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The popular image of the Viking as a horn-helmeted berserker
plying the ocean in a dragon-headed long boat is firmly fixed in
history. Imagining Viking "conquerors" as much more numerous,
technologically superior, and somehow inherently more warlike than
their neighbors has overshadowed the cooperation and cultural
exchange which characterized much of the Viking Age. In actuality,
the Norse explorers and traders were players in a complex exchange
of technology, customs, and religious beliefs between the ancient
pre-Christian societies of northern Europe and the
Christian-dominated nations surrounding the Mediterranean. DuBois
examines Anglo-Saxon, Celtic, and Mediterranean traditions to
locate significant Nordic parallels in conceptions of supernatural
beings, cults of the dead, beliefs in ghosts, and magical
practices. These beliefs were actively held alongside Christianity
for many years, and were finally incorporated into the vernacular
religious practice. The Icelandic sagas reflect this complex
process in their inclusion of both Christian and pagan details.
This work differs from previous examinations in its inclusion of
the Christian thirteenth century as part of the evolution of Nordic
religions from localized pagan cults to adherents of a larger Roman
faith.Thomas DuBois unravels for the first time the history of the
Nordic religions in the Viking Age and shows how these ancient
beliefs and their oral traditions incorporated both a myriad of
local beliefs and aspects of foreign religions, most notably
Christianity.
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Teaching World Epics
Angelica Duran, Jo Ann Cavallo; Atefeh Akbari Shahmirzadi, Brenda E.F. Beck, David T. Bialock, …
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R1,196
Discovery Miles 11 960
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Essays for teaching ancient and recent epic narratives from around
the world. Cultures across the globe have embraced epics: stories
of memorable deeds by heroic characters whose actions have
significant consequences for their lives and their communities.
Incorporating narrative elements also found in sacred history,
chronicle, saga, legend, romance, myth, folklore, and the novel,
epics throughout history have both animated the imagination and
encouraged reflection on what it means to be human. Teaching World
Epics addresses ancient and more recent epic works from Africa,
Europe, Mesoamerica, and East, Central, and South Asia that are
available in English translations. Useful to instructors of
literature, peace and conflict studies, transnational studies,
women's studies, and religious studies, the essays in this volume
focus on epics in sociopolitical and cultural contexts, on the
adaptation and reception of epic works, and on themes that are
especially relevant today, such as gender dynamics and politics,
national identity, colonialism and imperialism, violence, and war.
This volume includes discussion of Ludovico Ariosto's Orlando
Furioso, Giulia Bigolina's Urania, The Book of Dede Korkut, Luis
Vaz de Camões's Os Lusiadas, David of Sassoun, The Epic of Askia
Mohammed, The Epic of Gilgamesh, the epic of Sun-Jata, Alonso de
Ercilla y Zúñiga's La Araucana, Homer's Iliad and Odyssey,
Kalevala, Kebra Nagast, Kudrun, The Legend of Poṉṉivaḷa Nadu,
the Mahabharata, Manas, John Milton's Paradise Lost, Mwindo, the
Nibelungenlied, Poema de mio Cid, Popol Wuj, the Ramayana, the
Shahnameh, Sirat Bani Hilal, Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene,
Statius's Thebaid, The Tale of the Heike, Three Kingdoms, Gaspar
Pérez de Villagrá's Historia de la Nueva México, and Virgil's
Aeneid.
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Teaching World Epics
Angelica Duran, Jo Ann Cavallo; Atefeh Akbari Shahmirzadi, Brenda E.F. Beck, David T. Bialock, …
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R2,936
Discovery Miles 29 360
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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Essays for teaching ancient and recent epic narratives from around
the world. Cultures across the globe have embraced epics: stories
of memorable deeds by heroic characters whose actions have
significant consequences for their lives and their communities.
Incorporating narrative elements also found in sacred history,
chronicle, saga, legend, romance, myth, folklore, and the novel,
epics throughout history have both animated the imagination and
encouraged reflection on what it means to be human. Teaching World
Epics addresses ancient and more recent epic works from Africa,
Europe, Mesoamerica, and East, Central, and South Asia that are
available in English translations. Useful to instructors of
literature, peace and conflict studies, transnational studies,
women's studies, and religious studies, the essays in this volume
focus on epics in sociopolitical and cultural contexts, on the
adaptation and reception of epic works, and on themes that are
especially relevant today, such as gender dynamics and politics,
national identity, colonialism and imperialism, violence, and war.
This volume includes discussion of Ludovico Ariosto's Orlando
Furioso, Giulia Bigolina's Urania, The Book of Dede Korkut, Luis
Vaz de Camões's Os Lusiadas, David of Sassoun, The Epic of Askia
Mohammed, The Epic of Gilgamesh, the epic of Sun-Jata, Alonso de
Ercilla y Zúñiga's La Araucana, Homer's Iliad and Odyssey,
Kalevala, Kebra Nagast, Kudrun, The Legend of Poṉṉivaḷa Nadu,
the Mahabharata, Manas, John Milton's Paradise Lost, Mwindo, the
Nibelungenlied, Poema de mio Cid, Popol Wuj, the Ramayana, the
Shahnameh, Sirat Bani Hilal, Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene,
Statius's Thebaid, The Tale of the Heike, Three Kingdoms, Gaspar
Pérez de Villagrá's Historia de la Nueva México, and Virgil's
Aeneid.
With original translations of primary texts and articles by leading
researchers in the field, Sanctity in the North gives an
introduction to the literary production associated with the cult of
the saints in medieval Scandinavia. For more than five hundred
years, Nordic clerics and laity venerated a host of saints through
liturgical celebrations, written manuscripts, visual arts, and oral
traditions. Textual evidence of this widespread and important
aspect of medieval spirituality abounds. Written biographies (or
vitae), compendia of witnessed miracles, mass propers, homilies,
sagas and chronicles, dramatic scripts, hymns, and ballads are
among the region's surviving medieval manuscripts and early
published books. Sanctity in the North features English
translations of texts from Latin or vernacular Nordic languages, in
many cases for the first time. The accompanying essays concerning
the texts, saints, cults, and history of the period complement the
translations and reflect the contributors' own disciplinary
groundings in folklore, philology, medieval, and religious studies.
Until recently, few villagers of rural North China ventured far
from their homes. Their intensely local view of the world included
knowledge of the immanent sacred realm, which derived from stories
of divine revelations, cures, and miracles that circulated among
neighboring villages. These stories gave direction to private
devotion and served as a source of expert information on who the
powerful deities were and what role they played in the human world.
The structure of local society also shaped public devotion, as
different groups expressed their economic and social concerns in
organized worship. While some of these groups remained structurally
intact in the face of historical change, others have changed
dramatically, resulting in new patterns of religious organization
and practice. The Sacred Village introduces local religious life in
Cang County, Hebei Province, as a lens through which to view the
larger issue of how rural Chinese perspectives and behaviors were
shaped by the sweeping social, political, and demographic changes
of the last two centuries. Thomas DuBois combines new archival
sources in Chinese and Japanese with his own fieldwork to produce a
work that is compelling and intimate in detail. This dual approach
also allows him to address the integration of external networks
into local society and religious mentality and posit local society
as a particular sphere in which the two are negotiated and
transformed.
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