Folklore and nation in Britain and Ireland /, Matthew Cheeseman, Carina Hart
Автор: Lawrence Sandra Название: Kew: The Witch`s Garden: Plants in Folklore, Magic and Traditional Medicine ISBN: 1787394360 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781787394360 Издательство: Carlton Books Рейтинг: Цена: 17940.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть Описание: Fully illustrated, The Witch`s Garden tells the story of our folkloric fascination with magical plant specimens, documenting the beliefs and rituals surrounding the natural world.
Автор: Foster Michael Dylan Название: The Book of Yokai: Mysterious Creatures of Japanese Folklore ISBN: 0520271025 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780520271029 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 26400.00 T Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ. Описание: Monsters, ghosts, fantastic beings, and supernatural phenomena of all sorts haunt the folklore and popular culture of Japan. Drawing on years of research in Japan, this book unpacks the history and cultural context of yokai, tracing their roots, interpreting their meanings, and introducing people who have hunted them through the ages.
Название: Baba Yaga: The Wild Witch of the East in Russian Fairy Tales ISBN: 1617035963 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781617035968 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 46200.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Baba Yaga is an ambiguous and fascinating figure. She appears in traditional Russian folktales as a monstrous and hungry cannibal, or as a canny inquisitor of the adolescent hero or heroine of the tale. In new translations and with an introduction by Sibelan Forrester, Baba Yaga: The Wild Witch of the East in Russian Fairy Tales is a selection of tales that draws from the famous collection of Aleksandr Afanas'ev, but also includes some tales from the lesser-known nineteenth-century collection of Ivan Khudiakov. This new collection includes beloved classics such as ""Vasilisa the Beautiful"" and ""The Frog Princess,"" as well as a version of the tale that is the basis for the ballet ""The Firebird."" The preface and introduction place these tales in their traditional context with reference to Baba Yaga's continuing presence in today's culture--the witch appears iconically on tennis shoes, tee shirts, even tattoos. The stories are enriched with many wonderful illustrations of Baba Yaga, some old (traditional ""lubok"" woodcuts), some classical (the marvelous images from Victor Vasnetsov or Ivan Bilibin), and some quite recent or solicited specifically for this collection
Автор: Kichner, Heather J. Название: Cemetery plots from victoria to verdun ISBN: 1433115239 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781433115233 Издательство: Peter Lang Рейтинг: Цена: 83290.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Considers rhetoric of burial reform, cemeterial customs, and epitaphic writing in Great Britain from mid-nineteenth century through Great War. This book studies mid- and late-Victorian responses to death and burial, including epitaph collections, and fictional representations of burial and epitaph writing, especially in novels of Charles Dickens.
Автор: Cashman Ray Название: Packy Jim ISBN: 0299308944 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780299308940 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 18350.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Growing up on a secluded smuggling route along the border of Northern Ireland and the Republic, Packy Jim McGrath regularly heard the news, songs, and stories of men and women who stopped to pass the time until cover of darkness. In his early years, he says, he was all ears—but now it is his turn to talk.Ray Cashman, who has been interviewing McGrath for more than fifteen years, demonstrates how Packy Jim embellishes daily conversation with stories of ghosts and fairies, heroic outlaws and hateful landlords. Such folklore is a boundless resource that he uses to come to grips with the past and present, this world and the next. His stories reveal an intricate worldview that is both idiosyncratic and shared—a testament to individual intelligence and talent, and a window into Irish vernacular culture.
Автор: Wilde Jane Francesca Название: Tales of Sacred Wells in Ireland (Folklore History Series) ISBN: 1445520850 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781445520858 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 39230.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Coire Sois, The Cauldron of Knowledge: A Companion to Early Irish Saga offers thirty-one previously published essays by Tom?s ? Cathasaigh, which together constitute a magisterial survey of early Irish narrative literature in the vernacular.
? Cathasaigh has been called “the father of early Irish literary criticism,” with writings among the most influential in the field. He pioneered the analysis of the classic early Irish tales as literary texts, a breakthrough at a time when they were valued mainly as repositories of grammatical forms, historical data, and mythological debris. All four of the Mythological, Ulster, King, and Finn Cycles are represented here in readings of richness, complexity, and sophistication, supported by absolute philological rigor and yet easy for the non-specialist to follow. The book covers key terms, important characters, recurring themes, rhetorical strategies, and the narrative logic of this literature. It also surveys the work of the many others whose explorations were launched by ? Cathasaigh's first encounters with the literature.
