This book surveys the appearances of righteous heathens or virtuous pagans in travel literature, chronicles, romances, and sermons, as well as in the work of Langland, Chaucer and Gower. Grady also illustrates the way these figures have been used to explore a variety of historical, cultural and formal literary issues.

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FRANK GRADY is Associate Professor of English, University of Missouri, St. Louis, USA.

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Book Title: Representing Righteous Heathens in Late Medieval England
Authors: Frank Grady
Series Title: The New Middle Ages
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-12367-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Social & Cultural Studies Collection, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2005
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-6699-5Published: 05 March 2009
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-12367-1Published: 30 April 2016
Series ISSN: 2945-5936
Series E-ISSN: 2945-5944
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 214
Topics: Medieval Literature, History of Religion, History of Science, Classical and Antique Literature

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Front Matter

Introduction The Rule of Exceptional Salvations

The Trouble With Trajan

Mandeville’s “Gret Meruaylle”

The Middle English Alexander

The Rhetoric of the Righteous Heathen

Conclusion Virtuous Pagans and Virtual Jews

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