Islands And Cities In Medieval Myth Literature And History

Author : Andrea Grafetstätter,Sieglinde Hartmann,James Michael Ogier
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Cities and towns in literature
ISBN : 363161165X

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Islands and Cities in Medieval Myth, Literature, and History by Andrea Grafetstätter,Sieglinde Hartmann,James Michael Ogier Pdf

"The studies presented in this book derive from a series of sessions held at the annual International Medieval Congress in Leeds, UK...Four sessions, held from 2004 to 2006, bore the title 'Islands of the World and the Seven Seas in Medieval Myth and History', and three in 2007 the title 'Cities, Myths and Literatures'...The stated objective of the island sessions was the location of a 'starting point for a new investigation into the possible impact that myths and other fictitious stories about insular wonderlands had on the reasons why medieval men and women undertook their various missions, searches and explorations that finally led to the discovery of the New World.' Similarly, the cities sessions 'intended to find new connections between ancient myths and medieval constructions of real or imagined cities in literature'."--editors' pref. p.7

Author : Matthew Boyd Goldie,Sebastian Sobecki
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 115 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2024-01-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9783031464058

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Our Sea of Islands by Matthew Boyd Goldie,Sebastian Sobecki Pdf

This book considers how to conceive of the group of islands known in our time as the British Isles in the Late Middle Ages. Was the archipelago considered one geographical unit? Was it an it, or were the islands a they? Singular or plural? Contributions consider possible paths to thinking about late-medieval archipelagism, and in doing so, highlight the inconsistencies and contradictions in medieval (and modern) conceptions of the region.

Author : Albrecht Classen
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2017-08-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781498539852

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Water in Medieval Literature by Albrecht Classen Pdf

This book uncovers the tremendous importance of water for European medieval literature, focusing on a large number of writers and poets. Water proves to be highly meaningful in religious, literary, and factual narratives insofar as it emerges as a central catalyst to bring about epiphany and epistemological and spiritual illumination.

Author : Albrecht Classen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000205022

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Tracing the Trails in the Medieval World by Albrecht Classen Pdf

Every human being knows that we are walking through life following trails, whether we are aware of them or not. Medieval poets, from the anonymous composer of Beowulf to Marie de France, Hartmann von Aue, Gottfried von Strassburg, and Guillaume de Lorris to Petrarch and Heinrich Kaufringer, predicated their works on the notion of the trail and elaborated on its epistemological function. We can grasp here an essential concept that determines much of medieval and early modern European literature and philosophy, addressing the direction which all protagonists pursue, as powerfully illustrated also by the anonymous poets of Herzog Ernst and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Dante’s Divina Commedia, in fact, proves to be one of the most explicit poetic manifestations of the fundamental idea of the trail, but we find strong parallels also in powerful contemporary works such as Guillaume de Deguileville’s Pèlerinage de la vie humaine and in many mystical tracts.

Author : Theresa Bane
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781476622682

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Encyclopedia of Beasts and Monsters in Myth, Legend and Folklore by Theresa Bane Pdf

“Here there be dragons”—this notation was often made on ancient maps to indicate the edges of the known world and what lay beyond. Heroes who ventured there were only as great as the beasts they encountered. This encyclopedia contains more than 2,200 monsters of myth and folklore, who both made life difficult for humans and fought by their side. Entries describe the appearance, behavior, and cultural origin of mythic creatures well-known and obscure, collected from traditions around the world.

Author : Albrecht Classen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 747 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2015-08-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110377613

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Handbook of Medieval Culture by Albrecht Classen Pdf

A follow-up publication to the Handbook of Medieval Studies, this new reference work turns to a different focus: medieval culture. Medieval research has grown tremendously in depth and breadth over the last decades. Particularly our understanding of medieval culture, of the basic living conditions, and the specific value system prevalent at that time has considerably expanded, to a point where we are in danger of no longer seeing the proverbial forest for the trees. The present, innovative handbook offers compact articles on essential topics, ideals, specific knowledge, and concepts defining the medieval world as comprehensively as possible. The topics covered in this new handbook pertain to issues such as love and marriage, belief in God, hell, and the devil, education, lordship and servitude, Christianity versus Judaism and Islam, health, medicine, the rural world, the rise of the urban class, travel, roads and bridges, entertainment, games, and sport activities, numbers, measuring, the education system, the papacy, saints, the senses, death, and money.

Author : Timothy R. Tangherlini
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2014-11-20
Category : Mythology, Norse
ISBN : 9780692328866

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Nordic Mythologies: Interpretations, Intersections, and Institutions by Timothy R. Tangherlini Pdf

A collection of essays by leading scholars of Nordic Mythology.

Author : Chrysovalantis Kyriacou
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781498551168

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Orthodox Cyprus under the Latins, 1191–1571 by Chrysovalantis Kyriacou Pdf

This study examines Cypriot society from the crusader conquest of the island in 1191 to the Ottoman conquest of 1571. The author analyzes the ethnic, cultural, and religious landscape of Cyprus and argues that Cypriots adopted a nonviolent, covert form of anti-Latin resistance.

