sophie, 1972-
Language:English
Published: Manchester ; New York : New York : Manchester University Press ; Distributed in the United States exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
Series:UCL/Neale series on British history.
Subjects:
Imagination > History > To 1500.
Imagination > Religious aspects > Christianity.
Magic in literature.
Magic in art.
Arts, Medieval > Great Britain.
Great Britain > Civilization > 1066-1485.
Great Britain > Intellectual life > 1066-1485.
Great Britain > History > Medieval period, 1066-1485.
Physical Description:x, 220 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • 'Unorthodox' images? The 2006 Neale Lecture / Jean-Claude Schmitt
  • Comment on Jean-Claude Schmitt's Neale Lecture / Robert Bartlett
  • Fascination and anxiety in medieval wonder stories / Carl Watkins
  • The materiality of unbelief in late medieval England / John H. Arnold
  • Magic and unorthodoxy in late medieval English pastoral manuals / Catherine Rider
  • Private reliquaries and other prophylactic jewels: new compositions and devotional practices in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries / Edina Bozoky
  • The middleness of ritual magic / Frank Klaasen
  • Enchantment in medieval literature / Lea T. Olsan
  • Constructing exotic animals and environments in late medieval Britain / Aleks Pluskowski.