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Book Synopsis Northern Myths, Modern Identities by : Simon Halink
Download or read book Northern Myths, Modern Identities written by Simon Halink and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-05-15 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology of essays, Northern Myths, Modern Identities, explores the various ways in which northern mythologies have been employed in the cultural construction of ethnic, national and supra-national identities from 1800 to the present.
Book Synopsis Stories from Northern Myths by : Emilie Kip Baker
Download or read book Stories from Northern Myths written by Emilie Kip Baker and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-10-22 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stories From Northern Myths by Emilie Kip Baker explores the fascinating and colorful world of Norse mythology. You have seen the heroes in the movies. Now you can learn the original stories that inspired modern-day portrayals of Loki, Thor, Odin, Sif, and other legendary characters. Chapters in this book include, Odin's Search for Wisdom, Sif's Golden Hair and the Making of the Hammer, How Thor Fought the Giant Hrungner, The Valkyrie, How Brunhilde Came to Burgundy, and The Death of Siegfried.
Book Synopsis Scandinavism: Overlapping and Competing Identities in the Nordic World, 1770-1919 by : Tim van Gerven
Download or read book Scandinavism: Overlapping and Competing Identities in the Nordic World, 1770-1919 written by Tim van Gerven and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-01-21 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through an in-depth analysis of historicist literature and art, this book demonstrates that cultural Scandinavism, despite its failure as a political mobilizer, was highly successful in strengthening and extending national consciousness-raising in Denmark, Norway, and Sweden.
Book Synopsis Stories from Northern Myths by : Emilie K. Baker
Download or read book Stories from Northern Myths written by Emilie K. Baker and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-05-19 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Stories from Northern Myths" by Emilie K. Baker. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
Book Synopsis Mythology and Nation Building by : Sophie Bønding
Download or read book Mythology and Nation Building written by Sophie Bønding and published by Aarhus Universitetsforlag. This book was released on 2021-07-30 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stories of gods, heroes and monsters permeated discourses of national selfhood in the nineteenth century. During this tumultuous time, Europe’s modern nations arose from the misty waters of long-forgotten national pasts – or so was the perception at the time. Each embedded in their particular national and political contexts, towering cultural figures – N.F.S. Grundtvig, Jacob Grimm, Jonás Halgrímsson, William Morris, Adam Oehlenschläger and many more – were catalysts for the formation of national discourses of belonging, built upon the mythological story-worlds of Europe’s non-classical vernacular pasts. This interdisciplinary book offers new perspectives on the uses of pre-Christian mythologies in the formation of national communities in nineteenth-century Northern and Western Europe. Through theoretical articles and case studies, it puts forth new understandings of how cultural thinkers across Europe utilized pre-Christian mythologies as symbolic resources in the forging of national communities. Perceptions of national identity were thus shaped, many of which are still at play today.
Book Synopsis Beer and Brewing in Medieval Culture and Contemporary Medievalism by : John A. Geck
Download or read book Beer and Brewing in Medieval Culture and Contemporary Medievalism written by John A. Geck and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-06-25 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beer and Brewing in Medieval Culture and Contemporary Medievalism is a cross-cultural analysis of the role that alcohol consumption played in literature, social and cultural history, and gender roles in the Middle Ages. The volume also seeks to correct or offer new insights into historical beer production. By drawing on the expertise of scholars of history, archaeology, Old and Middle English, Old Norse, and Medieval and Early Modern literature, the book shows how historical medieval beer and brewing has influenced nostalgic post-medieval nationalism and romanticized visions of the medieval ale-house seen in beer marketing today. The essays describe alcohol consumption in the Middle Ages across much of Northern Europe, engage with the various myths employed in modern craft beer advertising and beer production, and examine how gender intersects with beer production and consumption. The editors also raise certain critical questions about medievalisms which need to be interrogated, particularly in light of the continued use of the Middle Ages for white supremacist and colonialist ideals. The volume contributes to the study of the popular and historical understandings of the Middle Ages as well the issues of race and gender.
