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Author : Linda Ballard
Publisher : Dufour Editions
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : UOM:39015045674952
Forgetting Frolic provides a lively and readable account of the history of marriage traditions in Ireland. The text and illustrations are of interest to the student of social history and to the general reader.
Author : Maria Luddy,Mary O'Dowd
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2020-06-25
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781108486170
Explores how marriage in Ireland was perceived, negotiated and controlled by church and state as well as by individuals across three centuries.
Author : Lydia Maria Child,Caroline Sturgis Tappan
Publisher : IndyPublish.com
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1856
Category : Children's stories
ISBN : HARVARD:HN28ZS
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1845
Category : American literature
ISBN : UOM:39015082480545
Author : Roy Vickery
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2010-09-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780826444189
Plants have had symbolic as well as practical meanings and uses since the beginning of human civilisation. This vivid account introduces readers to a rich variety of British and Irish plant folklore, drawing on Roy Vickery's own unsurpassed archives collated over forty years, and a wide range of historical and contemporary literature. Unlike other books which re-use material collected in the Victorian era, this book is based on new material collected by the author, and shows that while some of the wilder superstitions have faded we still cling to the symbolic importance of plants. Putting conkers in wardrobes keeps moths away, and parsley - the Devil's plant - only germinates if sown on Good Friday. A potato in the bed helps do away with cramp and in Cornwall crawling under a bramble bush was considered a cure for blackheads. From plants that foretold births and deaths, to herbal remedies, planting and harvesting rituals, friendship bushes and festive garlands this is a book of rich and living social history and folklore.
Author : Emily Lyle
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781443844550
The various Indo-European branches had a shared linguistic and cultural origin in prehistory, and this book sets out to overcome the difficulties about understanding the gods who were inherited by the later literate cultures from this early “silent” period by modelling the kind of society where the gods could have come into existence. It presents the theory that there were ten gods, who are conceived of as reflecting the actual human organization of the originating time. There are clues in the surviving written records which reveal a society that had its basis in the three concepts of the sacred, physical force, and fertility (as argued earlier by the French scholar, Georges Dumézil). These concepts are now seen as corresponding to the old men, young men, and mature men of an age-grade system, and each of the three concepts and life stages is seen to relate to an old and a young god. In addition to these six gods, and to two kings who relate in positive and negative ways to the totality, there is a primal goddess who has a daughter as well as sons. The gods, like the humans of the posited prehistoric society, are seen as forming a four-generation set originating in an ancestress, and the theogony is explored through stories found in the Germanic, Celtic, Indian, and Greek contexts. The sources are often familiar ones, such as the Edda, the Mabinogi, Hesiod’s Theogony, and the Rāmāyaṇa, but selected components are looked at from a fresh angle and, taken together with less familiar and sometimes fragmentary materials, yield fresh perspectives which allow us to place the Indo-European cosmology as one of the world’s indigenous religions. We can also gain a much livelier sense of the original culture of Europe before it was overlaid by influences from the Near East in the period of literacy. The gods themselves continue to exert their fascination, and are shown to reflect a balance between the genders, between the living and the ancestors, and between peaceful and warlike aspects expressed at the human level in alternate succession to the kingship.
Author : George P. Monger
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 1282 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9798216115090
This book presents a comprehensive overview of global courtship and marriage customs, from ancient history to contemporary society, demonstrating the vast differences as well as the similarities across all of human culture. This second edition of Marriage Customs of the World examines historical context, social significance, and current trends and controversies of matrimony in the Western world as well as other cultures. Apart from detailing the ceremonies from specific countries, the book identifies specific elements of the wedding event and discusses them in a comparative manner, showcasing the similarities across cultures. The new content in this work includes additional information on courtship and how future spouses are found in other cultures; marriage in art, cinema, theater, and poetry; wedding bands; forced marriages and shotgun weddings; New Year's weddings; legislation regarding marriage; and engagement practices. Entries carried over from the first edition have been revised and updated as well. With its broad scope and consideration of contemporary issues alongside historical information, this work will be ideal for high school and undergraduate students; scholars of anthropology, social studies, and history; and general readers.
