Daemonomania

Author : John Crowley
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 487 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2008-05-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781468303971

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Dæmonomania by John Crowley Pdf

As the winter solstice approaches, so does the final battle of an age-old war in this third novel of the landmark literary fantasy series. The would-be historian and author Pierce Moffett has moved from New York to the Faraway Hills, where he seems to discover—or rediscover—a path into magic, past and present. Meanwhile, single mother Rosie Rasmussen grapples with her mysterious uncle's legacy and her young daughter Samantha’s inexplicable seizures. And for Pierce's lover Rose Ryder, another path unfolds: she’s drawn into a cult that promises to exorcise her demons. It is the dark of the year, between Halloween and the winter solstice, and the gateway is open between the worlds of the living and the dead. A great cycle of time is ending, and Pierce and Rosie, Samantha and Rose Ryder must take sides in an epic conflict that is approaching its ultimate confrontation . . . Or is it? Dæmonomania is a journey into the very mystery of existence: what is, what went before, and what could break through at any moment in our lives. It follows The Solitudes and Love & Sleep, both of which were included in Harold Bloom’s Western Canon.

Author : William Cullen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1816
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0020570991

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A Synopsis of Nosology by William Cullen ... Translated from the Latin, with references to the best authors who have written since his time, by John Thompson ... [An abridged translation of Cullen's "Genera morborum" contained in the "Synopsis nosologiae methodicae."] To which is added, Willan's Classification of Cutaneous Diseases by William Cullen Pdf

Author : John Clute
Publisher : Gateway
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781473219786

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Canary Fever by John Clute Pdf

Canary Fever is a collection of reviews about the most significant literatures of the twenty-first century: science fiction, fantasy and horror: the literatures Clute argues should be recognized as the central modes of fantastika in our times. The title refers to the canary in the coal mine, who whiffs gas and dies to save miners; reviewers of fantastika can find themselves in a similar position, though words can only hurt us.

Author : John Gideon MILLINGEN
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1839
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0019508556

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Curiosities of Medical Experience ... Second edition. Revised and considerably augmented by John Gideon MILLINGEN Pdf

Author : Owen Davies
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2023-08-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198873020

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Troubled by Faith by Owen Davies Pdf

The nineteenth century was a time of extraordinary scientific innovation, but with the rise of psychiatry, faiths and popular beliefs were often seen as signs of a diseased mind. By exploring the beliefs of asylum patients, we see the nineteenth century in a new light, with science, faith, and the supernatural deeply entangled in a fast-changing world. The birth of psychiatry in the early nineteenth-century fundamentally changed how madness was categorised and understood. A century on, their conceptions of mental illness continue to influence our views today. Beliefs and behaviour were divided up into the pathological and the healthy. The influence of religion and the supernatural became significant measures of insanity in individuals, countries, and cultures. Psychiatrists not only thought they could transform society in the industrial age but also explain the many strange beliefs expressed in the distant past. Troubled by Faith explores these ideas about the supernatural across society through the prism of medical history. It is a story of how people continued to make sense of the world in supernatural terms, and how belief came to be a medical issue. This cannot be done without exploring the lives of those who found themselves in asylums because of their belief in ghosts, witches, angels, devils, and fairies, or because they though themselves in divine communication, or were haunted by modern technology. The beliefs expressed by asylum patients were not just an expression of their individual mental health, but also provide a unique reflection of society at the time - a world still steeped in the ideas and imagery of folklore and faith in a fast-changing world.

Author : John Gideon Millingen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1837
Category : Medicine
ISBN : CHI:77478796

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Curiosities of Medical Experience by John Gideon Millingen Pdf

Author : Christine Göttler,Wolfgang Neuber
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004163966

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Spirits Unseen by Christine Göttler,Wolfgang Neuber Pdf

Investigating the meanings and uses of "spiritus" in a variety of early modern disciplines and fields - natural philosophy, theology, music, literature and the visual arts - this book revisits the ambivalent history of a central ancient concept in a period of crisis and change.

