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Author | : Gareth Knight |
Publisher | : Skylight Press |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1908011483 |
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The Breton lai is a narrative poem, usually accompanied by music, that appeared in France about the middle of the 12th century, carried by travelling musicians and storytellers called jongleurs. What is important about them is that they contain a great deal of faery and supernatural lore deriving from Celtic myth, legend and folktale. This collection of twelve tales focuses on faery lore in the lai tradition. Nine are taken from anonymous medieval jongleur sources; the other three are from the more courtly tales collected by Marie de France in the late 12th century. Gareth Knight, a scholar of medieval French as well as an established author on esoteric faery lore, provides a vivid and lively translation of each lai along with a commentary which takes a perspective both historic and esoteric.
Author | : André Lebey |
Publisher | : Skylight Press |
Total Pages | : 154 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1908011327 |
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Springing from the heart of medieval France, The Romance of the Faery Melusine tells the story of Raymondin of Poitiers who accidentally kills his uncle while out hunting, and fleeing deep into the forest, encounters a faery by a fountain. Falling deeply into a mutual soul-love, the faery Melusine agrees to help Raymondin and to become his wife, on condition that he makes no attempt to see her between dusk and dawn each Saturday. On this basis the house of Lusignan thrives and prospers, until a series of treacherous events tempt Raymondin to violate his promise and shatter the magic which holds his faery wife to the human world. First rendered into written form in a text by Jean d'Arras in 1393, the legend of the Faery Melusine is well established in France, where she is credited with having founded the family, town and castle of Lusignan. However, it is very little known in the English-speaking world, despite the fact that Melusine originally hailed from Scotland. This new retelling by Gareth Knight translated from Andre Lebey's 1920s novel Le Roman de la Melusine captures the freshness of Lebey's telling of the legend and brings the benefit of Knight's expertise both in French literature and in the esoteric faery tradition.
Author | : Xiao Ding |
Publisher | : Devneybooks |
Total Pages | : 765 |
Release | : |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1304462013 |
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When I was seven years old, although my parents came to the ancient town of Fusheng, here, the folk customs were honest and the people lived and worked in peace and contentment. Every step I took, I looked up and found that everyone passing by me had a smiling face like me.
Author | : Corinne J. Saunders |
Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer |
Total Pages | : 314 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1843842211 |
Download Magic and the Supernatural in Medieval English Romance Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
"This study looks at a wide range of medieval Englisih romance texts, including the works of Chaucer and Malory, from a broad cultural perspective, to show that while they employ magic in order to create exotic, escapist worlds, they are also grounded in a sense of possibility, and reflect a complex web of inherited and current ideas." --Book Jacket.
Author | : Thomas Keightley |
Publisher | : DigiCat |
Total Pages | : 617 |
Release | : 2022-09-15 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Fairy Mythology" (Illustrative of the Romance and Superstition of Various Countries) by Thomas Keightley. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Author | : Thomas Keightley |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 396 |
Release | : 1833 |
Genre | : Fairy tales |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Bettina L. Knapp |
Publisher | : State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | : 404 |
Release | : 2012-02-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0791488098 |
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Bettina L. Knapp explores the universal and eternal nature of fourteen French fairy tales, including the medieval Romance of Mélusine, Charles Perrault's seventeenth-century versions of Sleeping Beauty and Bluebeard, and Jean Cocteau's film version of Beauty and the Beast. She demonstrates the relevance of these fairy tales for modern readers, both for the psychological problems they address and for the positive resolutions they offer. Through her careful examination of these tales, Knapp shows that people in past eras suffered from such supposedly "modern" problems as alienation and identity crises and went through harrowing ordeals before experiencing some sort of fulfillment. By imparting the age-old wisdom embedded in these works, French Fairy Tales triggers new insights into psychological problems and offers helpful ways of dealing with them.
Author | : Walter Yeeling Evans-Wentz |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 570 |
Release | : 1911 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
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In this study, which is first of all a folk-lore study, we pursue principally an anthropo-psychological method of interpreting the Celtic belief in fairies, though we do not hesitate now and then to call in the aid of philology; and we make good use of the evidence offered by mythologies, religions, metaphysics, and physical sciences.
Author | : W. Y. Evans-Wentz |
Publisher | : Good Press |
Total Pages | : 664 |
Release | : 2023-12-17 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : |
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The Fairy-Folklore in Celtic Countries is a study by W. Y. Evans-Wentz, American anthropologist who studied Celtic mythology and folklore. He performed ethnographic fieldwork collecting fairy folklore in Wales, Scotland, Ireland, Cornwall, Brittany, and the Isle of Man, and in this book he published his degree thesis. His goal was to elucidate the phenomenon of the Celtic belief in fairies. Some of the theories he came across are that the fairies were a cloistered race of dwarfs, that they are a product of our imagination, or that they are incorporeal spirits.
Author | : Thomas Keightley |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 588 |
Release | : 1900 |
Genre | : Fairy tales |
ISBN | : |
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