Read Books Online and Download eBooks, EPub, PDF, Mobi, Kindle, Text Full Free.
Download Precious Stones In Old English Literature full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online Precious Stones In Old English Literature ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!
Author : Robert Max Garrett
Publisher : Рипол Классик
ISBN 13 : 5875967331
Total Pages : 101 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (759 download)
Download or read book Precious stones in old English literature written by Robert Max Garrett and published by Рипол Классик. This book was released on 1909 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : George Watson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521200042
Total Pages : 1322 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 ( download)
Download or read book The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature: Volume 1, 600-1660 written by George Watson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1974-08-29 with total page 1322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than fifty specialists have contributed to this new edition of volume 1 of The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. The design of the original work has established itself so firmly as a workable solution to the immense problems of analysis, articulation and coordination that it has been retained in all its essentials for the new edition. The task of the new contributors has been to revise and integrate the lists of 1940 and 1957, to add materials of the following decade, to correct and refine the bibliographical details already available, and to re-shape the whole according to a new series of conventions devised to give greater clarity and consistency to the entries.
Author : Stephanie Hollis
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9780859913430
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (134 download)
Download or read book Old English Prose of Secular Learning written by Stephanie Hollis and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 1992 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First title in a new series of annotated bibliographies -- includes prose proverbs, romances, computistical texts, Enchiridion, magico- medical literature, etc.
Author : George Watson
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1296 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature written by George Watson and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1974 with total page 1296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert D. Fulk
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118441125
Total Pages : 506 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (184 download)
Download or read book A History of Old English Literature written by Robert D. Fulk and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-03-06 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A HISTORY OF OLD ENGLISH LITERATURE A History of Old English Literature has been significantly revised to provide an unequivocal response to the renewed historicism in medieval studies. Focusing on the production and reception of Old English texts and on their relation to Anglo-Saxon history and culture, this new edition covers an exceptionally broad array of genres. These range from riddles and cryptograms to allegory, liturgical texts, and romance, as well as lyric poetry and heroic legend. The authors also integrate discussions of Anglo-Latin texts, crucial to understanding the development of Old English literature. This second edition incorporates extensive reference to scholarship that has evolved over the past decade, with new chapters on both Anglo-Saxon manuscripts and on incidental and marginal texts. There is expanded treatment throughout, including increased coverage of legal texts and scientific and scholastic texts. The book concludes with a retrospective outline of the reception of Anglo-Saxon literature and culture in subsequent periods.
Author : Claude Lecouteux
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1620552809
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (25 download)
Download or read book The High Magic of Talismans and Amulets written by Claude Lecouteux and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive study of the use of talismans and amulets in the Western Mystery Tradition • Provides an in-depth look at the medieval and Renaissance use of amulets and talismans, including the work of Agrippa, Albertus Magnus, and Athanasius Kircher • Provides a full summary of the magical knowledge required to make an amulet or talisman, including the invocations required to activate their powers • Reviews different kinds of amulets and talismans, from ancient jewelry and magical objects to the modern rabbit’s foot or lucky horseshoe The use of talismans and amulets stretches back nearly to the dawn of man, from everyday items magically prepared, such as horns or coins, to intricate and beautiful jewelry imbued with protective powers. Drawing on his private collection of medieval manuscripts as well as his privileged access to the rare book archives of major European universities, Claude Lecouteux provides a comprehensive history of the use of talismans and amulets for protection, healing, and divine influence. He explores their use in the Western Mystery Tradition as well as Eastern and Middle Eastern beliefs about these magical objects and their incorporation--despite Church anathema--into the Christian tradition of Medieval Europe. Reviewing many different kinds of amulets and talismans used throughout the ages, such as a rabbit’s foot, horseshoe, gris-gris bag, or an inscribed parchment charged through ritual, he details the principles and symbology behind each object and shows that their use is still as widespread today as any time in the past. Lecouteux explains the high magic behind the hermetic art of crafting amulets and talismans: the chains of sympathy, astrological geography, and the invocations required to activate their powers. He explores the work of adepts such as Agrippa, Albertus Magnus, and Athanasius Kircher, including an in-depth look at Kircher’s work on planetary seals in his Oedipus Aegyptiacus. Illustrated throughout with period art depicting magical symbols, seals, and a wide array of talismans and amulets, this comprehensive study provides a practical guide to the historical development and step-by-step creation of magical objects.
Author : Stanley B. Greenfield
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814732623
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)
Download or read book A New Critical History of Old English Literature written by Stanley B. Greenfield and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1996-05-01 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anglo-Saxon prose and poetry is, without question, the major literary achievement of the early Middle Ages (c. 700-1100). In no other vernacular language does such a vast store of verbal treasures exist for so extended a period of time. For twenty years the definitive guide to that literature has been Stanley B. Greenfield's 1965 Critical History of Old English Literature. Now this classic has been extensively revised and updated to make it more valuable than ever to both the student and scholar.