Book Synopsis European Modernity and the Passionate South by :
Download or read book European Modernity and the Passionate South written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-12-19 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the long nineteenth century, dominant stereotypes presented people of the Mediterranean South as particularly passionate and unruly, therefore incapable of adapting to the moral and political duties imposed by European civilization and modernity. This book studies, for the first time in comparative perspective, the gender dimension of a process that legitimised internal hierarchies between North and South in the continent. It also analyses how this phenomenon was responded to from Spain and Italy, pointing to the similarities and differences between both countries. Drawing on travel narratives, satires, philosophical works, novels, plays, operas, and paintings, it shows how this transnational process affected, in changing historical contexts, the ways in which nation, gender, and modernity were imagined and mutually articulated.
Book Synopsis Nordic Experiences in Pan-nationalisms by : Ruth Hemstad
Download or read book Nordic Experiences in Pan-nationalisms written by Ruth Hemstad and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-06-30 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book seeks to reassess and shed new light on pan-nationalisms in general and on Scandinavianism/Nordism in particular, by seeing them as possible futures and as interconnected ideas and practices across and beyond Europe. An actor and practice oriented approach is applied at the expense of more essentialist categorizations of what pan-nationalism is, or is not to underline both the synchronic and diachronic diversity of various pan-national movements. A range of expert international scholars discuss encounters, transfers, similarities and differences among pan-movements in Norden and Europe based on a broad empirical material, focusing on Scandinavianism/Nordism, pan-Slavism, pan-Turanism, pan-Germanism and Greater Netherlandism, and the position of Britishness in Great Britain. This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of nationalism, European history, European studies and Scandinavian studies, history, social science, political geography, civil society and literary studies.
Book Synopsis Dreaming of a Glacier by : Matthias Egeler
Download or read book Dreaming of a Glacier written by Matthias Egeler and published by utzverlag GmbH. This book was released on 2020-06-16 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Snæfellsjökull is one of Iceland’s most famous volcanoes. It is there that Jules Verne located the entrance to the centre of the earth; it is the abode of a medieval saga hero and the location of one of Halldór Laxness’s novels. Travellers, painters, poets, and film-makers have been drawn to it in equal measure – while at the same time and against all expectations, others seem unfazed: as famous as the mountain is on a national and international stage, local folklore and medieval historiography have amazingly little interest in it. Clearly, Snæfellsjökull is not the same to everyone. This volume presents a survey of the place of Snæfellsjökull in the Icelandic and European imagination. It adapts the paradigm of geocriticism, which shifts the focus of the scholarly investigation from the work of individual authors to the multitude of views that different authors, artists, and practitioners have on a single place. The results of the perambulation of Snæfellsjökull presented here show that both its cultural and literary history, as well as the paradigm of geocriticism, open up broad vistas that amply repay the effort necessary to tackle this mountain.
Book Synopsis Theosophy and the Study of Religion by :
Download or read book Theosophy and the Study of Religion written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2024-06-14 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its emergence in the nineteenth century, the Theosophical Society has wielded enormous influence across diverse fields, none more so than the study of religion. This volume explores this legacy in North America, Europe, and India, demonstrating its impact on the conceptualization of “religion” and its influence on methods of comparison. Unveiling overlooked entanglements, the volume challenges standard narratives in the history of religious studies and interrogates the deliberate neglect of theosophy’s influence in the “secular” academy. In doing so, the work confronts lingering ghosts, urging a reappraisal that enriches the study of religion and offers prescriptions for its future.
