By Marion Gibson
Imagining the Pagan Past explores tales of Britain’s pagan historical past. those stories were characterized by means of gods and fairies, folklore and magic. they've got had an uncomfortable dating with the scholarly international; frequently being obvious as traditionally doubtful, self-indulgent romance and, worse, encouraging tribal and nationalistic emotions or difficult church and kingdom.
This booklet exhibits how vital those tales are to the heritage of British tradition, taking the reader on a full of life journey from prehistory to the current. From the center a long time to the twenty-first century, Marion Gibson explores the ways that British pagan gods and goddesses were represented in poetry, novels, performs, chronicles, medical and scholarly writing. From Geoffrey of Monmouth to Edmund Spenser, William Shakespeare to Seamus Heaney and H.G. Wells to Naomi Mitchison it explores Romano-British, Celtic and Anglo-Saxon deities and fictions. the result's a finished photo of the ways that writers have peopled the British pagan pantheons all through historical past.
Imagining the Pagan Past should be crucial studying for all these attracted to the heritage of paganism.
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