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Author : Stephen Pollington
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781898281542
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (815 download)
Download or read book The Meadhall written by Stephen Pollington and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three appendices: --
Author : Stephen Pollington
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Mead Hall written by Stephen Pollington and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pollington has written and spoken widely on Anglo-Saxon language, literature, society, and culture. Here he describes feasting and society, the mead hall as living and ritual space, food and feasting equipment, positions of power, and entertainment. He includes a glossary with pronunciations, and sa
Author : John Gardner
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307756785
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)
Download or read book Grendel written by John Gardner and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2010-06-02 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This classic and much lauded retelling of Beowulf follows the monster Grendel as he learns about humans and fights the war at the center of the Anglo Saxon classic epic. "An extraordinary achievement."—New York Times The first and most terrifying monster in English literature, from the great early epic Beowulf, tells his own side of the story in this frequently banned book. This is the novel William Gass called "one of the finest of our contemporary fictions."
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Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486111105
Total Pages : 70 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (861 download)
Download or read book Beowulf written by and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finest heroic poem in Old English celebrates the exploits of Beowulf, a young nobleman of southern Sweden. Combines myth, Christian and pagan elements, and history into a powerful narrative. Genealogies.
Author : Sean David Burke
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0244507562
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (445 download)
Download or read book Lighting the Literacy Fire written by Sean David Burke and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-12 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book covers three interdependent areas; 1) Readiness for learning, 2) Teaching language skills, and 3) Learning together. These provide a foundation for teaching that can bring our children into a more creative relationship with their own language.
Author : M. J. Toswell
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1725244500
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (252 download)
Download or read book The Year's Work in Medievalism, 2008 written by M. J. Toswell and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2009-04-01 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Year's Work in Medievalism 2008 includes papers delivered at the 22nd Annual conference on Medievalism, organized by the International Society for Studies in Medievalism, and held at the University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada on 4-7 October 2007. The topic of the conference was "Neomedievalisms" and these papers address various aspects of the term, including its definition, range, and application, The conference was organized by M. J. Toswell, who is the editor of this volume; the Director of Conferences and Series Editor of the Year's Work in Medievalism is Gwendolyn Morgan.
Author : Raffaele D’Amato
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472855361
Total Pages : 65 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (728 download)
Download or read book Anglo-Saxon Kings and Warlords AD 400–1070 written by Raffaele D’Amato and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-10-26 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richly illustrated, this title describes Anglo-Saxon monarchs, warlords and their warriors and households in Anglo-Saxon Britain, from the first post-Roman mercenaries to the Norman Conquest. In a country fragmented by Roman withdrawal during the 5th century AD, the employment of Germanic mercenaries by local rulers in Anglo-Saxon Britain was commonplace. These mercenaries became settlers, forcing Romano-British communities into Wales and the West Country. Against a background of spreading Christianity, the struggles of rival British and Anglo-Saxon kingdoms were exploited by the Vikings, but eventually contained by the Anglo-Saxon king, Alfred of Wessex. His descendants unified the country during the 10th century, however, subsequent weak rule saw its 25-year incorporation into a Danish empire before it finally fell to the Norman invasion of 1066. Scholars of the early Church have long known that the term 'Dark Ages' for the 5th to 11th centuries in Britain refers only to a lack of written sources, and gives a false impression of material culture. The Anglo-Saxon warrior elite were equipped with magnificent armour, influenced by the cultures of the late Romans, the Scandinavian Vendel people, the Frankish Merovingians, Carolingians and Ottonians, and also the Vikings. In this volume, co-authors Raffaele D'Amato and Stephen Pollington access their extended knowledge to paint a vivid picture of the kings and warlords of the time with the aid of colour illustrations, rare photos and the latest archaeological research.
