Book Description
With The Otherworld in Irish Literature and History, Jonathan Wooding presents a major collection of essays by some of the best-known academics in Ireland, Britain and America today.
Author : Jonathan M. Wooding
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Page : 326 pages
File Size : 20,78 MB
Release : 2000
Category : History
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With The Otherworld in Irish Literature and History, Jonathan Wooding presents a major collection of essays by some of the best-known academics in Ireland, Britain and America today.
Author : Christa Maria Löffler
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Page : 426 pages
File Size : 27,95 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Literary Criticism
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Author : Christa Maria Loffler
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Page : 377 pages
File Size : 41,2 MB
Release : 1983-01-01
Category : Epic literature, Irish
ISBN : 9780773404182
Author : Christa Maria Löffler
Publisher : Humanities Press
Page : 638 pages
File Size : 18,35 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Geographical myths
ISBN : 9780391031470
Author : Christa Maria Löffler
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Page : pages
File Size : 28,66 MB
Release : 1983
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Author : Christa Maria Löffler
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Page : 272 pages
File Size : 34,58 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Geographical myths
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Author : Jude S. Mackley
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 22,33 MB
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 9004166629
"The Legend of St Brendan" is a study of two accounts of a voyage undertaken by Brendan, a sixth-century Irish saint. The immense popularity of the Latin version encouraged many vernacular translations, including a twelfth-century Anglo-Norman reworking of the narrative which excises much of the devotional material seen in the ninth-century "Navigatio Sancti Brendani abbatis" and changes the emphasis, leaving a recognisably secular narrative. The vernacular version focuses on marvellous imagery and the trials and tribulations of a long sea-voyage. Together the two versions demonstrate a movement away from hagiography towards adventure. Studies of the two versions rarely discuss the elements of the fantastic. Following a summary of authorship, audiences and sources, this comparative study adopts a structural approach to the two versions of the Brendan narrative. It considers what the fantastic imagery achieves and addresses issues raised with respect to theological parallels.
Author : Muireann Ní Bhrolcháin
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Page : 244 pages
File Size : 12,5 MB
Release : 2009
Category : History
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A discussion of the rich written heritage of the Old and Middle Irish period, 600-1200. Chapters deal with such topics as druids, monks, poets, the beginnings of writing manuscripts, saga cycles, and stories about kings, kingship and sovereignty goddesses.
Author : Sharon Paice MacLeod
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 35,43 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.
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Publisher : BRILL
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 13,53 MB
Release : 2013-11-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 900425823X
Ever since the Middle Ages the Otherworld of Faerie has been the object of serious intellectual scrutiny. What science in the end dismissed as airy nothings was given a local habitation and a name by art. This book presents some of the main chapters from the history and tradition of otherworldly spirits and fairies in the folklore and literature of the British Isles and Northern Europe. In eleven contributions different experts deal with some of the main problems posed by the scholarly and artistic confrontation with the Otherworld, which not only fuelled the imagination, but also led to the ultimate redundancy of learned perceptions of that Otherworld as it was finally obfuscated by the clarity of an enlightened age. Contributors include: Henk Dragstra, John Flood, Julian Goodare, Tette Hofstra, Robert Maslen, Richard North, Karin E. Olsen, David J. Parkinson, Rudolf Suntrup, Jan R. Veenstra, and Helen Wilcox.