Ancient Legends Retold The Legend Of Vortigern

Download Ancient Legends Retold The Legend Of Vortigern full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online Ancient Legends Retold The Legend Of Vortigern ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!

The Ancient Legends Retold Vortigern

Author : Simon Heywood
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752493701
Total Pages : 71 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (524 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Ancient Legends Retold Vortigern by : Simon Heywood

Download or read book The Ancient Legends Retold Vortigern written by Simon Heywood and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2013-04-08 with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'My name is Vortigern ... 'Generations before Arthur's birth, a British warlord looks back on his life: his rise from humble roots to shake the thrones of a dying empire; his stand against chaos amid the aftermath of Rome; his struggle with the greedy, embittered princes of church and kingdom; his loves and his losses, and his last encounter with his own mysterious destiny, on a mountain where the world we know is beginning to take shape before his eyes. Vortigern's voice speaks from the heart of a forgotten darkness, telling a story of courage and cowardice, glory and crime, tragedy and treason.

Ancient Legends Retold: The Legend of Vortigern

Author : Simon Heywood
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752493701
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (524 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Ancient Legends Retold: The Legend of Vortigern by : Simon Heywood

Download or read book Ancient Legends Retold: The Legend of Vortigern written by Simon Heywood and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2013-04-08 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'My name is Vortigern ... ' Generations before Arthur's birth, a British warlord looks back on his life: his rise from humble roots to shake the thrones of a dying empire; his stand against chaos amid the aftermath of Rome; his struggle with the greedy, embittered princes of church and kingdom; his loves and his losses, and his last encounter with his own mysterious destiny, on a mountain where the world we know is beginning to take shape before his eyes. Vortigern's voice speaks from the heart of a forgotten darkness, telling a story of courage and cowardice, glory and crime, tragedy and treason.

Ancient Legends Retold: The Legend of Pryderi

Author : Fiona Collins
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752493698
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (524 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Ancient Legends Retold: The Legend of Pryderi by : Fiona Collins

Download or read book Ancient Legends Retold: The Legend of Pryderi written by Fiona Collins and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2013-04-08 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Four Branches of the Mabinogion are a rich treasure trove of tales. These magical, quintessentially Welsh stories are confusing, but it would be hard to match their splendid strangeness. The Four Branches tell of the kings and queens of Wales in the time of' 'Once upon a time'. Only one character appears in all Four Branches. He is Pryderi, and the story of his life journey is told in this book. Pryderi is brave and bold: sometimes foolhardy, always fiercely loyal. The stories of two beautiful, powerful women entwine with his: Rhiannon of the Birds, his mother, and Cigfa, his wife. Both accompany him on his life path. But, at the last, Pryderi must go on alone. Here, for the first time, his tale is told from beginning to end.

Ancient Legends Retold: The Seat Perilous

Author : Bernard Kelly
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 075249273X
Total Pages : 91 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (524 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Ancient Legends Retold: The Seat Perilous by : Bernard Kelly

Download or read book Ancient Legends Retold: The Seat Perilous written by Bernard Kelly and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2013-04-01 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Around the round table there was always one seat which remained empty. This was the place left for the knight who would one day attain the Grail and restore the land. This mysterious piece of furniture, the Seat Perilous, has been part of Arthurian myth for a 1,000 years. It was the original hot seat – if you sat there and were not the one, you would be consumed by fire. These are the untold tales of the knights who went out into the world and the ladies of the lake they found there. This book follows them into an unknown interior where they encounter the Queen of the Wasteland and through her story, return with the greatest prize of all.

South Yorkshire Folk Tales

Author : Simon Heywood
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750966416
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (59 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis South Yorkshire Folk Tales by : Simon Heywood

Download or read book South Yorkshire Folk Tales written by Simon Heywood and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2015-10-05 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With origins lost in the mists of time, these lively folk tales reflect the wisdom (and eccentricities) of South Yorkshire's county and people. Amongst the heroes and villains, giants and fairies, knights and highwaymen, are well-known figures, such as Robin Hood and the Dragon of Wantley, as well as lesser-known tales of mysterious goings-on at Firbeck Hall and Roche Abbey. These enchanting tales, many never before recorded in print, will bewitch readers and storytellers, young and old alike.

