TY - BOOK AU - Besserman TI - Sacred And Secular In Medieval And Early Modern Cultures: New Essays (The New Middle Ages) SN - 9781403967329 U1 - 940.1 PY - 2006/// PB - Palgrave Macmillan N2 - 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 ER -