The Mythology of the British Islands
Author | : Charles Squire |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 472 |
Release | : 1905 |
Genre | : British Isles |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Charles Squire |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 472 |
Release | : 1905 |
Genre | : British Isles |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Geoffrey Ashe |
Publisher | : Methuen Publishing |
Total Pages | : 333 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Legends |
ISBN | : 9780413771995 |
Recounting stories and legends from the dark centuries of British prehistory to the 9th century AD, Ashe shows how they interrelate and take on fresh significance from historical and archaeological research.
Author | : Charles Squire |
Publisher | : Good Press |
Total Pages | : 382 |
Release | : 2023-11-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Charles Squire |
Publisher | : Legare Street Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2022-10-27 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781015995550 |
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Author | : Richard W. Barber |
Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer |
Total Pages | : 622 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Legends |
ISBN | : 9780851157481 |
THE BRITISH ISLES have a long tradition of tales of gods, heroes and marvels, hinting at a mythology once as relevant to the races which settled the islands as the Greek and Roman gods were to the classical world.The tales drawn together in this book, from a wide range of medieval sources, span the centuries from the dawn of Christianity to the age of the Plantagenets. The Norse gods which peopled the Anglo-Saxon past survive in Beowulf/I>; Cuchulainn, Taliesin and the magician Merlin take shape from Celtic mythology; and saints include Helena who brought a piece of the True Cross to Britain, and Joseph of Arimathea whose staff grew into the Glastonbury thorn. Tales of the British Arthur are followed by legends of later heroes, including Harold, Hereward and Godiva. These figures and many others were part of a familiar national mythology on which Shakespeare drew for Lear, Macbeth and Hamlet, creating the famous versions that are known today. Here the original stories are presented again. RICHARD BARBER's other books include King Arthur: Hero and Legend, Arthurian Legends: An Anthology, and The Knight and Chivalry; he is currently working on a study of the legend of the Holy Grail.Borders.com: England and the British Isles have a rich and still thriving tradition of myths and legends - and this wonderful volume collects together more than thirty of the best from a number of sources... an incredible insight into the fascinating yet complex history of the British Isles and its peoples... Those fascinated by mythology will want to add this wonderful book to their collections.
Author | : Geoffrey Ashe |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : |
"Geoffrey Ashe's lavishly illustrated Mythology of the British Isles retells the legendary history of Britain and uncovers a national mythology which is comparable to that of the Greeks in its richness and cohesiveness. Recounting stories and legends from the dark centuries of British prehistory to the ninth century AD - tales of giants and fairies, druids and saints, King Lear, King Arthur and Old King Cole - he shows how they all interrelate and take on fresh significance from historical and archaeological research"--Back cover.
Author | : Christopher R. Fee |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2004-03-18 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780198038788 |
The islands of Britain have been a crossroads of gods, heroes, and kings-those of flesh as well as those of myth-for thousands of years. Successive waves of invasion brought distinctive legends, rites, and beliefs. The ancient Celts displaced earlier indigenous peoples, only to find themselves displaced in turn by the Romans, who then abandoned the islands to Germanic tribes, a people themselves nearly overcome in time by an influx of Scandinavians. With each wave of invaders came a battle for the mythic mind of the Isles as the newcomer's belief system met with the existing systems of gods, legends, and myths. In Gods, Heroes, and Kings, medievalist Christopher Fee and veteran myth scholar David Leeming unearth the layers of the British Isles' unique folkloric tradition to discover how this body of seemingly disparate tales developed. The authors find a virtual battlefield of myths in which pagan and Judeo-Christian beliefs fought for dominance, and classical, Anglo-Saxon, Germanic, and Celtic narrative threads became tangled together. The resulting body of legends became a strange but coherent hybrid, so that by the time Chaucer wrote "The Wife of Bath's Tale" in the fourteenth century, a Christian theme of redemption fought for prominence with a tripartite Celtic goddess and the Arthurian legends of Sir Gawain-itself a hybrid mythology. Without a guide, the corpus of British mythology can seem impenetrable. Taking advantage of the latest research, Fee and Leeming employ a unique comparative approach to map the origins and development of one of the richest folkloric traditions. Copiously illustrated with excerpts in translation from the original sources,Gods, Heroes, and Kings provides a fascinating and accessible new perspective on the history of British mythology.
Author | : Charles Squire |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : British Isles |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Geoffrey Ashe |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Legends |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Charles Squire |
Publisher | : Hardpress Publishing |
Total Pages | : 468 |
Release | : 2012-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781290256537 |
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