Italy and Early Medieval Europe

Author : Ross Balzaretti
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191083267
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Italy and Early Medieval Europe by : Ross Balzaretti

Download or read book Italy and Early Medieval Europe written by Ross Balzaretti and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-26 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive survey of recent work in Medieval Italian history and archaeology by an international cast of contributors, arranged within a broader context of studies on other regions and major historical transitions in Europe, c.400 to c.1400CE. Each of the contributors reflect on the contribution made to the field by Chris Wickham, whose own work spans studies based on close archival work, to broad and ambitious statements on economic and social change in the transition from Roman to medieval Europe, and the value of comparing this across time and space.

Myths and Hero Tales

Author : Agnes Regan Perkins
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313008108
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Myths and Hero Tales by : Agnes Regan Perkins

Download or read book Myths and Hero Tales written by Agnes Regan Perkins and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1997-11-25 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This one-stop cross-cultural selective guide to recent retellings of myths and hero tales for children and young adults will enable teachers and library media specialists to select comparative myths and tales from various, mostly non-European cultures. The focus is on stories from Native America, Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Central and South America, and Oceania. The Guide contains extensively annotated entries on 189 books of retellings of myths and hero tales, both ancient and modern, from around the world published between 1985 and 1996. Represented are 1,455 stories suitable for use with young people from mid-elementary through high school. The entries, arranged alphabetically by writer, contain complete bibliographic data, age and grade levels, and evaluative annotations. Seven indexes—title, author, illustrator, culture, story type, name, and grade level—make searching easy. The story type index will enable teachers to select comparative myths and tales from different cultures on more than 50 types of myths and hero tales. Among the many myth types cited are origin of human beings and the world, comparative social customs and rituals, natural and heavenly phenomena, animal appearance and behavior, searches and quests, and tricksters. Among the hero tale types are fools and buffoons, kings and queens, warriors, monster slayers, important female figures, magicians, voyagers and adventurers, and spiritual leaders. The Guide concludes with a bibliography of retellings published earlier that have come to be considered standard works.

Legends of the World

Author : Richard Cavendish
Publisher : New York : Schocken
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Legends of the World by : Richard Cavendish

Download or read book Legends of the World written by Richard Cavendish and published by New York : Schocken. This book was released on 1982 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Legends and myths are at the heart of human culture. If we would understand the religion or literature of a people, we must first understand their myths and legends. Sometimes, the myths and legends, as sacred stories, embody the entire religious tradition of a people. Sometimes, as in Judaism and Christianity, the stories are both the origins of the religious tradition and also a later expression of their ethical message and messianic hopes. Now the major myths, legends, and sagas of the world's major cultures have been summarized in a single volume for the first time. The result is a reference work in the form of stories from all parts of the world.

A Bibliography of Modern Arthuriana (1500-2000)

Author : Ann F. Howey
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1843840685
Total Pages : 806 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (438 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis A Bibliography of Modern Arthuriana (1500-2000) by : Ann F. Howey

Download or read book A Bibliography of Modern Arthuriana (1500-2000) written by Ann F. Howey and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2006 with total page 806 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotated bibliography of the Arthurian legend in modern English-language fiction, not only in literary texts, but in television, music, and art. The legend of Arthur has been a source of fascination for writers and artists in English since the fifteenth century, when Thomas Malory drew together for the first time in English a variety of Arthurian stories from a number of sources to form the Morte Darthur. It increased in popularity during the Victorian era, when after Tennyson's treatment of the legend, not only authors and dramatists, but painters, musicians, and film-makers found a sourceof inspiration in the Arthurian material. This interdisciplinary, annotated bibliography lists the Arthurian legend in modern English-language fiction, from 1500 to 2000, including literary texts, film, television, music, visual art, and games. It will prove an invaluable source of reference for students of literary and visual arts, general readers, collectors, librarians, and cultural historians--indeed, by anyone interested in the history of the waysin which Camelot has figured in post-medieval English-speaking cultures. ANN F. HOWEY is Assistant Professor at Brock University, Canada; STEPHEN R. REIMER is Associate Professor at the University of Alberta, Canada

A Book about the Film Monty Python and the Holy Grail

Author : Darl Larsen
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442245549
Total Pages : 633 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis A Book about the Film Monty Python and the Holy Grail by : Darl Larsen

