Conceptualizing the Enemy in Early Northwest Europe
Author | : Karin E. Olsen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9782503560939 |
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Author | : Karin E. Olsen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9782503560939 |
Author | : Galina Krasskova |
Publisher | : Weiser Books |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2019-12-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1633411486 |
An accessible yet in-depth guide to this increasingly popular pre-Christian religious tradition of Northern Europe Heathenry, is one of the fastest growing polytheistic religious movements in the United States today. This book explores the cosmology, values, ethics, and rituals practiced by modern heathens. In A Modern Guide to Heathenry readers will have the opportunity to explore the sacred stories of the various heathen gods like Odin, Frigga, Freya, and Thor and will be granted a look into the devotional practices of modern votaries. Blóts, the most common devotional rites, are examined in rich detail with examples given for personal use. Additionally, readers are introduced to the concept of wyrd, or fate, so integral to the heathen worldview. Unlike many books on heathenry, this one is not denomination-specific, nor does it seek to overwhelm the reader with unfamiliar Anglo-Saxon or Norse terminology. For Pagans who wish to learn more about the Norse deities or those who are new to heathenry or who are simply interested in learning about this unique religion, A Modern Guide to Heathenry is the perfect introduction. Those who wish to deepen their own devotional practice will find this book helpful in their own work as well.
Author | : Megan Cavell |
Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | : 261 |
Release | : 2020-03-13 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1526133733 |
Capitalising on developments in the field over the past decade, Riddles at work provides an up-to-date microcosm of research on the early medieval riddle tradition. The book presents a wide range of traditional and experimental methodologies. The contributors treat the riddles both as individual poems and as parts of a tradition, but, most importantly, they address Latin and Old English riddles side-by-side, bringing together texts that originally developed in conversation with each other but have often been separated by scholarship. Together, the chapters reveal that there is no single, right way to read these texts but rather a multitude of productive paths. This book will appeal to students and scholars of early medieval studies. It contains new as well as established voices, including Jonathan Wilcox, Mercedes Salvador-Bello and Jennifer Neville.
Author | : Karin E. Olsen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : English poetry |
ISBN | : 9782503552279 |
Despite the prominence of conflicts in all mythological and heroic literature, perceptions of these conflicts and their participants are shaped by different cultural influences. Socio-economic, political, and religious factors all influence how conflict is perceived and depicted in literary form. This volume provides the first comparative analysis to explore conceptions of conflict and otherness in the literary and cultural contexts of the early North Sea world by investigating the use of metaphor in Old English, Old Norse, and Early Irish poetry. Applying Conceptual Metaphor Theory together with literary and anthropological analysis, the study examines metaphors of conflict and alterity in a range of (pseudo-)mythological, heroic, and occasional poetry, including Beowulf, Old Norse skaldic and eddic verse, and poems from the celebrated 'Ulster Cycle'. This unique approach not only sheds new light on a wide spectrum of metaphorical techniques, but also draws important conclusions concerning the common cultural heritage behind these three poetic corpora.
Author | : David Hackett Fischer |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 972 |
Release | : 1991-03-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780199743698 |
This fascinating book is the first volume in a projected cultural history of the United States, from the earliest English settlements to our own time. It is a history of American folkways as they have changed through time, and it argues a thesis about the importance for the United States of having been British in its cultural origins. While most people in the United States today have no British ancestors, they have assimilated regional cultures which were created by British colonists, even while preserving ethnic identities at the same time. In this sense, nearly all Americans are "Albion's Seed," no matter what their ethnicity may be. The concluding section of this remarkable book explores the ways that regional cultures have continued to dominate national politics from 1789 to 1988, and still help to shape attitudes toward education, government, gender, and violence, on which differences between American regions are greater than between European nations.
Author | : European Association of Social Anthropologists. Conference |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780415132169 |
First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author | : Cas Mudde |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 385 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Conservatism |
ISBN | : 9780511341434 |
The first comprehensive and truly pan-European study of populist radical right parties in Europe.
Author | : Barry R. Schneider |
Publisher | : U.S. Government Printing Office |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
Profiles the personalities and strategic cultures of some of the United States' most dangerous international rivals.
Author | : Dr. Robert F. Baumann |
Publisher | : Pickle Partners Publishing |
Total Pages | : 215 |
Release | : 2015-11-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1782899650 |
[Includes 12 maps and 4 tables] In recent years, the U.S. Army has paid increasing attention to the conduct of unconventional warfare. However, the base of historical experience available for study has been largely American and overwhelmingly Western. In Russian-Soviet Unconventional Wars in the Caucasus, Central Asia, and Afghanistan, Dr. Robert F. Baumann makes a significant contribution to the expansion of that base with a well-researched analysis of four important episodes from the Russian-Soviet experience with unconventional wars. Primarily employing Russian sources, including important archival documents only recently declassified and made available to Western scholars, Dr. Baumann provides an insightful look at the Russian conquest of the Caucasian mountaineers (1801-59), the subjugation of Central Asia (1839-81), the reconquest of Central Asia by the Red Army (1918-33), and the Soviet war in Afghanistan (1979-89). The history of these wars—especially as it relates to the battle tactics, force structure, and strategy employed in them—offers important new perspectives on elements of continuity and change in combat over two centuries. This is the first study to provide an in-depth examination of the evolution of the Russian and Soviet unconventional experience on the predominantly Muslim southern periphery of the former empire. There, the Russians encountered fierce resistance by peoples whose cultures and views of war differed sharply from their own. Consequently, this Leavenworth Paper addresses not only issues germane to combat but to a wide spectrum of civic and propaganda operations as well.
Author | : Olivia Robinson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2020-09-11 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9782503546636 |
Taking as its subject three Middle English texts, The Romaunt of the Rose (anon.), The Belle Dame Sans Mercy (Richard Roos), and An ABC to the Virgin (Geoffrey Chaucer), this book examines these texts in terms of their status as translations from French into English. It develops a critical framework through which to situate the texts in relation to their French sources: Le Roman de la Rose (Guillaume de Lorris/Jean de Meun), La Belle Dame sans mercy (Alain Chartier), and Le Pelerinage de la Vie humaine (Guillaume de Deguilleville), focusing on a consideration of the act of translation as broad, cultural, and bibliographical transfer, as well as precise, linguistic exercise.All three French texts sparked contest or debate, and this book investigates the contributions made to these debates by their English translations, in terms of language used and presentation in MS and print. All three middle English translations are 'Chaucerian' - that is to say, linked to Chaucer in different ways - and this book reconsiders the centrality of 'the Chaucerian' as the defining lens through which we approach them.In so doing, it develops new ways of reading these late-medieval Franco-English verse translations, and redefines critical notions of 'the Chaucerian text'.