Sacred and Supernatural Vessels in Medieval Irish and Welsh Literature
Author : Dimitra Fimi
Publisher :
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 27,38 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Food
ISBN :
Author : Dimitra Fimi
Publisher :
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 27,38 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Food
ISBN :
Author :
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 25,54 MB
Release : 2024-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9004696504
The thirteen essays and the final poem contained in this volume reflect the fundamental importance of water across the whole breadth of medieval endeavour and understanding, as both source of life, and object of scholarly fascination, whose manifestations were the source of rich symbolism and imaginings. Ranging geographically from Ireland to the Arab world and from Iceland to Byzantium and chronologically from the fourth century CE to the sixteenth, the essays explore perceptions and theories of water through a wide range of approaches. Contributors are Michael Bintley, Tom Birkett, Laura Borghetti, Rafał Borysławski, Marilina Cesario, Marusca Francini, Kelly Grovier, Deborah Hayden, Simon Karstens, Andreas Lammer, David Livingstone, Luca Loschiavo, Hugh Magennis, Colin Fitzpatrick Murtha, François Quiviger, Elisa Ramazzina, and Karl Whittington.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 13,19 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Mythology
ISBN :
Major thematic areas of the encyclopedia include: Magic: the secret lore, Alchemy, Witches and witchcraft, Devils, demons and angels, Foretelling the future, Birds, plants and animals in myth and folklore, Nature, fertility and creation myths, Rites of passage, Symbols and Meanings, The heroʼs quest, Legendary lands and beasts, Western religions, Eastern religions, Ancient myths and legends, Folklore, primitive beliefs and customs, psychology and the paranormal, The soul, Ghosts, vampires and hauntings, Mystics, Unorthodox Christians, Occultists and theosophists.
Author : Lucy Razzall
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 36,64 MB
Release : 2021-08-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1108924492
In early modern England, boxes furnished minds as readily as they furnished rooms, shaping ideas about the challenges of interpretation, and negotiations of the book itself as text and material object. Engaging with recent work on material culture and the history of the book, Lucy Razzall weaves together close readings of texts and objects, from wills, plays, sermons and religious polemic, to chests, book-bindings, reliquaries and coffins. She demonstrates how the material and imaginative possibilities of the box were dynamically connected in post-Reformation England, structuring modes of thought. These early modern responses to materiality offer ways in which the discipline of book history might reframe its analysis of the material text. In tracing the early modern significance of the box as matter and metaphor, this book reveals the origins of some of the enduring habits of thought with which we still respond to people, texts and things.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 17,33 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Archaeology
ISBN :
Author : Dimitra Fimi
Publisher : Palgrave MacMillan
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 24,12 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Fimi explores the evolution of Tolkien's mythology throughout his lifetime by examining how it changed as a result of his life story and contemporary cultural and intellectual history. This new approach and scope brings to light neglected aspects of Tolkien's imaginative vision and contextualizes his fiction.
Author : Sharon Paice MacLeod
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 24,91 MB
Release : 2018-05-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1476669074
The early medieval manuscripts of Ireland and Britain contain tantalizing clues about the cosmology, religion and mythology of native Celtic cultures, despite censorship and revision by Christian redactors. Focusing on the latest research and translations, the author provides fresh insight into the beliefs and practices of the Iron Age inhabitants of Ireland, Britain and Gaul. Chapters cover creation and cosmogony, the deities of the Gaels, feminine power in narrative sources, druidic belief, priestesses and magical rites.
Author : John Barry Marino
Publisher : DS Brewer
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 50,23 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781843840220
The Grail legends have in modern times been appropriated by a number of different scholarly schools of thought; their approaches are analysed here.
Author : John Matthews
Publisher : Watkins Publishing
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 16,32 MB
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 9781842930359
In this stimulating collection of essays, some of the finest contemporary writers show how themes from Eastern and Western traditions meet in the different versions of the Quest, and are rich in insights for us all.
Author : Sharon Paice MacLeod
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 13,11 MB
Release : 2011-11-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0786487038
This book provides a comprehensive overview of Celtic mythology and religion, encompassing numerous aspects of ritual and belief. Topics include the presence of the Celtic Otherworld and its inhabitants, cosmology and sacred cycles, wisdom texts, mythological symbolism, folklore and legends, and an appreciation of the natural world. Evidence is drawn from the archaeology of sacred sites, ethnographic accounts of the ancient Celts and their beliefs, medieval manuscripts, poetic and visionary literature, and early modern accounts of folk healers and seers. New translations of poems, prayers, inscriptions and songs from the early period (Gaulish, Old Irish and Middle Welsh) as well as the folklore tradition (Modern Irish, Scottish Gaelic, Welsh, Cornish, Breton and Manx) complement the text. Information of this kind has never before been collected as a compendium of the indigenous wisdom of the Celtic-speaking peoples, whose traditions have endured in various forms for almost three thousand years.