Sacred And Secular In Medieval And Early Modern Cultures: New Essays (The New Middle Ages)
L. Besserman
- Palgrave Macmillan 2006
- 238p. 15.34 x 1.88 x 21.79 cm
This book illuminates the pervasive interplay of 'sacred' and 'secular' phenomena in the literature, history, politics, and religion of the Middle Ages and Early Modern periods. The essays gathered here constitute a new way of applying a classic dichotomy to major cultural phenomena of the pre-modern era.