Can you recommend recent, well-written fantasy novels where the Christian elements in traditional European folklore are adhered to relatively faithfully?
I’m not looking for proselytizing work, Christian allegories, or anything of that sort.
Rather, I’m thinking more of the kinds of details you see in older Scottish and Irish folktales. Where fairies secretly despaired because they’d been denied salvation at the Last Judgment, witches were actually evil, (only) Christian objects could repel supernatural creatures, saints wandered around winning miracle contests with druids, and sorcerers ultimately came to a bad end. That kind of thing.
The only relatively close recent work I’ve heard of would have been “Between Two Fires,” which I’m told is well researched and consistent with a lot of medieval beliefs. Though that’s also set in an earlier period — and drawing on older stories — than a lot of folklore we’ve inherited from when it started to be heavily collected in the 19th century.
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