Author: Margaret Alice MurrayPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 47
Book Description
The Osireion at Abydos, by Margaret A. Murray...
Author: Margaret Alice MurrayPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 47
Book Description
The Osireion at Abydos
Author: Margaret Alice MurrayPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Abydos (Egypt : Extinct city)
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
The Life of Margaret Alice Murray
Author: Kathleen L. SheppardPublisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 0739174185
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
The Life of Margaret Alice Murray: A Woman’s Work in Archaeology is the first book-length biography of Margaret Alice Murray (1863–1963), one of the first women to practice archeology. Despite Murray’s numerous professional successes, her career has received little attention because she has been overshadowed by her mentor, Sir Flinders Petrie. This oversight has obscured the significance of her career including her fieldwork, the students she trained, her administration of the pioneering Egyptology Department at University College London (UCL), and her published works. Rather than focusing on Murray’s involvement in Petrie’s archaeological program, Kathleen L. Sheppard treats Murray as a practicing scientist with theories, ideas, and accomplishments of her own. This book analyzes the life and career of Margaret Alice Murray as a teacher, excavator, scholar, and popularizer of Egyptology, archaeology, anthropology, linguistics, and more. Sheppard also analyzes areas outside of Murray’s archaeology career, including her involvement in the suffrage movement, her work in folklore and witchcraft studies, and her life after her official retirement from UCL.
The Osireion at Abydos; Volume 9
Author: Margaret Alice MurrayPublisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781016011792
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
“The” Osireion at Abydos
Author: Margaret Alice MurrayPublisher:
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Category : Abydos (Egypt : Extinct city)
Languages : en
Pages : 47
Book Description
The God of the Witches
Author: Margaret Alice MurrayPublisher:
ISBN: 9780195012705
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
This celebrated study of witchcraft in Europe traces the worship of the pre-Christian and prehistoric Horned God from paleolithic times to the medieval period. Murray, the first to turn a scholarly eye on the mysteries of witchcraft, enables us to see its existence in the Middle Ages not as an isolated and terrifying phenomenon, but as the survival of a religion nearly as old as humankind itself, whose devotees held passionately to a view of life threatened by an alien creed. The findings she sets forth, once thought of as provocative and implausible, are now regarded as irrefutable by folklorists and scholars in related fields. Exploring the rites and ceremonies associated with witchcraft, Murray establishes the concept of the "dying god"--the priest-king who was ritually killed to ensure the country and its people a continuity of fertility and strength. In this light, she considers such figures as Thomas a Becket, Joan of Arc, and Gilles de Rais as spiritual leaders whose deaths were ritually imposed. Truly a classic work of anthropology, and written in a clear, accessible style that anyone can enjoy, The God of the Witches forces us to reevaluate our thoughts about an ancient and vital religion.
The Osireion at Abydos
Author: The Osireion at Abydos
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Category : Abydos (Egypt : Extinct city)
Languages : en
Pages :
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The Golden Bough
Author: James George FrazerPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108047351
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 341
Book Description
The greatly revised and enlarged twelve-volume third edition (1911-15) of Sir James Frazer's controversial work on classical religion.
Wonderful Things: A History of Egyptology, Volume 3
Author: Jason ThompsonPublisher: American University in Cairo Press
ISBN: 1617978647
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 661
Book Description
The discovery of ancient Egypt and the development of Egyptology are momentous events in intellectual and cultural history. The history of Egyptology is the story of the people, famous and obscure, who constructed the picture of ancient Egypt that we have today, recovered the Egyptian past while inventing it anew, and made a lost civilization comprehensible to generations of enchanted readers and viewers thousands of years later. This, the third of a three-volume history of Egyptology, follows the progress of the discipline from the trauma of the First World War, through the vicissitudes of the twentieth century, and into Egyptology's new horizons at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Wonderful Things affirms that the history of ancient Egypt has proved continually fascinating, but it also demonstrates that the history of Egyptology is no less so. Only by understanding how Egyptology has developed can we truly understand the Egyptian past.