Author : Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9789400716919
Total Pages : 749 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (169 download)
Download or read book Phenomenology/Ontopoiesis Retrieving Geo-cosmic Horizons of Antiquity written by Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-08-10 with total page 749 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The controversy of flux and stasis as the groundwork of reality of Greek ancient philosophy reached its crux in the all encompassing doctrine of the logos by Heraclitus of Ephesus. It centers upon human soul in its role with the cosmos. Philosophy of the Occident corroborating Greek insights with the progress of culture in numerous interpretations (Kant, Kierkegaard, Husserl, Merleau-Ponty, Ricoeur...), presented in this collection has neglected the cosmic sphere. While contemporary development of science revealed its grounding principles (papers by Grandpierre, Kule and Trutty-Coohill) the ancient logos fully emerges. Thus, logos hitherto hidden in our commerce with earth is revealed in its intertwinings with the cosmos through the trajectories of the phenomenology/ontopoiesis of life (Tymieniecka). The crucial link between the soul and the cosmos, in a new geo-cosmic horizon, is thus being retrieved.
Author : Michael Minnis
Publisher : BookRix
ISBN 13 : 3748775326
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (487 download)
Download or read book FROM DUNWICH TO INNSMOUTH written by Michael Minnis and published by BookRix. This book was released on 2021-02-23 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She grabbed my hand, pulling me with her to the side of the road, so that we resembled two small, huddled, frightened children, haunted by the mad dance of the wind and the crippled trees. The pale white sun peeked out from behind a bulwark of clouds, but even its presence was no comfort - »Don't look at it,« Sarah whispered. »The sun?« »The sky. Don't look at it. It's where they come from. The sky. The air. They see everything. He sees everything...« »Sarah?«, I asked, startled. »Sarah, what's going on?« The terrified narrator's account of nameless horrors in Dunwich in the story The Girl Who Ran In Circles kicks off a round of new stories and novellas that do not conceal, even in their titles, that they follow H. P. Lovecraft's stories. Others evoke nameless horrors of an apocalyptic future or tell new fantastic adventures from the land of Averoigne - a fictional counterpart to a historical province in France - which appeared in a series of short stories from Clark Ashton Smith.
Author : Kathryn Hume
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317638522
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)
Download or read book Fantasy and Mimesis (Routledge Revivals) written by Kathryn Hume and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-08-01 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since Plato and Aristotle’s declaration of the essence of literature as imitation, western narrative has been traditionally discussed in mimetic terms. Marginalized fantasy- the deliberate from reality – has become the hidden face of fiction, identified by most critics as a minor genre. First published in 1984, this book rejects generic definitions of fantasy, arguing that it is not a separate or even separable strain in literary practice, but rather an impulse as significant as that of mimesis. Together, fantasy and mimesis are the twin impulses behind literary creation. In an analysis that ranges from the Icelandic sagas to science fiction, from Malory to pulp romance, Kathryn Hume systematically examines the various ways in which fantasy and mimesis contribute to literary representations of reality. A detailed and comprehensive title, this reissue will be of particular value to undergraduate literature students with an interest in literary genres and the centrality of literature to the creative imagination.
Author : Galina Krasskova
Publisher : Weiser Books
ISBN 13 : 1633411486
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (334 download)
Download or read book A Modern Guide to Heathenry written by Galina Krasskova and published by Weiser Books. This book was released on 2019-12-01 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An accessible yet in-depth guide to this increasingly popular pre-Christian religious tradition of Northern Europe Heathenry, is one of the fastest growing polytheistic religious movements in the United States today. This book explores the cosmology, values, ethics, and rituals practiced by modern heathens. In A Modern Guide to Heathenry readers will have the opportunity to explore the sacred stories of the various heathen gods like Odin, Frigga, Freya, and Thor and will be granted a look into the devotional practices of modern votaries. Blóts, the most common devotional rites, are examined in rich detail with examples given for personal use. Additionally, readers are introduced to the concept of wyrd, or fate, so integral to the heathen worldview. Unlike many books on heathenry, this one is not denomination-specific, nor does it seek to overwhelm the reader with unfamiliar Anglo-Saxon or Norse terminology. For Pagans who wish to learn more about the Norse deities or those who are new to heathenry or who are simply interested in learning about this unique religion, A Modern Guide to Heathenry is the perfect introduction. Those who wish to deepen their own devotional practice will find this book helpful in their own work as well.
