Christian Fantasy: From 1200 to the PresentThis is the first account of invented stories involving the Christian supernatural. In their development a central concern is found to be the fantasy-making human imagination itself, at first seen as a obstacle to Christian purpose, but more recently given freer rein. |
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2 The French Queste del Saint Graal In the first millennium of Christian history , particularly from the fifth to the eleventh centuries , the Church was generally hostile to any form of the supernatural which was not miraculosus - that ...
2 The French Queste del Saint Graal In the first millennium of Christian history , particularly from the fifth to the eleventh centuries , the Church was generally hostile to any form of the supernatural which was not miraculosus - that ...
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The confidence of the Christian faith had perhaps never been so great , nor its influence so pervasively felt in every aspect of life : no more was it the Church embattled , as in the first thousand years of its history , nor the Church ...
The confidence of the Christian faith had perhaps never been so great , nor its influence so pervasively felt in every aspect of life : no more was it the Church embattled , as in the first thousand years of its history , nor the Church ...
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He hears church bells ringing , and thinks it is Sunday ; but they are audible to him alone . He feels he would like to go to church , for he has never seen the inside of one before . But first he feels he must be clean , and the ...
He hears church bells ringing , and thinks it is Sunday ; but they are audible to him alone . He feels he would like to go to church , for he has never seen the inside of one before . But first he feels he must be clean , and the ...
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Contents
Introduction | 1 |
The French Queste del Saint Graal 122 | 12 |
The Commedia | 21 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | Christian Fantasy: From 1200 to the Present |
| Author | Colin Nicholas Manlove |
| Publisher | Macmillan, 1992 |
| ISBN | 0333558901, 9780333558904 |
| Length | 356 pages |
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