Richard Firth Green
Autor/a de Elf Queens and Holy Friars: Fairy Beliefs and the Medieval Church
Obres de Richard Firth Green
Poets and Princepleasers: Literature and the English Court in the Late Middle Ages (1980) 8 exemplars
Interstices: Studies in Late Middle English and Anglo-Latin Texts in Honour of A.G. Rigg (2004) 3 exemplars
Obres associades
A Concise Companion to Chaucer (Concise Companions to Literature and Culture) (2006) — Col·laborador — 7 exemplars
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- Green, Richard Firth
- Data de naixement
- 1943
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- male
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Most were also extremely attractive and were reputed to make full use of that attraction in having sex with humans. Green endeavors to apply a modern "theoretical" gloss to his subject by appealing to Gramsci and others in making the case that the tales of human interactions with these beings often represented a resistance by the "little tradition" of the common people against the "great tradition" of the learned elite, which generally classes these beings as demons and condemned interaction with them --ultimately contributing to the witch hunts of the early modern era. On the whole, I find this theoretical framework not entirely convincing. There is no doubt that there were learned writers who condemned fairies as demons, but there were also plenty of writers for the secular elite, and even some churchmen, who were prepared to regard them as more harmless. This seems to have been true from Walter Map through Chaucer down to Shakespeare, in short all through the period, as Green's own examples demonstrate. For me, the delight in this book is not in its debatable argument but simply in enjoying the vast range of tales about the fairies collected here, mostly fictional but including a certain number of allegedly true accounts.… (més)