Download or read book A Book about the Film Monty Python and the Holy Grail written by Darl Larsen and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-03-06 with total page 633 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monty Python’s Flying Circus aired from 1969 until 1974, but the conclusion of the series did not mark the end of the troupe’s creative output. Even before the final original episodes were recorded and broadcast, the six members began work on their first feature-length enterprise of new material. Rather than string together a series of silly skits, they conceived a full-length story line with references to the real and imagined worlds of the mythical King Arthur, the lives of medieval peasants, and the gloomy climate of 1970s Britain. Released in 1975, Monty Python and the Holy Grail was a modest success but has since been hailed as a modern classic. In A Book about the Film Monty Python and the Holy Grail:All the References from African Swallows to Zoot, Darl Larsen identifies and examines the cultural, historical, and topical allusions in the movie. In this entertaining resource, virtually every reference that appears in a scene—whether stated by a character, depicted in the mise-en-scène, or mentioned in the print companion—is identified and explained. Beyond the Arthurian legend, entries cover literary metaphors, symbols, names, peoples, and places—as well as the myriad social, cultural, and historical elements that populate the film. This book employs the film as a window to both reveal and examine “Arthurian” life and literature, the historical Middle Ages, and a Great Britain of labor unrest, power shortages, and the common man. Introducing the reader to dozens of medievalist histories and authors and connecting the film concretely to the “modern” British Empire, A Book about the Film Monty Python and the Holy Grail will appeal to fans of the troupe as well as medieval scholars and academics who can laugh at themselves and their work.

Myths and Legends

Author : Belinda Gallagher
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781786179395
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (793 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Myths and Legends by : Belinda Gallagher

Download or read book Myths and Legends written by Belinda Gallagher and published by . This book was released on 2019-04-05 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating book combines reference and carefully retold myths and legends. A detailed history of world mythology is told in easy-to-read bulleted facts, with fantastic images and artwork to illustrate. These spreads are interspersed with classic myths and legends of the Greeks, Romans and Egyptians, along with some lesser-known tales.

Stone Lord

Author : J. P. Reedman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781908200952
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (9 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Stone Lord by : J. P. Reedman

Download or read book Stone Lord written by J. P. Reedman and published by . This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Southern Britain, the Giants Dance stands alone on the Great Plain. For 500 years its massive trilithons have remained unruled by any chief. With invaders from distant lands attacking Britain's shores to steal its precious tin, another king must be chosen-this is the Quest of the Merlin, high priest and shaman. He brings together U'thyr Pendraec, the Terrible Head, and the beautiful Y'gerna, wife of another man, and from them a child is born...a boy who can move a sacred stone and take the ancient dagger beneath...a boy who will become High King. With totems of power and an ancestral sword from the depths of the sacred lake, Ardhu Pendraec assumes the mantle of the Stone Lord, ruler of the Great Trilithon, protector of ancient Britain.... It is a time of gold-clad kings, a time of ritual and death, a time of Axe and Dagger. The beautiful Irish Princess, Fynavir, the White Phantom, is Ardhu's chosen Bride. The Breton Prince An'kelet, bearer of the Great Spear, is his right-hand man. Yet, Ardhu's 'Golden Age' is fleeting, with betrayal and deception rife by those closest to him - Morigau, his scheming half-sister, who releases the Boar T'orc to ravage the land...and Fynavir and An'kelet, whose forbidden passion may bring down all the young King has worked to attain. ***** Stone Lord is a book set in Britain's prehistory such as you've never read before.... Mixing fiction with the latest discoveries, intertwining myth with real archaeology, this is a novel of the prehistoric origins of the man we call KING ARTHUR ...

Myths of the Norsemen

Author : Roger Lancelyn Green
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (153 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Myths of the Norsemen by : Roger Lancelyn Green

Download or read book Myths of the Norsemen written by Roger Lancelyn Green and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Arthurian Book of Days

Author : Caitlin Matthews
Publisher : Macmillan Reference USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Arthurian Book of Days by : Caitlin Matthews

