Dreaming of Cockaigne

Medieval Fantasies of the Perfect Life

• Author(s): Herman Pleij,
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Pages: 544
• ISBN_10: 0231117035
  ISBN_13: 9780231117036
  
• Language: en
• Categories: History / Medieval , Literary Criticism / Medieval ,

Description:...

Cockaigne: portrayed in legend, oral history, and art, this imaginary land became the most pervasive collective dream of medieval times -- an earthly paradise to counter the suffering and frustration of daily existence and to quell anxieties over an ever-more-exclusive heavenly afterlife.