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
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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
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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)
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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

Название: History of Britain & Ireland
ISBN: 1409346269 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781409346265
Издательство: Британия Холдинг
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Описание: Traces the key events that have shaped the British Isles. From the Elizabethan age of Shakespeare to the Iraq and Afghan wars of the 21st century, this book offers a definitive visual chronicle of the most colourful and defining episodes in British history.

Автор: Larrington Carolyne
Название: Land of the Green Man
ISBN: 1784538485 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781784538484
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Описание: Beyond its housing estates and identikit high streets there is another Britain. This is the Britain of mist-drenched forests and unpredictable sea-frets: of wraith-like fog banks, druidic mistletoe and peculiar creatures that lurk, half-unseen, in the undergrowth, tantalising and teasing just at the periphery of human vision. How have the remarkably persistent folkloric traditions of the British Isles formed and been formed by the identities and psyches of those who inhabit them? In her sparkling new history, Carolyne Larrington explores the diverse ways in which a myriad of imaginary and fantastical beings has moulded the cultural history of the nation. Fairies, elves and goblins here tread purposefully, sometimes malignly, over an eerie, preternatural landscape that also conceals brownies, selkies, trows, knockers, boggarts, land-wights, Jack o'Lanterns, Barguests, the sinister Nuckleavee, or water-horse, and even Black Shuck: terrifying hell-hound of the Norfolk coast with eyes of burning coal. Focusing on liminal points where the boundaries between this world and that of the supernatural grow thin those marginal tide-banks, saltmarshes, floodplains, moors and rock-pools wherein mystery lies the author shows how mythologies of Mermen, Green men and Wild-men have helped and continue to help human beings deal with such ubiquitous concerns as love and lust, loss and death and continuity and change. Evoking the Wild Hunt, the ghostly bells of Lyonesse and the dread fenlands haunted by Grendel, and ranging the while from Shetland to Jersey and from Ireland to East Anglia, this is a book that will captivate all those who long for the wild places: the mountains and chasms where Gog, Magog and their fellow giants lie in wait."

Автор: Kane
Название: The Politics and Culture of Honour in Britain and Ireland, 1541–1641
ISBN: 1107630533 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107630536
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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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
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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
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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.

Автор: Melrose Robin
Название: Religion in Britain from the Megaliths to Arthur: An Archaeological and Mythological Exploration
ISBN: 1476663602 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781476663609
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
Цена: 33270.00 T
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Описание: The Druids and the Arthurian legends are all most of us know about early Britain, from the Neolithic to the Iron Age (4500 BC-AD 43). Drawing on archaeological discoveries and medieval Welsh texts like the Mabinogion, this book explores the religious beliefs of the ancient Britons before the coming of Christianity, beginning with the megaliths-structures like Stonehenge-and the role they played in prehistoric astronomy. Topics include the mysterious Beaker people of the Early Bronze Age, Iron Age evidence of the Druids, the Roman period and the Dark Ages. The author discusses the myths of King Arthur and what they tell us about paganism, as well as what early churches and monasteries reveal about the enigmatic Druids.

Автор: Kichner, Heather J.
Название: Cemetery plots from victoria to verdun
ISBN: 1433115239 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781433115233
Издательство: Peter Lang
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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
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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
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