Author : Ricardo J. Quinones
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400862140
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book The Changes of Cain written by Ricardo J. Quinones and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Era by era, from the writings of the classical Christian epoch up to East of Eden and Amadeus, from Philo to Finnegans Wake, Ricardo Quinones examines the contexts of a master metaphor of our culture. This brilliant work is the first comprehensive book on the Cain and Abel story. "Ricardo Quinones takes us on a grand tour of Western civilization in his admirable book, which reveals the riches of the Cain-Abel story as it develops from its Biblical origin to Citizen Kane and Michel Tournier. This is cultural history and literary criticism of the first order, finely written, formidably but gracefully erudite, and illustrating the capacity of Judeo-Christian culture and the modernity emerging from it constantly to criticize the darker side of its own foundations and realizations."--Joseph Frank "Ricardo J. Quinones skips Biblical and Talmudic exegesis to follow Cain and Abel through later centuries, from classical times to the present. What he uncovers sheds light on important shifts of consciousness and behavior in European and American culture. . . . Quinones writes with true eloquence and conviction. . . ."--James Finn Cotter, The Hudson Review "Quinones's study of how [the] three Cains were transformed by Romanticism and Modernism into a sometimes positive, sometimes negative, but always necessary archetype of the modern world is literary and cultural analytic history at its very best."--Choice Ricardo J. Quinones is Josephine Olp Weeks Professor of English and Comparative Literatures, and Director of the Gould Center for Humanistic Studies, at Claremont McKenna College in Claremont, California. He is the author of The Renaissance Discovery of Time (Harvard), Dante Alighieri (Twayne), and Mapping Literary Modernism: Time and Development (Princeton). Originally published in 1991. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author : Philip Gooden
Publisher : Quercus
ISBN 13 : 1623653045
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (236 download)
Download or read book The Story of English written by Philip Gooden and published by Quercus. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born as a Germanic tongue with the arrival in Britain of the Anglo-Saxons in the early medieval period, heavily influenced by Norman French from the 11th century, and finally emerging as modern English from the late Middle Ages, the English language has grown to become the linguistic equivalent of a superpower, and is now sometimes described as the world's lingua franca. Worldwide, some 380 million people speak English as a first language and some 600 million as a second language. A staggering one billion people are believed to be learning it. English is the premier international language in communications, science, business, aviation, entertainment, and diplomacy and also on the Internet. It has been one of the official languages of the United Nations since its founding in 1945. It is considered by many good judges to be well on the way to becoming the world's first universal language Author Philip Gooden tells the story of the English language in all its richness and variety. From the intriguing origins and changing definitions of common words such as OK, berserk, curfew, cabal, and pow-wow, to the massive transformations wrought in the vocabulary and structure of the language by Anglo-Saxon and Norman conquest, through to the literary triumphs of Beowulf, The Canterbury Tales and the works of Shakespeare. The Story of English is a fascinating tale of linguistic, social and cultural transformation, and one that is accessibly and authoritatively told by an author in perfect command of his material.
Author : Rosemary Woolf
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 9780907628538
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (285 download)
Download or read book Art and Doctrine written by Rosemary Woolf and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 1986-01-01 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Breckenridge Ellis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
Download or read book The Soul of a Serf written by John Breckenridge Ellis and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Breckinridge Ellis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
Download or read book Fated to Win (the Soul of a Serf) written by John Breckinridge Ellis and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert DiNapoli
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527565319
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)
Download or read book Reading Old English Wisdom written by Robert DiNapoli and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2021-02-01 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book translates and comments on a selection of Old English poems that modern scholars identify as “wisdom” texts. These comprise collections of maxims, philosophical and cosmological speculation, and historical meditation. Composed by monastic authors from the ninth to the eleventh centuries, they mingle orthodox Christian beliefs with pre-Christian sensibilities embedded in the linguistic texture of Anglo-Saxon verse itself. Their preoccupation with how the human psyche responds to the challenges of incarnate life in space and time lends them a wide-ranging interest for students of medieval religion, social history, and psychology. Many are superb poems in their own right, whose quality the translations here serve to communicate to modern readers. The book’s commentaries engage sympathetically with patterns of thought and imagination both remote from us in time and yet strangely familiar.