Author : George Oppitz-Trotman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2020-07-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192602442

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Stages of Loss by George Oppitz-Trotman Pdf

Stages of Loss supplies an original and deeply researched account of travel and festivity in early modern Europe, complicating, revising, and sometimes entirely rewriting received accounts of the emergence and development of professional theatre. It offers a history of English actors travelling and performing abroad in early modern Europe, and Germany in particular, during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. These players, known as English Comedians, were among the first professional actors to perform in central and northern European courts and cities. The vital contributions made by them to the development of a European theatre institution have long been neglected owing to the pre-eminence of national theatre histories and the difficulty of researching an inherently evanescent phenomenon across large distances. These contributions are here introduced in their proper contexts for the first time. Stages of Loss explores connections real and perceived between diminishments of national value and the material wealth transported by itinerant players; representations of loss, waste, and profligacy within the drama they performed; and the extent to which theatrical practice and the process of canonization have led to archival and interpretive losses in theatre history. Situating the English Comedians in a variety of economic, social, religious, and political contexts, it explores trends and continuities in the reception of their itinerant theatre, showing how their incorporation into modern theatre history has been shaped by derogatory assessments of travelling theatre and itinerant people in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Stages of Loss reveals that the Western theatre institution took shape partly as a means of accommodating, controlling, evaluating, and concealing the work of migrant strangers.

Author : Matthias Egeler
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Folklore
ISBN : 2503569382

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Islands in the West by Matthias Egeler Pdf

This monograph traces the history of one of the most prominent types of geographical myths of the North-West Atlantic Ocean: transmarine otherworlds of blessedness and immortality. Taking the mythologization of the Viking Age discovery of North America in the earliest extant account of 'Vínland' ('Wine-Land') and the Norse transmarine otherworlds of 'Hvítramannaland' ('The Land of White Men') and the 'Ódáinsakr/Glæsisvellir' ('Field of the Not-Dead'/'Shining Fields') as its starting point, the book explores the historical entanglements of these imaginative places in a wider European context. It follows how these Norse otherworld myths adopt, adapt, and transform concepts from early Irish vernacular tradition and Medieval Latin geographical literature, and pursues their connection to the geographical mythology of classical antiquity. In doing so, it shows how myths as far distant in time and space as Homer's Elysian Plain and the transmarine otherworlds of the Norse are connected by a continuous history of creative processes of adaptation and reinterpretation. Furthermore, viewing this material as a whole, the question arises as to whether the Norse mythologization of the North Atlantic might not only have accompanied the Norse westward expansion that led to the discovery of North America, but might even have been among the factors that induced it.

Author : Henry S. Turner
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 637 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780199641352

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Early Modern Theatricality by Henry S. Turner Pdf

Early Modern Theatricality brings together some of the most innovative critics in the field to examine the many conventions that characterized early modern theatricality. It generates fresh possibilities for criticism, combining historical, formal, and philosophical questions, in order to provoke our rediscovery of early modern drama.

Author : Toriyama Sekien
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2017-01-18
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780486800356

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Japandemonium Illustrated by Toriyama Sekien Pdf

Japanese folklore abounds with bizarre creatures collectively referred to as the yokai ― the ancestors of the monsters populating Japanese film, literature, manga, and anime. Artist Toriyama Sekien (1712–88) was the first to compile illustrated encyclopedias detailing the appearances and habits of these creepy-crawlies from myth and folklore. Ever since their debut over two centuries ago, the encyclopedias have inspired generations of Japanese artists. Japandemonium Illustrated represents the very first time they have ever been available in English. This historically groundbreaking compilation includes complete translations of all four of Sekien's yokai masterworks: the 1776 Gazu Hyakki Yagyō (The Illustrated Demon Horde's Night Parade), the 1779 Konjaku Gazu Zoku Hyakki (The Illustrated Demon Horde from Past and Present, Continued), the 1781 Konjaku Hyakki Shū (More of the Demon Horde from Past and Present), and the 1784 Hyakki Tsurezure Bukuro (A Horde of Haunted Housewares). The collection is complemented by a detailed introduction and helpful annotations for modern-day readers.

Author : Gerhard Jaritz
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2011-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9786155053252

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Isolated Islands in Medieval Nature, Culture and Mind by Gerhard Jaritz Pdf

Focuses specifically on the concept and role of islands in the medieval world. The main characteristic of an island is, of course, that of being isolated from the rest of the world; in geography by waters, in more abstract and symbolic meanings by other kinds of separating borders. Islands were the place 'on the other side', of difference, otherness and remoteness. As one of the articles in this volume puts it, islands are often depicted "as sites for extraordinary events and happenings".

Author : William Henry Babcock
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1922
Category : Geographical myths
ISBN : STANFORD:36105010434640

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Legendary Islands of the Atlantic by William Henry Babcock Pdf

Author : H. A. Guerber
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780486278629

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Myths and Legends of the Middle Ages by H. A. Guerber Pdf

Medieval romance and other kinds of myth and legend from the Middle Ages offer a heady mix of Christian and pagan elements, reflecting both the passing of an ancient culture and the arrival of a new order. Not purely legend, not really history, these wonderful stories often involve pagan heroes reshaped to fit tales of knighthood and Christian endeavor. 36 illustrations.