God and the Goddesses: Vision, Poetry, and Belief in the Middle Ages
ISBN: 9780812202915
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Pennsylvania Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Poetry Medieval -- History and criticism; Goddesses in literature; God in literature;

Explores the idea that the medieval religious imagination did not restrict itself to masculine images of God but envisaged the divine in multiple forms.


Barbara Newman is Professor of English and Religion at Northwestern University and author of From Virile Woman to WomanChrist, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.
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