Author : C.P. Biggam
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004489487
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)
Download or read book Blue in Old English written by C.P. Biggam and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-06-08 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blue in Old English represents the first thorough investigation of an area of the colour semantics of Old English, and the methodology developed for this study is believed to be appropriate for researching the colour semantics of any language which survives only in recorded texts. By means of a collection of in-depth word-studies, which suggest new interpretations of many well-known passages, an understanding of how blueness was described in Old English is developed. The approach is interdisciplinary, using evidence from subjects such as botany, manuscript illustration, etymology, early technologies, and others. The conclusion contradicts certain previously held views on Old English colour, and presents a hitherto obscured sociolinguistic picture of differing language use among various groups of Old English speakers.
Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)
Download or read book Early English Text Society written by and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 2134 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Publishers' Circular and Booksellers' Record of British and Foreign Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 2134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alison Chapman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135132313
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (351 download)
Download or read book Patrons and Patron Saints in Early Modern English Literature written by Alison Chapman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-17 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book visits the fact that, in the pre-modern world, saints and lords served structurally similar roles, acting as patrons to those beneath them on the spiritual or social ladder with the word "patron" used to designate both types of elite sponsor. Chapman argues that this elision of patron saints and patron lords remained a distinctive feature of the early modern English imagination and that it is central to some of the key works of literature in the period. Writers like Jonson, Shakespeare, Spenser, Drayton, Donne and, Milton all use medieval patron saints in order to represent and to challenge early modern ideas of patronage -- not just patronage in the narrow sense of the immediate economic relations obtaining between client and sponsor, but also patronage as a society-wide system of obligation and reward that itself crystallized a whole culture’s assumptions about order and degree. The works studied in this book -- ranging from Shakespeare’s 2 Henry VI, written early in the 1590s, to Milton’s Masque Performed at Ludlow Castle, written in 1634 -- are patronage works, either aimed at a specific patron or showing a keen awareness of the larger patronage system. This volume challenges the idea that the early modern world had shrugged off its own medieval past, instead arguing that Protestant writers in the period were actively using the medieval Catholic ideal of the saint as a means to represent contemporary systems of hierarchy and dependence. Saints had been the ideal -- and idealized -- patrons of the medieval world and remained so for early modern English recusants. As a result, their legends and iconographies provided early modern Protestant authors with the perfect tool for thinking about the urgent and complex question of who owed allegiance to whom in a rapidly changing world.
Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 720 pages
Book Rating : 4.U/5 (183 download)
Download or read book The Dublin University Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 912 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Bay View Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 912 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Juliette Vuille
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 184384589X
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (438 download)
Download or read book Holy Harlots in Medieval English Religious Literature written by Juliette Vuille and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2021-04-16 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First comprehensive investigation of the major significance of female sinners turned saints in medieval literature.
Author : Valerie Irene Jane Flint
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691210020
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)
Download or read book The Rise of Magic in Early Medieval Europe written by Valerie Irene Jane Flint and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-31 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "There are forces better recognized as belonging to human society than repressed or left to waste away or growl about upon its fringes." So writes Valerie Flint in this powerful work on magic in early medieval Europe. Flint shows how many of the more discerning leaders of the early medieval Church decided to promote non-Christian practices originally condemned as magical--rather than repressing them or leaving them to waste away or "growl." These wise leaders actively and enthusiastically incorporated specific kinds of "magic" into the dominant culture not only to appease the contemporary non-Christian opposition but also to enhance Christianity itself.
Author : Paul E. Szarmach
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1351666371
Total Pages : 949 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (516 download)
Download or read book Routledge Revivals: Medieval England (1998) written by Paul E. Szarmach and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 949 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1998, this valuable reference work offers concise, expert answers to questions on all aspects of life and culture in Medieval England, including art, architecture, law, literature, kings, women, music, commerce, technology, warfare and religion. This wide-ranging text encompasses English social, cultural, and political life from the Anglo-Saxon invasions in the fifth century to the turn of the sixteenth century, as well as its ties to the Celtic world of Wales, Scotland and Ireland, the French and Anglo-Norman world of the Continent and the Viking and Scandinavian world of the North Sea. A range of topics are discussed from Sedulius to Skelton, from Wulfstan of York to Reginald Pecock, from Pictish art to Gothic sculpture and from the Vikings to the Black Death. A subject and name index makes it easy to locate information and bibliographies direct users to essential primary and secondary sources as well as key scholarship. With more than 700 entries by over 300 international scholars, this work provides a detailed portrait of the English Middle Ages and will be of great value to students and scholars studying Medieval history in England and Europe, as well as non-specialist readers.
Author : Carole Patricia Biggam
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Grey in Old English written by Carole Patricia Biggam and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study comprises a colour semantic investigation into the greyness of Old English, forming a companion volume to the author's Blue in Old English (1997). The research is conducted by means of word-studies of graeg, har, hsau, and wylfen, and their context. The investigation makes use of etymology, literary studies, sociolinguistics, zoology, botany and ornithology, giving Anglo-Saxon' subtle use of grey to inspire a sense of the richly varied Anglo-Saxon world of frost, iron, ancient trees, stalking wolves, and hoary-headed saints and warriors.
