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The Secret in Medieval Literature - Alternative Worlds in the Middle Ages (Hardcover)
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The Secret in Medieval Literature - Alternative Worlds in the Middle Ages (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in Medieval Literature
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The Secret in Medieval Literature: Alternative Worlds in the Middle
Ages explores the many strange phenomena, both in the Middle Ages
and today, that do not find any good rational explanations. Those
do not pertain to magic or to religion in the traditional sense of
the word; they are secrets of an epistemological kind and tend to
defy human rationality, without being marginal or irrelevant. At
first sight, we might believe that we face elements from fairy
tales, but the medieval cases discussed here go far beyond such a
simplistic approach to the mysterious dimension of secrets. In
fact, as this book argues, medieval poets commonly engaged with
alternative forces and described their workings within the human
context (both in the Latin West and in the East), without being
able to come to terms with them critically. Those mysteries appear
both in heroic epics and courtly romances, among other genres, and
they figure more frequently than we might have assumed. On the one
hand, we could conceive of those secrets as the product of literary
liberties and imagination; on the other, those secrets prove to be
rather serious agents intervening in the lives of the fictional
protagonists. By the same token, our modern world is not all
rationality and material conditions either. The study of secrets in
the Middle Ages thus opens the pathway toward a new epistemology
both for the people in the pre-modern age and us today.
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