Download or read book The Arthurian Book of Days written by Caitlin Matthews and published by Macmillan Reference USA. This book was released on 1990 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Dust Jacket: The legend of King Arthur, the Once and Future King, and the Knights of the Round Table is among the most powerful and durable of myths. It has been expanded and elaborated countless times, in many languages, and appeals as strongly to the romantic imagination of today as it did to the medieval audience for whom it was first set down. The Arthurian Book of Days is a unique way to enter this dramatic, colorful world. It can be consulted throughout the year, recounting the adventures of Arthur and his companions on a daily, seasonal, or annual basis. Many of the stories in the Arthurian cycle are commemorated on the day or days with which they are traditionally associated; each day throughout the year tells a different story or part of a story. Many strands of history and myth are woven into the tales of Arthur: his splendid Fellowship of Knights and their quest for the Holy Grail; his beautiful Queen, Guinevere; and his dearest friend, Sir Lancelot, the Queen's lover. All the well-known characters and stories are to be found in the pages of this book: the Sword in the Stone; the magician and counselor Merlin and his love, Nimue; the Lady of the Lake; the tale of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight; the mysterious and terrifying Tarn Watheling; the love of Tristran and Isolt; the Pursuit of the Questing Beast; and many more, including a number of stories never before translated into English. The authors have drawn on the full range of Arthurian manuscripts from all over Europe as well as traditional British tales, presenting the stories in a language that preserves the spirit of the original while appealing to a contemporary audience. Two features allow the reader to follow the stories in strict chronology, should this be desired: there are cross-references at the end of many entries; and there is a chronological listing of all the events in the complete cycle. The Arthurian Book of Days is the first modern book on the Arthurian cycle that directly links the stories with their original, richly decorated medieval illustrations. Over seventy are reproduced in this book in full color, many photographed here for the first time.

The Openess of Myth

Author : Nicole Dentzien
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Openess of Myth by : Nicole Dentzien

Download or read book The Openess of Myth written by Nicole Dentzien and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In ihrer in englischer Sprache verfassten Arbeit The Openness of Myth: The Arthurian Legend in the Middle Ages and Today wird unter Anwendung moderner literaturtheoretischer Ansätze ein Erklärungsmodell für die Schwankungen in der Popularität von Mythen am Beispiel mittelalterlicher und moderner Artusliteratur entwickelt. Bei der Einteilung der postulierten "Offenheit" des Stoffes in historische, kulturelle, inter-textuelle und text-inhärente Aspekte steht vor allem der Prozess der Überlieferung unter kulturhistorischen Gesichtspunkten im Mittelpunkt. Als Beispiele wurden Malorys mittelalterlicher Prosaroman Le Morte Darthur' der moderne britische Roman Sword at Sunset von Rosemary Sutcliff und der US-amerikanische Roman Arthur Rex von Thomas Berger gewählt.

Chivalric Stories as Children's Literature

Author : Velma Bourgeois Richmond
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786496223
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Chivalric Stories as Children's Literature by : Velma Bourgeois Richmond

Download or read book Chivalric Stories as Children's Literature written by Velma Bourgeois Richmond and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-09-17 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Knights and ladies, giants and dragons, tournaments, battles, quests and crusades are commonplace in stories for children. This book examines how late Victorians and Edwardians retold medieval narratives of chivalry--epics, romances, sagas, legends and ballads. Stories of Beowulf, Arthur, Gawain, St. George, Roland, Robin Hood and many more thrilled and instructed children, and encouraged adult reading. Lavish volumes and schoolbooks of the era featured illustrated texts, many by major artists. Children's books, an essential part of Edwardian publishing, were disseminated throughout the English-speaking world. Many are being reprinted today. This book examines related contexts of Medievalism expressed in painting, architecture, music and public celebrations, and the works of major authors, including Sir Walter Scott, Tennyson, Longfellow and William Morris. The book explores national identity expressed through literature, ideals of honor and valor in the years before World War I, and how childhood reading influenced 20th-century writers as diverse as C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, Siegfried Sassoon, David Jones, Graham Greene, Ian Fleming and John Le Carre.

Radio Camelot

Author : Roger Simpson
Publisher : DS Brewer
ISBN 13 : 9781843841401
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (414 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Radio Camelot by : Roger Simpson

Download or read book Radio Camelot written by Roger Simpson and published by DS Brewer. This book was released on 2008 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author provides a full account of Arthurian radio drama, which evolved from D.G. Bridson's patriotic pre-war 'King Arthur', via fascinations with the Holy Grail and the Lady of Shalott, to its flowering in the 1990s with Kevin Crossley-Holland's 'Arthur's Knight'.