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Author | : Lucy Audley-Miller |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 481 |
Release | : 2018-10-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 3110421518 |
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In spite of the growing amount of important new work being carried out on uses of myth in particular ancient contexts, their appeal and reception beyond the framework of one culture have rarely been the primary object of enquiry in contemporary debate. Highlighting the fact that ancient societies were linked by their shared use of mythological narratives, Wandering Myths aims to advance our understanding of the mechanisms by which such tales were disseminated cross-culturally and to investigate how they gained local resonances. In order to assess both wider geographic circulations and to explore specific local features and interpretations, a regional approach is adopted, with a particular focus on Anatolia, the Near East and Italy. Contributions are drawn from a range of disciplines, and cross a wide chronological span, but all are interlinked by their engagement with questions focusing on the factors that guided the processes of reception and steered the facets of local interpretation. The Preface and Epilogue evaluate the material in a synoptic way and frame the challenging questions and views expressed in the Introduction.
Author | : Lucy Gaynor Audley-Miller |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 481 |
Release | : 2018-10-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 3110421453 |
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In spite of the growing amount of important new work being carried out on uses of myth in particular ancient contexts, their appeal and reception beyond the framework of one culture have rarely been the primary object of enquiry in contemporary debate. Highlighting the fact that ancient societies were linked by their shared use of mythological narratives, Wandering Myths aims to advance our understanding of the mechanisms by which such tales were disseminated cross-culturally and to investigate how they gained local resonances. In order to assess both wider geographic circulations and to explore specific local features and interpretations, a regional approach is adopted, with a particular focus on Anatolia, the Near East and Italy. Contributions are drawn from a range of disciplines, and cross a wide chronological span, but all are interlinked by their engagement with questions focusing on the factors that guided the processes of reception and steered the facets of local interpretation. The Preface and Epilogue evaluate the material in a synoptic way and frame the challenging questions and views expressed in the Introduction.
Author | : S. BARING-GOULD |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2024 |
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ISBN | : |
Download MYTHS OF THE MIDDLE AGES. Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Sam D. Gill |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 291 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0195115872 |
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Storytracking is a work of theory and application. It is both a study of history and culture and of the academic issues accompanying the interpretation and observation of other peoples. Sam Gill writes about Central Australia, but, more importantly, he writes about the business of trying to live responsibly and decisively in a postmodern world faced with irreconcilable diversity and complexity, with undeniable ambiguity and uncertainty.
Author | : Ben Dodds |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 291 |
Release | : 2021-12-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 3030890589 |
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This book explores modern representations of the Black Death, a medieval pandemic. The concept of cultural memory is used to examine the ways in which journalists, writers of fiction, scholars and others referred to, described and explained the Black Death from around 1800 onwards. The distant medieval past was often used to make sense of aspects of the present, from the cholera pandemics of the nineteenth-century to the climate crisis of the early twenty-first century. A series of overlapping myths related to the Black Death emerged based only in part on historical evidence. Cultural memory circulates in a variety of media from the scholarly article to the video game and online video clip, and the connections and differences between mediated representations of the Black Death are considered. The Black Death is one of the most well-known aspects of the medieval world, and this study of its associated memories and myths reveals the depth and complexity of interactions between the distant and recent past.
Author | : Mary Huse Eastman |
Publisher | : Faxon Company |
Total Pages | : 632 |
Release | : 1926 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780873050289 |
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Author | : Sabine Baring-Gould |
Publisher | : London : Rivingtons |
Total Pages | : 680 |
Release | : 1884 |
Genre | : Folklore |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Intan Paramaditha |
Publisher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 448 |
Release | : 2020-02-13 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1473562392 |
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*The most unusual novel you will read all year, where you create your own story* 'An ingenious choose-your-own-adventure challenge' Lauren Elkin, Guardian Longlisted for the 2021 Stella Prize You've grown roots, you're gathering moss. You're desperate to escape your boring life teaching English in Jakarta, to go out and see the world. So you make a Faustian pact with a devil, who gives you a gift, and a warning. A pair of red shoes to take you wherever you want to go. Turn the page and make your choice. You may become a tourist or an undocumented migrant, a mother or a murderer, and you will meet other travellers with their own stories to tell. Freedom awaits but borders are real. And no story is ever new. 'Sets you free to roam the Earth... an incisive commentary on the cosmopolitan condition' Tiffany Tsao 'An electrifying novel about cosmopolitanism and global nomadism that keeps readers on their toes' Book Riot Winner of an English PEN Translates Award, and a Heim Translation Fund Grant from PEN America
Author | : Sabine Baring-Gould |
Publisher | : DigiCat |
Total Pages | : 127 |
Release | : 2023-11-14 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : |
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Curious Myths of the Middle Ages is a collection of a dozen of tales and legends from medieval England. The author does a thorough research relating these stories to the extant mythology from many ancient cultures, tracing the origin of each myth. Table of Contents: The Wandering Jew Prester John The Divining Rod The Seven Sleepers of Ephesus William Tell The Dog Gellert Tailed Men Antichrist and Pope Joan The Man in the Moon The Mountain of Venus Fatality of Numbers The Terrestrial Paradise
Author | : Sabine Baring-Gould |
Publisher | : e-artnow |
Total Pages | : 135 |
Release | : 2021-05-07 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : |
Download The Most Curious Medieval Myths Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This collection include a dozen of tales and legends from medieval England. The author does a thorough research relating these stories to the extant mythology from many ancient cultures, tracing the origin of each myth. Table of Contents: The Wandering Jew Prester John The Divining Rod The Seven Sleepers of Ephesus William Tell The Dog Gellert Tailed Men Antichrist and Pope Joan The Man in the Moon The Mountain of Venus Fatality of Numbers The Terrestrial Paradise