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Imagining the Pagan Past

- Gods and Goddesses in Literature and History since the Dark Ages

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Imagining the Pagan Past explores the pagan stories of Britain¿s past. From the Middle Ages to the present, Marion Gibson explores the ways in which British pagan gods and goddesses have been represented in poetry, novels, plays, chronicles, scientific and scholarly writing. From Geoffrey of Monmouth to Edmund Spenser, William Shakespeare to John Dryden and H.G. Wells to Naomi Mitchison it explores Romano-British, Celtic and Anglo-Saxon deities and fictions. The result is a comprehensive picture of the ways in which writers have peopled the British pagan pantheons throughout history. Imagining the Pagan Past will be essential reading for all those interested in the history of paganism.

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  • Sprog:
  • Engelsk
  • ISBN:
  • 9780415674188
  • Indbinding:
  • Hardback
  • Sideantal:
  • 272
  • Udgivet:
  • 23. januar 2013
  • Størrelse:
  • 156x234x20 mm.
  • Vægt:
  • 660 g.
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Imagining the Pagan Past explores the pagan stories of Britain¿s past. From the Middle Ages to the present, Marion Gibson explores the ways in which British pagan gods and goddesses have been represented in poetry, novels, plays, chronicles, scientific and scholarly writing. From Geoffrey of Monmouth to Edmund Spenser, William Shakespeare to John Dryden and H.G. Wells to Naomi Mitchison it explores Romano-British, Celtic and Anglo-Saxon deities and fictions. The result is a comprehensive picture of the ways in which writers have peopled the British pagan pantheons throughout history. Imagining the Pagan Past will be essential reading for all those interested in the history of paganism.

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