Dear all, A literary postmodernist type intervenes to point to D. Aers, "A Whisper in the Ear of Early Modernists" in the collection, Culture and History, as just one of many arguments as to the problems of using DW Robertson's interpretative methods with non-Biblical medieval literature. Aers also attacks new historicists, so there's somthing in there to keep everyone happy. Sorry if this seems too digressive; but it is about the relation of "medieval religion" to "medieval culture" and whether they are in fact the same thing. Sarah Salih %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%