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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... creation - to Virgil , the Muslim picture of Hell , the Celestial Hierarchies of Pseudo - Dionysius and the Islamic Mi'raj ; but even those indebtednesses he so transforms and elaborates that it is better to speak of them as re - creations ...
... creation - to Virgil , the Muslim picture of Hell , the Celestial Hierarchies of Pseudo - Dionysius and the Islamic Mi'raj ; but even those indebtednesses he so transforms and elaborates that it is better to speak of them as re - creations ...
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... 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 had made , because they seemed ...
... 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 had made , because they seemed ...
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... creation of such powerful originality that no resemblance to it is to be found in any previous work . ' Gerard ... creation , the other of creation gone wrong but these myths are less narratives than sequential encyclopaedias of being ...
... creation of such powerful originality that no resemblance to it is to be found in any previous work . ' Gerard ... creation , the other of creation gone wrong but these myths are less narratives than sequential encyclopaedias of being ...
Contents
The French Queste del Saint Graal | 12 |
The Commedia | 21 |
The Middle English Pearl | 42 |
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