As the most authoritative single volume on the essential texts and themes of early Irish saga, this collection will be an indispensable resource for established scholars, and an ideal introduction for newcomers to one of the richest and most under-studied literatures of medieval Europe.
Автор: John Callow Название: The Last Witches of England: A Tragedy of Sorcery and Superstition ISBN: 1788314395 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781788314398 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 31680.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: "Fascinating and vivid." New Statesman"Thoroughlyresearched." The Spectator "Intriguing." BBC History Magazine"Vividly told." BBC History Revealed"A timely warning against persecution." Morning Star"Astute and thoughtful." History Today"An important work." All About History"Well-researched." The Tablet
On the morning of Thursday 29 June 1682, a magpie came rasping, rapping and tapping at the window of a prosperous Devon merchant. Frightened by its appearance, his servants and members of his family had, within a matter of hours, convinced themselves that the bird was an emissary of the devil sent by witches to destroy the fabric of their lives. As the result of these allegations, three women of Bideford came to be forever defined as witches. A Secretary of State brushed aside their case and condemned them to the gallows; to hang as the last group of women to be executed in England for the crime. Yet, the hatred of their neighbours endured. For Bideford, it was said, was a place of witches.
Though ‘pretty much worn away’ the belief in witchcraft still lingered on for more than a century after their deaths. In turn, ignored, reviled, and extinguished but never more than half-forgotten, it seems that the memory of these three women - and of their deeds and sufferings, both real and imagined – was transformed from canker to regret, and from regret into celebration in our own age. Indeed, their example was cited during the final Parliamentary debates, in 1951, that saw the last of the witchcraft acts repealed, and their names were chanted, as both inspiration and incantation, by the women beyond the wire at Greenham Common.
In this book, John Callow explores this remarkable reversal of fate, and the remarkable tale of the Bideford Witches.
Автор: Foster Michael Dylan Название: The Book of Yokai: Mysterious Creatures of Japanese Folklore ISBN: 0520271017 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780520271012 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 84480.00 T Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ. Описание: Monsters, ghosts, fantastic beings, and supernatural phenomena of all sorts haunt the folklore and popular culture of Japan. Drawing on years of research in Japan, this book unpacks the history and cultural context of yokai, tracing their roots, interpreting their meanings, and introducing people who have hunted them through the ages.
Автор: Kane Название: The Politics and Culture of Honour in Britain and Ireland, 1541–1641 ISBN: 0521898641 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521898645 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 95040.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Exploring `honour politics` in the early modern period, Brendan Kane reveals that honour played a powerful role in determining the character of Anglo-Irish society, politics and cultural contact, and brings a cultural perspective to our understanding of English imperialism in Ireland and of the Irish responses to it.
Название: A History of Ireland ISBN: 1403948291 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781403948298 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 73590.00 T Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ. Описание: A History of Ireland explores the story of Ireland from the 12th century to the present day. This new edition has been revised, updated and expanded to take into account the latest scholarship and major recent political, economic, social, and cultural events.
Автор: Williamson, Daniel C. (university Of Hartford, Usa) Название: Anglo-irish relations in the early troubles ISBN: 1350074675 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781350074675 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 36950.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
In 1969 the once peaceful Catholic civil rights movement in Northern Ireland degenerated into widespread violence between the nationalist and unionist communities. The conflict, known as the Troubles, would last for thirty years.
The early years of the Troubles helped to define the nature of the conflict for years to come. This was the period in which unionism divided into moderate and extreme wings; the Provisional IRA emerged amidst the resurgence of violent republicanism; and British military and governmental responsibility for Northern Ireland culminated in direct rule.
Based on extensive research in British, Irish and American archives, Anglo-Irish Relations in the Early Troubles examines the diplomatic relationship between the key players in the formative years of the Northern Ireland conflict. It analyses how the Irish government attempted to influence British policy regarding Northern Ireland and how Britain sought to affect Dublin's response to the crisis. It was from this strained relationship of opposition and co-operation that the long-term shape of the Troubles emerged.
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