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Languages : en
Pages : 1344
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Bookseller and the Stationery Trades' Journal
Author: The Power of Words
Author: James KapalóPublisher: Central European University Press
ISBN: 6155225486
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
n medieval and early modern Europe, the use of charms was a living practice in all strata of society. The essays in this latest CEU Press publication explore the rich textual tradition of archives, monasteries, and literary sources. The author also discusses texts amassed in folklore archives and ones that are still accessible through field work in many rural areas of Europe.
Highlanders
Author: James MacKillopPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476693129
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
Rebellion was recurrent in the Highlands because the Gaels (Scoti) were an often-oppressed indigenous minority in the nation, Scotland, to which they gave their name. They spoke a language, Gaelic, few outsiders would learn, and had their own family and social system, the clans. Warfare was bloody, culminating in the catastrophe of Culloden Moor during the doomed quest to restore the Stuart kingship to all of Britain. Economic hardship, including the near-genocidal Clearances, in which tenant farmers were replaced with sheep, drove the Gaels from the glens and islands, so that most today live in the diaspora, including millions in North America. Although the Gaels lack a single genetic identity, they clearly draw from distinct roots in the Irish, Norse and Picts. Despite their hardship, the Gaels are also presented in romantic portrayals by the artistic elite of other nations. This book offers ways in which the reader might find roots and ancestry in unfamiliar terrain. Chapters discuss the landscape and language of the Highlanders, the rise of clans, feuds and invasions, and eventual emigration.
Handbook of the history of philosophy, tr. and annotated by J. H. Stirling. Suppl. notes [p. 395-486 only].
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Author: Friedrich Carl Albert SchweglerPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
Handbook of the History of Philosophy
Author: Albert SchweglerPublisher:
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Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 438
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Handbook of the History of Philosophy ... Translated and annotated by J. H. Stirling, etc
Author: Friedrich Carl Albert SCHWEGLERPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 434
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The Bookseller
Author: Scottish Fairy Belief
Author: Lizanne HendersonPublisher: Birlinn Ltd
ISBN: 1788854330
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
The authorities told folk what they ought to believe, but what did they really believe? Throughout Scottish history, people have believed in fairies. They were a part of everyday life, as real as the sunrise, and as incontrovertible as the existence of God. While fairy belief was only a fragment of a much larger complex, the implications of studying this belief tradition are potentially vast, revealing some understanding of the worldview of the people of past centuries. This book, the first modern study of the subject, examines the history and nature of fairy belief, the major themes and motifs, the demonising attack upon the tradition, and the attempted reinstatement of the reality of fairies at the end of the seventeenth century, as well as their place in ballads and in Scottish literature.
Willis's Price Current. A Catalogue of Superior Second-hand Books, Ancient and Modern ... No. CLIV[-CLXXXVII.]
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Author: Willis and SotheranSale-catalogues of Second-hand Books on Sale by Henry Sotheran & Co
Author: Sotheran, Henry and CoPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 812
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