The Atlantic As Mythical Space An Essay On Medieval Ethea

Author : Alfonso J. García-Osuna
Publisher : Vernon Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2023-05-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781648896279

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The Atlantic as Mythical Space: An Essay on Medieval Ethea by Alfonso J. García-Osuna Pdf

'The Atlantic as Mythical Space' is a study of medieval culture and its concomitant myths, legends and fantastic narratives as it developed along the European Atlantic seaboard. It is an inclusive study that touches upon early medieval Ireland, the pre-Hispanic Canary Islands, the Iberian Peninsula, courtly-love France and the pagan and early-Christian British Isles. The obvious and consequential ligature that runs throughout the different sections of this text is the Atlantic Ocean, a bewildering expanse of mythical substance that for centuries fueled the imagination of ocean-side peoples. It analyzes how and why myths with the Atlantic as preferential stage are especially relevant in pagan and early-Christian western Europe. It further examines how prescientific societies fashioned an alternate cosmos in the Atlantic where events, beings and places existed in harmony with communal mental structures. It explores why in that contrived geography these societies’ angels and monsters were able to materialize with wonderful profusion; it further analyzes how the ocean became a place where human beings ventured forth searching for explanations for what is essentially unknowable: the origins of the universe and the reason for our existence in it.

Author : Alfonso J. Garcia-Osuna
Publisher : Vernon Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2023-01-10
Category : History
ISBN : 164889173X

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The Atlantic as Mythical Space by Alfonso J. Garcia-Osuna Pdf

'The Atlantic as Mythical Space' is a study of medieval culture and its concomitant myths, legends and fantastic narratives as it developed along the European Atlantic seaboard. It is an inclusive study that touches upon early medieval Ireland, the pre-Hispanic Canary Islands, the Iberian Peninsula, courtly-love France and the pagan and early-Christian British Isles. The obvious and consequential ligature that runs throughout the different sections of this text is the Atlantic Ocean, a bewildering expanse of mythical substance that for centuries fueled the imagination of ocean-side peoples. It analyzes how and why myths with the Atlantic as preferential stage are especially relevant in pagan and early-Christian western Europe. It further examines how prescientific societies fashioned an alternate cosmos in the Atlantic where events, beings and places existed in harmony with communal mental structures. It explores why in that contrived geography these societies' angels and monsters were able to materialize with wonderful profusion; it further analyzes how the ocean became a place where human beings ventured forth searching for explanations for what is essentially unknowable: the origins of the universe and the reason for our existence in it.

Author : B. Hudson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2012-06-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137062390

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Studies in the Medieval Atlantic by B. Hudson Pdf

This collection of essays offers fresh analysis of topics in the exciting area of Atlantic World studies. Challenging standard assumptions, the essays advance the argument that the Atlantic Ocean was a region that encompassed ethnic and political boundaries, in which a sub-community shaped by culture and commerce arose.

Author : Cecilia Enjuto-Rangel,Sebastiaan Faber,Pedro García-Caro,Robert Patrick Newcomb
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781789624427

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Transatlantic Studies by Cecilia Enjuto-Rangel,Sebastiaan Faber,Pedro García-Caro,Robert Patrick Newcomb Pdf

This book emerges from, and performs, an ongoing debate about transatlantic approaches in the fields of Iberian, Latin American, African, and Luso-Brazilian studies. In thirty-five short essays, leading scholars reframe the intertwined cultural histories of the transnational spaces encompassed by the former Spanish and Portuguese empires.

Author : Roger D. Woodard
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2007-11-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107495111

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The Cambridge Companion to Greek Mythology by Roger D. Woodard Pdf

Professor Roger Woodard brings together a group of the world's most authoritative scholars of classical myth to present a thorough treatment of all aspects of Greek mythology. Sixteen original articles guide the reader through all aspects of the ancient mythic tradition and its influence around the world and in later years. The articles examine the forms and uses of myth in Greek oral and written literature, from the epic poetry of 8th century BC to the mythographic catalogues of the early centuries AD. They examine the relationship between myth, art, religion and politics among the ancient Greeks and its reception and influence on later society from the Middle Ages to present day literature, feminism and cinema. This Companion volume's comprehensive coverage makes it ideal reading for students of Greek mythology and for anyone interested in the myths of the ancient Greeks and their impact on western tradition.

