God and the Goddesses : Vision, Poetry, and Belief in the Middle Ages

"God and the Goddesses is a study medieval imaginative theology, examining the numerous daughters of God who appear in allegorical poems, theological fictions, and the visions of holy women. We have tended to understand these deities as mere personifications and poetic figures, but that, Barbar...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Barbara Newman
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia : Univ Of Pennsylvania Pr, 2005.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Poetry, Medieval.
Goddesses in literature.
God in literature.
RELIGION > Christianity > Literature & the Arts.
Dieu dans la litterature.
Deesses dans la litterature.
Poetry, Medieval > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:"God and the Goddesses is a study medieval imaginative theology, examining the numerous daughters of God who appear in allegorical poems, theological fictions, and the visions of holy women. We have tended to understand these deities as mere personifications and poetic figures, but that, Barbara Newman contends, is a mistake. These goddesses are neither pagan survival nor versions of the Great Goddess constructed in archetypal psychology, but distinctive creations of the Christian imagination."--Jacket.
Physical Description:1 online resource (464 pages).
ISBN:9780812202915

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