This book examines the intricate and unusual relationship between the sacred and secular spheres of English medieval culture, positing that the assimilation of sacred and secular motifs could be in ei
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. Following an introduct
Literary scholars and cultural critics re-examine major writers, genres, and themes in terms of their traditional period affiliations from the Middle Ages to the present. They illuminate both the spec
