Explore the energy of myth as it exploded from medieval European countries into the contemporary world

In this fourth volume in The Masks of God series—Joseph Campbell’s major function of comparative mythology—the preeminent mythologist looks at the birth of the present day, individualistic mythology as it developed in Europe from the twelfth century A.D. up through the modernist art from the twentieth century.

The Masks of God is a four-volume study of world religion and myth that stands as you of Joseph Campbell’s masterworks. On completing it, he composed: “Its main result for me continues to be the confirmation of the thought I have lengthy and faithfully amused: from the unity of the competition of man, not only in its biology, but also in its spiritual history, which has everywhere unfolded in the manner of an individual symphony, with its styles announced, established, amplified and flipped about, distorted, reasserted, now, inside a grand fortissimo of most sections sounding together, irresistibly advancing for some kind of mighty climax, out of which the next great motion will emerge.”