Author : Katherine Marie Olley
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 26,47 MB
Release : 2022-07-19
Category : Kinship
ISBN : 1843846373
This wide-ranging study offers a new understanding of Old Norse kinship in which the individual self was expanded to encompass its kin.
Author : Mike Dixon-Kennedy
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 21,30 MB
Release : 1998-12-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1576074870
This volume offers the first comprehensive guide in English to the myth and legend of the Russian Empire and other Slavic countries and peoples. There are few stories more stirring than those of ancient Russia. Russian and other Slavic beliefs weave a rich tapestry in which real-world elements coexist with those from fantasy, such as dragons, monsters, and shape-changing wolves. Though Russia adopted Christianity as the state religion in A.D. 988, paganism remained popular through the end of the 19th century and survives in isolated pockets even today. In Russian myth and legend, Christian themes are interwoven with pagan ideas: dragons fight priests, saints encounter nymphs, and witches enter the kingdom of heaven. Encyclopedia of Russian and Slavic Myth and Legend includes extensive historical, geographical, and biographical background to deepen the reader's understanding of the myth and legend. Numerous illustrations are included in this fascinating volume, which will be of great interest to students, scholars, and everyone who wishes to explore the cultural heritage of ancient Russia.
Author : Therese Martin
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 1185 pages
File Size : 36,93 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9004185550
The twenty-four studies in this volume propose a new approach to framing the debate around the history of medieval art and architecture to highlight the multiple roles played by women, moving beyond today's standard division of artist from patron.
Author : M. Kostera
Publisher : Springer
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 28,82 MB
Release : 2008-06-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 023058358X
The first volume in a series of three focuses on myth in everyday organizational life, pertaining to individual actors: heroes and heroines, and the roles they play in organizations. Attitudes and temperaments, as well as professional ethos, are narrated and mythologized to reveal an archetypal dimension of organizing and organizations.
Author : Stephen Chamberlain
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 18,32 MB
Release : 2023-02-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1803134437
Graëlstorm A unique kind of woman A cosmic feud A secret that threatens her existence Lena Dubois is something that should not exist...
Author : Carolyne Larrington
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 675 pages
File Size : 10,57 MB
Release : 2016-08-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1316720853
This is the first comprehensive and accessible survey in English of Old Norse eddic poetry: a remarkable body of literature rooted in the Viking Age, which is a critical source for the study of early Scandinavian myths, poetics, culture and society. Dramatically recreating the voices of the legendary past, eddic poems distil moments of high emotion as human heroes and supernatural beings alike grapple with betrayal, loyalty, mortality and love. These poems relate the most famous deeds of gods such as Óðinn and Þórr with their adversaries the giants; they bring to life the often fraught interactions between kings, queens and heroes as well as their encounters with valkyries, elves, dragons and dwarfs. Written by leading international scholars, the chapters in this volume showcase the poetic riches of the eddic corpus, and reveal its relevance to the history of poetics, gender studies, pre-Christian religions, art history and archaeology.
Author : Jan Cerney
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 37,52 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1467119393
The mere mention of Calamity Jane conjures up images of buckskins, bull whips and dance halls, but there's more to the woman than the storied legend she became. Born Martha Canary, she was orphaned as a child and assumed the responsibility of caring for her siblings. Much too young and ambitious to rear a family, she found homes for all. After setting off on her own, Martha tried to reconnect with her fractured family in her typical haphazard fashion, all the while transforming into Calamity Jane. Soon, her own foibles and her siblings' choices rendered the attempt futile. From brother Elijah's horse thieving to sister Lena's denial of Martha's tales, author Jan Cerney uncovers the tumultuous Canary family often overlooked in the Calamity canon.
Author : Lena Larsson Lovén
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 23,94 MB
Release : 2010-06-09
Category : Art
ISBN : 1443822973
The papers in this volume were among the contributions presented at an international symposium, Ancient Marriage in Myth and Reality, which was held at the Swedish Institute in Rome in October 2006. The symposium was held under the aegis of ARACHNE—the Nordic network for women’s history and gender studies in Antiquity. The study of ancient marriage has been largely the province of historians working with texts, and the result of this was an emphasis on elite marriages discussed by the male writers of the upper classes and on laws pertaining to marriage. Neither area has been exhausted, as several essays in this new international collection indicate, but the balance among the papers reveals the shift in focus. Along with innovative readings of authors from Livy to Porphyry, we find examinations of demographic and contractual evidence as well as inscriptions and visual imagery. Among the contributors to the volume are: Pauline Schmitt Pantel, Judith Evans Grubbs, Ray Laurence, Marjatta Nielsen and Mary Harlow.
Author : Rick Wallach
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 17,57 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780719059483
For almost three decades, Cormac McCarthy solidified his reputation as an American "writer's writer" with remarkable novels such as his Appalachian Tales, The Orchard Keeper, Outer Dark, Child of God, Suttree, and his terrifying Western masterpiece, Blood Meridian. Then, with the publication of All the Pretty Horses, the first work of his celebrated Border Trilogy in 1992, McCarthy's popularity exploded on to a world stage. As his reputation burgeoned with the publications of The Crossing and Cities of the Plain, the critical response to McCarthy has grown apace.
Author : William Green
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 17,48 MB
Release : 2019-11-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1646282442
This is a love story, a shortened version of a life dedicated to mastering the art of failure in relationships—with God, with those I love and have loved, and with myself. It is about the realization that failing in a relationship is not failing at love. My pursuit of love has left in its wake many wounded hearts, while mine has died so often it seems impossible to believe this has occurred over a singular lifetime. In the end, I hope this snapshot of words from my heart has not distorted the truth of my soul. Thank you for bearing witness. Bg