Author : John O'Hanlon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : Folk-Lore, Irish
ISBN : OXFORD:600061848
Author : Robert Whan
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9781843838722
A comprehensive survey and analysis of the Presbyterian community in its important formative period. The Presbyterian community in Ulster was created by waves of immigration, massively reinforced in the 1690s as Scots fled successive poor harvests and famine, and by 1700 Presbyterians formed the largest Protestant community in the north of Ireland. This book is a comprehensive survey and analysis of the Presbyterian community in this important formative period. It shows how the Presbyterians formed a highly organised, self-confident community which exercised a rigorous discipline over its members and had a well-developed intellectual life. It considers the various social groups within the community, demonstrating how the always small aristocratic and gentry component dwindled andwas virtually extinct by the 1730s, the Presbyterians deriving their strength from the middling sorts - clergy, doctors, lawyers, merchants, traders and, in particular, successful farmers and those active in the rapidly growing linen trades - and among the laborious poor. It discusses how Presbyterians were part of the economically dynamic element of Irish society; how they took the lead in the emigration movement to the American colonies; and how they maintained links with Scotland and related to other communities, in Ireland and elsewhere. Later in the eighteenth century, the Presbyterian community went on to form the backbone of the Republican, separatist movement. ROBERT WHAN obtained his Ph.D. in History from Queen's University, Belfast.
Author : Liam Kennedy,Philip Ollerenshaw
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199583119
Surveys the history of the province from the plantations of the early seventeenth century to partition and the formation of Northern Ireland in the early 1920s, and onwards to the 'Troubles' of recent decades. A major contribution to the history of Ireland and to Ulster's contested place in the British and the wider world.
Author : Diane Urquhart
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02-06
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781108493093
Spanning the island of Ireland over three centuries, this first history of Irish divorce places the human experience of marriage breakdown centre stage to explore the impact of a highly restrictive and gendered law, and its reform, on Irish society.
Author : R. A. Houston
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2014-03-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191502415
Some of the poorest regions of historic Britain had some of its most vibrant festivities. Between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries, the peoples of northern England, Lowland Scotland, and Wales used extensive celebrations at events such as marriage, along with reciprocal exchange of gifts, to emote a sense of belonging to their locality. Bride Ales and Penny Weddings looks at regionally distinctive practices of giving and receiving wedding gifts, in order to understand social networks and community attitudes. Examining a wide variety of sources over four centuries, the volume examines contributory weddings, where guests paid for their own entertainment and gave money to the couple, to suggest a new view of the societies of 'middle Britain', and re-interpret social and cultural change across Britain. These regions were not old fashioned, as is commonly assumed, but differently fashioned, possessing social priorities that set them apart both from the south of England and from 'the Celtic fringe'. This volume is about informal communities of people whose aim was maintaining and enhancing social cohesion through sociability and reciprocity. Communities relied on negotiation, compromise, and agreement, to create and re-create consensus around more-or-less shared values, expressed in traditions of hospitality and generosity. Ranging across issues of trust and neighbourliness, recreation and leisure, eating and drinking, order and authority, personal lives and public attitudes, R. A. Houston explores many areas of interest not only to social historians, but also literary scholars of the British Isles.
Author : Andrew R. Holmes
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2006-11-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199288656
A historical study of the most influential and important Protestant group in Northern Ireland - the Presbyterians. Andrew R. Holmes examines the various components of public and private religiosity and how these were influenced by religious concerns, economic and social changes, and cultural developments.
Author : Jacqueline Dillion
Publisher : Springer
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137503206
This book reassesses Hardy’s fiction in the light of his prolonged engagement with the folklore and traditions of rural England. Drawing on wide research, it demonstrates the pivotal role played in the novels by such customs and beliefs as ‘overlooking’, hag-riding, skimmington-riding, sympathetic magic, mumming, bonfire nights, May Day celebrations, Midsummer divination, and the ‘Portland Custom’. This study shows how such traditions were lived out in practice in village life, and how they were represented in written texts – in literature, newspapers, county histories, folklore books, the work of the Folklore Society, archival documents, and letters. It explores tensions between Hardy’s repeated insistence on the authenticity of his accounts and his engagement with contemporary anthropologists and folklorists, and reveals how his efforts to resist their ‘excellently neat’ categories of culture open up wider questions about the nature of belief, progress, and social change.
Author : Jane Merrill,Chris Filstrup
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2011-04-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9798216163947
This enlightening narrative takes a look at the wedding night—its origins, history, customs, cultural expressions, and fictional representations through the ages. Though just outside of public view, the wedding night is loaded with expectation and consequence. The Wedding Night: A Popular History is an entertaining, accessible, touching, and humorous volume that looks at the previously unexplored topic of wedding history "between the sheets." Covering a kaleidoscopic array of cultural expressions, this unique study zooms in on what's quintessential and shares insights into the history of intimacy through the ages. The book traces the formalization of the wedding night in the ancient Near East and classical world, provides many examples of historically significant unions in European and American history, and describes the lively variety of traditions leading up to the present. Spicing their narrative with many piquant quotes from contemporary sources, the authors explore the rich cultural context for the wedding night—processions, royal rituals, apparel, food-related traditions, and pranks—throughout Europe and America in the 19th and 20th centuries. Separate chapters examine sex guides, jokes, and the bed as a special conjugal space.