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Pages: 270
Authors: Steven F. Kruger
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1992-06-18 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Stephen Kruger considers previously neglected material and arrives at a new understanding of this literary genre, and of medieval attitudes to dreaming in gener
Dreaming of Cockaigne
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Authors: Herman Pleij
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003-07-02 - Publisher: Columbia University Press

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Imagine a dreamland where roasted pigs wander about with knives in their backs to make carving easy, where grilled geese fly directly into one's mouth, where co
Imagination and Fantasy in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Time
Language: en
Pages: 820
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Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-08-24 - Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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The notions of other peoples, cultures, and natural conditions have always been determined by the epistemology of imagination and fantasy, providing much freedo
The Politics of Dreaming in the Carolingian Empire
Language: en
Pages: 378
Authors: Paul Edward Dutton
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1994-01-01 - Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

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Between the reigns of Charlemagne and Charles the Fat, Europe underwent a series of alarming and unsettling changes. Civil war broke out, royal authority was di
Ghosts in the Middle Ages
Language: en
Pages: 332
Authors: Jean-Claude Schmitt
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Type: BOOK - Published: 1998-04-28 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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In this fascinating study, Schmitt examines the significance of the widespread belief in ghosts during the Middle Ages and traces the imaginative, political, an