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People used to take the Bible and other religious texts very seriously, and they believed in their literal truth -- far more than they believed in the truth of
by A_D_E_P_T 2y ago
People used to take the Bible and other religious texts very seriously, and they believed in their literal truth -- far more than they believed in the truth of the Iliad or Charlemagne's Paladins. What's more, the Bible mostly presents something like a historical account with supernatural effects. So I'm not sure what we can draw from this.
> What is the first noteworthy piece of fiction set in a fictional land? "Alice in Wonderland", perhaps?
Maybe Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene? Its connection to our real world is tenuous at best, I'd say.
- surgical_fire 2y ago> People used to take the Bible and other religious texts very seriously, and they believed in their literal truth I don't disagree. But in a world where even reality was very much a mystery (so you had myths of ancient lost civilizations, cities of gold, etc and so forth), maybe religion, as literal as it was taken, was enough to satisfy the common people with its otherworldly descriptions of places. My point is that I think it is natural that as the world becomes less mysterious and religion becomes increasingly seen as allegorical, the craving for fictional worlds where not all is known becomes more appealing. > Maybe Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene? Its connection to our real world is tenuous at best, I'd say. Maybe the oldes I can think of is the land of Avalon in Athurian legend? Still would have a tenuous connection to the real world.