Author : Yomaira C Figueroa-Vásquez
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780810142442

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Decolonizing Diasporas by Yomaira C Figueroa-Vásquez Pdf

Mapping literature from Spanish-speaking sub-Saharan African and Afro-Latinx Caribbean diasporas, Decolonizing Diasporas argues that the works of diasporic writers and artists from Equatorial Guinea, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, and Cuba offer new worldviews that unsettle and dismantle the logics of colonial modernity. With women of color feminisms and decolonial theory as frameworks, Yomaira C. Figueroa-Vásquez juxtaposes Afro-Latinx and Afro-Hispanic diasporic artists, analyzing work by Nelly Rosario, Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel, Trifonia Melibea Obono, Donato Ndongo, Junot Díaz, Aracelis Girmay, Loida Maritza Pérez, Ernesto Quiñonez, Christina Olivares, Joaquín Mbomio Bacheng, Ibeyi, Daniel José Older, and María Magdalena Campos-Pons. Figueroa-Vásquez’s study reveals the thematic, conceptual, and liberatory tools these artists offer when read in relation to one another. Decolonizing Diasporas examines how themes of intimacy, witnessing, dispossession, reparations, and futurities are remapped in these works by tracing interlocking structures of oppression, including public and intimate forms of domination, sexual and structural violence, sociopolitical and racial exclusion, and the haunting remnants of colonial intervention. Figueroa-Vásquez contends that these diasporic literatures reveal violence but also forms of resistance and the radical potential of Afro-futurities. This study centers the cultural productions of peoples of African descent as Afro-diasporic imaginaries that subvert coloniality and offer new ways to approach questions of home, location, belonging, and justice.

Author : Corban Addison
Publisher : Quercus Publishing
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781780876955

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The Garden of Burning Sand by Corban Addison Pdf

A GRIPPING READ WITH A HUMAN STORY AT ITS HEART 'Corban Addison will hold you spellbound from his first word to his last' WILBUR SMITH 'Chock full of suspense and emotion' PRIDE In Zambia, American lawyer Zoe Fleming and policeman Joseph Kabuta have uncovered a crime that has no rhyme or reason: a young girl, attacked and left for dead. Zoe and Joseph - their pasts, cultures and upbringings radically different - must work together. Their task is not only to help the girl, Kuyeya, recover but, against overwhelming odds and terrifying danger, to ensure justice doesn't fail her again.

Author : Miranda Green
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2003-10-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134893935

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Symbol and Image in Celtic Religious Art by Miranda Green Pdf

Radical new interpretation of Celts and their way of life

Author : Philip Freeman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2006-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780743289061

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The Philosopher and the Druids by Philip Freeman Pdf

Early in the first century B.C. a Greek philosopher named Posidonius began an ambitious and dangerous journey into the little-known lands of the Celts. A man of great intellectual curiosity and considerable daring, Posidonius traveled from his home on the island of Rhodes to Rome, the capital of the expanding empire that had begun to dominate the Mediterranean. From there Posidonius planned to investigate for himself the mysterious Celts, reputed to be cannibals and savages. His journey would be one of the great adventures of the ancient world. Posidonius journeyed deep into the heart of the Celtic lands in Gaul. There he discovered that the Celts were not barbarians but a sophisticated people who studied the stars, composed beautiful poetry, and venerated a priestly caste known as the Druids. Celtic warriors painted their bodies, wore pants, and decapitated their foes. Posidonius was amazed at the Celtic women, who enjoyed greater freedoms than the women of Rome, and was astonished to discover that women could even become Druids. Posidonius returned home and wrote a book about his travels among the Celts, which became one of the most popular books of ancient times. His work influenced Julius Caesar, who would eventually conquer the people of Gaul and bring the Celts into the Roman Empire, ending forever their ancient way of life. Thanks to Posidonius, who could not have known that he was recording a way of life soon to disappear, we have an objective, eyewitness account of the lives and customs of the ancient Celts.

