Sacred and Secular in Medieval and Early Modern Cultures: New Essays

By Lawrence L. Besserman

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1403967326
• ISBN13: 9781403967329
• Release Date: February 2006
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 238 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.6"