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Popular Religion in Late Saxon England: Elf Charms in Context
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Popular Religion in Late Saxon England: Elf Charms in Context Hardcover - 1996

by Jolly, Karen Louise


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In tenth- and eleventh-century England, Anglo-Saxon Christians retained an old folk belief in elves as extremely dangerous creatures capable of harming unwary humans. To ward off the afflictions caused by these invisible beings, Christian priests modified traditional elf charms by adding liturgical chants to herbal remedies. In Popular Religion in Late Saxon England, Karen Jolly traces this cultural intermingling of Christian liturgy and indigenous Germanic customs and argues that elf charms and similar practices represent the successful Christianization of native folklore. Jolly describes a dual process of conversion in which Anglo-Saxon culture became Christianized but at the same time left its own distinct imprint on Christianity. Illuminating the creative aspects of this dynamic relationship, she identifies liturgical folk medicine as a middle ground between popular and elite, pagan and Christian, magic and miracle. Her analysis, drawing on the model of popular religion to redefine folklore and magic, reveals the richness and diversity of late Saxon Christianity.

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  • Title Popular Religion in Late Saxon England: Elf Charms in Context
  • Author Jolly, Karen Louise
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Publisher University of North Carolina Press
  • Date 1996-04
  • ISBN 9780807822623
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Chapel Hill & London: The University of North Carolina Press. Fine with no dust jacket. 1996. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0807822620 . Chapel Hill & London: University of North Carolina Press, (1996). First Edition, First Printing. 8vo. x,251pp, Index, Bibliography. Cloth. Fine condition, no dj (issued?). 8 illustrations, 4 maps. Study of how during the 10th - 11th century Christianity "made itself at home in a culture, and vice-versa, how a culture grew into and adapted to a religious conversion" (p. ix). ISBN 0807822620; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 251 pages .
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