Author : Michel Conan
Publisher : Dumbarton Oaks
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0884023257

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Contemporary Garden Aesthetics, Creations and Interpretations by Michel Conan Pdf

Using a variety of critical perspectives, this text demonstrates a renewal of garden design and directions for garden aesthetics, analysing projects by Fernando Chacel (Brazil), Andy Goldsworthy (Great Britain), Charles Jencks (Great Britain), Patricia Johanson (U.S.) and Bernard Lassus (France).

Author : Lucius Burckhardt
Publisher : Birkhäuser
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2015-05-19
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9783035604139

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Why is Landscape Beautiful? by Lucius Burckhardt Pdf

Lucius Burckhardt (1925-2003) taught architectural theory at Kassel University and, in the 1980s, coined the term "Promenadology"or the science of Strollology and developed this into a complex and far-sighted planning and design discipline. Given that "the landscape" as an idea only exists in our heads, Burckhardt's writings (and drawings) are not so much concerned with beautiful vistas, but focus instead on the multi-faceted interaction a simple walk-taker has with his environment. To those who observe the environment with their eyes wide open, interesting questions will arise again and again; for example, why "city" and "country" can no longer be separated so easily in the face of progressive urbanization. Or why we consider a viaduct to be beautiful, but a nuclear power station an intrusion. And also, why gardens are works of art and should therefore be appraised as such. This book contains 28 texts by the design and planning critic, for the first time in English, with the focus on landscapes, gardens as an art form and the science of strollology.

Author : Jacques Jérôme Pierre Maquet
Publisher : New York : Oxford University Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015008519400

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Africanity by Jacques Jérôme Pierre Maquet Pdf

Author : Miranda Aldhouse Green
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2011-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780752468112

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The Gods of the Celts by Miranda Aldhouse Green Pdf

This is a fascinating book about the Celts and their religion, which covers all aspects of the gods, ritual customers, cult-objects and sacred places of the ancient Celtic peoples. The first chapter introduces the Celts and the evidence they have left behind, and places them in their geographical and chronological context. The following chapters cover the various cults of the sun and the sky, the mother-godesses and fertility, war, death and the underworld, water gods and healers, animals and animism, and symbolism and imagery. This is a rewarding overview of the evidence for Celtic religions, beliefs and practices which uses modern scholarship to bring an obscure, but captivating part of European history to life. It covers 500 BC to AD 400, and embraces the whole of the Celtic world from Ireland to Australia.

Author : Alan Moore
Publisher : DC
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2003-02-01
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781401243685

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Promethea Book Two by Alan Moore Pdf

This collection follows Sophie Bangs, the latest in a long line of Prometheas, on a winding journey of discovery as she continues to learn the secrets of the Immateria...and herself. Her transcendental adventure brings young Sophie to realms of magic and wonder that none have experienced before. Collecting PROMETHEA issues #7-12, this book contains such fan-favorite stories as "Rocks and Hard Places," where Sophie learns about the Promethea named Bill, and "Sex, Stars, and Serpents," where Sophie learns some valuable lessons.

Author : Georgia Irby-Massie
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2018-07-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004351226

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Military Religion in Roman Britain by Georgia Irby-Massie Pdf

This volume deals with the religions of the Roman soldiers in Britain and the religious interactions of soldiers and civilians. Drawing on epigraphic and archaeological evidence, the discussion shows the complexities of Roman, Eastern, and Celtic rites, how each system influenced the ritual and liturgy of the others, and how each system was altered over time. The first part presents discursive chapters on topics such as the cult of the emperor, Mithraism in Britain, the cults of Celtic warriors and healers, the Romanization of Civilian religions, and Christianity; the second part consists of an annotated catalogue of the epigraphical sources. Of significance is the broad range of materials synthesized to show the extent to which native religions influenced and were influenced by imported Roman and Eastern cults.