Book Synopsis Stories from Northern Myths by : Emilie Kip Baker
Download or read book Stories from Northern Myths written by Emilie Kip Baker and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-07-19 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stories from Northern Myths By Emilie Kip Baker
Book Synopsis From Iceland to the Americas by : Tim William Machan
Download or read book From Iceland to the Americas written by Tim William Machan and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume investigates the reception of a small historical fact with wide-ranging social, cultural and imaginative consequences. Inspired by Leif Eiriksson’s visit to Vinland in about the year 1000, novels, poetry, history, politics, arts and crafts, comics, films and video games have all come to reflect rising interest in the medieval Norse and their North American presence. Uniquely in reception studies, From Iceland to the Americas approaches this dynamic between Nordic history and its reception by bringing together international authorities on mythology, language, film and cultural studies, as well as on the literature that has dominated critical reception. Collectively, the chapters not only explore the connections among medieval Iceland and the modern Americas, but also probe why medieval contact has become a modern cultural touchstone.
Book Synopsis Frisian Land Law: A Critical Edition and Translation of the Freeska Landriucht by : Han Nijdam
Download or read book Frisian Land Law: A Critical Edition and Translation of the Freeska Landriucht written by Han Nijdam and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-02-27 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Around 1485, the age-old compilation of Old Frisian customary law, partly dating back to the 11th century, was put into print. Latin glosses were included in the text with references to Canon and Roman law. This gloss tradition had come into being during the 13th and 14th centuries. This incunable came to be known as Freeska Landriucht or Frisian Land Law. This book presents its first edition with an English translation.
Book Synopsis Willibrord between Ireland, Britain and Merovingian Francia (690–739) by : Michel Summer
Download or read book Willibrord between Ireland, Britain and Merovingian Francia (690–739) written by Michel Summer and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2024-05-28 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The century between c. 650 and 750 was one of major religious, social and political transformations in northwest Europe. In the Frankish kingdom, clerics from Ireland and Britain played an important role in these processes. One of the most prominent figures to emerge from this period was Willibrord – a Northumbrian educated in Ireland who became the first bishop of Utrecht and founded the monastery of Echternach in modern Luxembourg. Through his involvement in the Christianisation of Frisia, his cooperation with the eastern Frankish elite, including the ancestors of Charlemagne, and his connection with the pope, Willibrord was at the centre of the developments which led to the formation of a new ecclesiastical and political landscape between the North Sea and Thuringia on the eve of the Carolingian period. This book, which represents the first extensive study of the topic in English, extends its analysis of Willibrord’s career beyond the mission to Frisia and examines the political dimension of his activity in Merovingian Francia and its border regions. By offering a fresh look at the main sources for Willibrord’s life, the book explores how Insular clerics shaped their Frankish environment through the creation of networks between Ireland, Britain and the continent and their ability to take on a variety of different roles within Merovingian society.
Book Synopsis Border images, border narratives by : Johan Schimanski
Download or read book Border images, border narratives written by Johan Schimanski and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2021-02-02 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This interdisciplinary volume explores the role of images and narratives in different borderscapes. Written by experienced scholars in the field, Border images, border narratives provides fresh insight into how borders, borderscapes, and migration are imagined and narrated in public and private spheres. Offering new ways to approach the political aesthetics of the border and its ambiguities, this volume makes a valuable contribution to the methodological renewal of border studies and presents ways of discussing cultural representations of borders and related processes. Influenced by the thinking of philosopher Jacques Rancière, this timely volume argues that narrated and mediated images of borders and borderscapes are central to the political process, as they contribute to the public negotiation of borders and address issues such as the in/visiblity of migrants and the formation of alternative borderscapes. The contributions analyse narratives and images in literary texts, political and popular imagery, surveillance data, border art, and documentaries, as well as problems related to borderland identities, migration, and trauma. The case studies provide a highly comparative range of geographical contexts ranging from Northern Europe and Britain, via Mediterranean and Mexican-USA borderlands, to Chinese borderlands from the perspectives of critical theory, literary studies, social anthropology, media studies, and political geography.
Book Synopsis The Children of Odin by : Padraic Colum
Download or read book The Children of Odin written by Padraic Colum and published by . This book was released on 2016-12-18 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Frisians of the Early Middle Ages by : John Hines
Download or read book Frisians of the Early Middle Ages written by John Hines and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2021 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Multi-disciplinary approaches shed fresh light on the Frisian people and their changing cultures.