Author : Wolfgang Behringer
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0813918537

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Shaman of Oberstdorf by Wolfgang Behringer Pdf

"Shaman of Oberstdorf tells the fascinating story of a sixteenth-century mountain village caught in a panic of its own making. Four hundred years ago the Bavarian alpine town of Oberstdorf, surrounded by the towering peaks of the Vorarlberg, was awash in legends and rumors of prophets and healers, of spirits and specters, of witches and soothsayers. The book focuses on the life of a horse wrangler named Chonrad Stoeckhlin [1549-1587], whose extraordinary visions of the afterlife and enthusiastic practice of the occult eventually led to his death-and to the death of a number of village women-for crimes of witchcraft. Wolfgang Behringer is one of the premier historians of German witchcraft, not only because of his mastery of the subject at the regional level, but because he also writes movingly, forcefully, and with an eye for the telling anecdote."--Amazon.ca.

Author : Abraham Rees
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 780 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1819
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015068387698

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The Cyclopædia, Or, Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Literature by Abraham Rees Pdf

Author : Abraham Rees
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 780 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1819
Category : Electronic
ISBN : DMM:057000909232

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The Cyclopaedia; Or, an Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Literature by Abraham Rees Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 784 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1819
Category : Electronic
ISBN : IBNF:CF990983866

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The Cyclopædia; Or, Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Literature. By Abraham Rees, ... with the Assistance of Eminent Professional Gentlemen. Illustrated with Numerous Engravings, by the Most Disinguished Artists. In Thirthy-nine Volumes. Vol. 1 [- 39] by Anonim Pdf

Author : John Crowley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 653 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 844507377X

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Daemonomania by John Crowley Pdf

Author : William Cullen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1800
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:N11678963

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Nosology by William Cullen Pdf

Author : Anna Kérchy
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2013-02-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781443846424

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Exploring the Cultural History of Continental European Freak Shows and ‘Enfreakment’ by Anna Kérchy Pdf

This collection offers cultural historical analyses of enfreakment and freak shows, examining the social construction and spectacular display of wondrous, monstrous, or curious Otherness in the formerly relatively neglected region of Continental Europe. Forgotten stories are uncovered about freak-show celebrities, medical specimen, and philosophical fantasies presenting the anatomically unusual in a wide range of sites, including curiosity cabinets, anatomical museums, and traveling circus acts. The essays explore the locally specific dimensions of the exhibition of extraordinary bodies within their particular historical, cultural and political context. Thus the impact of the Nazi eugenics programs, state Socialism, or the Chernobyl catastrophe is observed closely and yet the transnational dimensions of enfreakment are made obvious through topics ranging from Jesuit missionaries’ diabolization of American Indians, to translations of Continental European teratology in British medical journals, and the Hollywood silver screen’s colonization of European fantasies about deformity. Although Continental European freaks are introduced as products of ideologically-infiltrated representations, they also emerge as embodied subjects endowed with their own voice, view, and subversive agency.

Author : John Flood
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 2800 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2011-09-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110912746

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Poets Laureate in the Holy Roman Empire by John Flood Pdf

Petrarch’s revival of the ancient practice of laureation in 1341 led to the laurel being conferred on poets throughout Europe in the later Middle Ages and the Early Modern period. Within the Holy Roman Empire, Maximilian I conferred the title of Imperial Poet Laureate especially frequently, and later it was bestowed with unbridled liberality by Counts Palatine and university rectors too. This handbook identifies more than 1300 poets laureated within the Empire and adjacent territories between 1355 and 1804, giving (wherever possible) a sketch of their lives, a list of their published works, and a note of relevant scholarly literature. The introduction and various indexes provide a detailed account of a now largely forgotten but once significant literary-sociological phenomenon and illuminate literary networks in the Early Modern period. A supplementary Volume 5 of Poets Laureate in the Holy Roman Empire. A Bio-bibliographical Handbook will be published in June 2019.