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Author: Jonathan M. Wooding
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Published: 2000
Total Pages: 328
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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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Published: 1983-01-01
Total Pages: 262
ISBN-13: 9780773406452
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Christa Maria Löffler
Publisher: Humanities Press
Published: 1983
Total Pages: 638
ISBN-13: 9780391031470
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Jude S. Mackley
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 367
ISBN-13: 9004166629
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"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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Published: 2009
Total Pages: 244
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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: Philip Marsden
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Published: 2020-05-07
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9781783783007
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A journey by sea along the western coasts of Ireland and Scotland in search of islands, both real and imagined.
Author: John Murungi
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2023-01-31
Total Pages: 173
ISBN-13: 1527592820
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The world of aesthetics is, itself, inextricable from the world as a whole. Indeed, as this book argues, it is among its essential features, and an invaluable key to its appreciation. Thus, to venture into the uncharted world of aesthetics is also to venture into this larger world, a world that might be called the “cosmos” or the “universe”. At the same time, to venture into this uncharted realm is to also blaze a trail to the self. This trail would, itself, be paradoxical, as it would end where it begins and begin where it ends. In this light, it may also be said that the uncharted world of aesthetics is the uncharted world of the self. This book provides insights into how works about aesthetics are also works reflective of the self, as well as works with endless possibilities of being.
Author: Elizabeth DePalma Digeser
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2018-10-18
Total Pages: 303
ISBN-13: 0755605578
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Late Antiquity, the period of transition from the crisis of Roman Empire in the third century to the Middle Ages, has traditionally been considered only in terms of the 'decline' from classical standards. Recent classical scholarship strives to consider this period on its own terms. Taking the reign of Constantine the Great as its starting point, this book examines the unique intersection of rhetoric, religion and politics in Late Antiquity. Expert scholars come together to examine ancient rhetorical texts to explore the ways in which late antique authors drew upon classical traditions, presenting Roman and post-Roman religious and political institutions in order to establish a desired image of a 'new era'. This book provides new insights into how the post-Roman Germanic West, Byzantine East and Muslim South appropriated and transformed the political, intellectual and cultural legacy inherited from the late Roman Empire and its borderlands.
