{"id":15011,"date":"2022-06-01T12:41:36","date_gmt":"2022-06-01T10:41:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/?p=208907"},"modified":"2022-06-01T13:20:25","modified_gmt":"2022-06-01T11:20:25","slug":"fairy-queens-giantesses-pagan-goddesses-in-christian-europe","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/rss_feed\/fairy-queens-giantesses-pagan-goddesses-in-christian-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"Fairy queens &amp; giantesses: pagan goddesses in Christian Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rssexcerpt\"><\/p><p class=\"rssauthor\">By Rhiannon Davies\n                \t\t<\/p><p class=\"rssbyline\">Published: Wednesday, 01 June 2022 at 12:00 am<\/p><hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/><?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"yes\"?>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>Although medieval Europe was firmly Christian, pagan deities still loomed large in the popular imagination. Rhiannon Davies spoke to Ronald Hutton about four of these divine figures: the powerful and protective Mother Earth; the glamorous fairy queen; a night-roaming supernatural lady; and a Gaelic giantess.<\/p>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"&quot;wp-audio-shortcode&quot;\" id=\"&quot;audio-208907-1&quot;\" preload=\"&quot;none&quot;\" style=\"&quot;width:\" controls=\"&quot;controls&quot;\"><source type=\"&quot;audio\/mpeg&quot;\" src=\"&quot;https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2022\/05\/Pagandeities-84c9608.mp3?_=1&quot;\"\/><a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2022\/05\/Pagandeities-84c9608.mp3&quot;\">https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2022\/05\/Pagandeities-84c9608.mp3<\/a><\/audio><p><strong>Ronald Hutton is the author of <em>Queens of the Wild: Pagan Goddesses in Christian Europe: An Investigation <\/em>(Yale University Press, 2022)<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul><li><a href=\"\/\/uk.bookshop.org\/books\/queens-of-the-wild-pagan-goddesses-in-christian-europe-an-investigation\/9780300261011&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;nofollow noopener noreferrer\" noopener=\"\" noreferrer=\"\"><strong>Buy now on Bookshop.org<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Queens-Wild-Goddesses-Christian-Investigation\/dp\/0300261012?tag=bbchistory045-21&amp;ascsubtag=historyextra-0&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;sponsored&quot; noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Buy now on Amazon<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/\/www.waterstones.com\/book\/queens-of-the-wild\/ronald-hutton\/9780300261011&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;nofollow noopener noreferrer\" noopener=\"\" noreferrer=\"\"><strong>Buy now on Waterstones<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/body><\/html>\n<hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Rhiannon Davies Published: Wednesday, 01 June 2022 at 12:00 am Although medieval Europe was firmly Christian, pagan deities still loomed large in the popular imagination. 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