Elf Queens and Holy Friars: Fairy Beliefs and the Medieval Church.
- Author / Editor
- Green, Richard Firth.
Elf Queens and Holy Friars: Fairy Beliefs and the Medieval Church.
- Published
- Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016.
- Physical Description
- 285 pp.
- Series
- Middle Ages Series.
- Description
- Presents (in a postscript) how Chaucer's attitudes and "amused skepticism" toward fairies influenced later writers, including Spenser and Shakespeare. Analyzes connections between historiography of early modern witch-hunts and popular superstitions of fairy beliefs.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion