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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We may in this connection speak of him as having invented Purgatory , for instance : no one before had pictured it as a huge and many - tiered mountain in the midst of a vast ocean in the southern hemisphere ; 3 and in its creation ...
We may in this connection speak of him as having invented Purgatory , for instance : no one before had pictured it as a huge and many - tiered mountain in the midst of a vast ocean in the southern hemisphere ; 3 and in its creation ...
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It is a gulf between him and his creation , and one that gives him pain , both because it is hard for his creatures and because he is cut off from it . He tells Grunter of the eighth day of creation , when he gave death to the people he ...
It is a gulf between him and his creation , and one that gives him pain , both because it is hard for his creatures and because he is cut off from it . He tells Grunter of the eighth day of creation , when he gave death to the people he ...
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18 , remarks that the subject till Dante ' had been given only the simplest and crudest of pious representations in the Christian west ' . Cosmo , Handbook , p . 145 , goes so far as to claim , The Comedy is assuredly a creation of such ...
18 , remarks that the subject till Dante ' had been given only the simplest and crudest of pious representations in the Christian west ' . Cosmo , Handbook , p . 145 , goes so far as to claim , The Comedy is assuredly a creation of such ...
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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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