The Visual World of the Hungarian Angevin Legendary
Title | The Visual World of the Hungarian Angevin Legendary PDF eBook |
Author | Béla Zsolt Szakács |
Publisher | Central European University Press |
Pages | 350 |
Release | 2016-05-15 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 6155225001 |
Dispersed in two continents, four countries and six collections; many of its pages were cropped, cut into four, or lost forever; its history, origin, commissioner and audience are obscure; still, in its fragmented state it presents fifty-eight legends in abundant series of images, on folios fully covered by miniatures, richly gilded, using only one side of the fine parchment; a luxurious codex worthy of a ruler; a unique iconographic treasury of medieval legends; one of the most significant manuscripts of the medieval Hungarian Kingdom – these are all what we call the Hungarian Angevin Legendary.
Lord or Legend?
Title | Lord or Legend? PDF eBook |
Author | Gregory A. Boyd |
Publisher | Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Pages | 184 |
Release | 2010-10-01 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1725228998 |
DID JESUS EVER REALLY EXIST--AND IF SO, WHO WAS HE?
Meeting the Other in Norse Myth and Legend
Title | Meeting the Other in Norse Myth and Legend PDF eBook |
Author | John McKinnell |
Publisher | DS Brewer |
Pages | 308 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9781843840428 |
Close examination of the significant theme of other-worldly encounters in Norse myth and legend, including giantesses, monsters and the Dead. A particular, recurring feature of Old Norse myths and legends is an encounter between creatures of This World [gods and human beings] and those of the Other [giants, giantesses, dwarves, prophetesses, monsters and the dead]. Concentrating on cross-gendered encounters, this book analyses these meetings, and the different motifs and situations they encompass, from the consultation of a prophetess by a king or god, to sexual liaisons and return from the dead. It considers the evidence for their pre-Christian origins, discusses how far individual poets and prose writers were free to modify them, and suggests that they survived in medieval Christian society because [like folk-tale] they provide a non-dogmatic way of resolving social and psychological problems connected with growing up, succession from one generation to the next, sexual relationships and bereavement.
The Legend of Charlemagne in the Middle Ages
Title | The Legend of Charlemagne in the Middle Ages PDF eBook |
Author | M. Gabriele |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 188 |
Release | 2008-09-29 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0230615449 |
These essays take advantage of a new, exciting trend towards interdisciplinary research on the Charlemagne legend. Written by historians, art historians, and literary scholars, these essays focus on the multifaceted ways the Charlemagne legend functioned in the Middle Ages and how central the shared (if nonetheless fictional) memory of the great Frankish ruler was to the medieval West. A gateway to new research on memory, crusading, apocalyptic expectation, Carolingian historiography, and medieval kingship, the contributors demonstrate the fuzzy line separating "fact" and "fiction" in the Middle Ages.
Essays on Theatre and Change
Title | Essays on Theatre and Change PDF eBook |
Author | Kélina Gotman |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 372 |
Release | 2017-10-30 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 1351598023 |
If theatre is a way of seeing, an event onstage but also a fleeting series of moments; not a copy or double but more vitally metamorphosis, transformation, and change, how might we speak to – and of – it? How do we envision and frame a fluid reality that moves faster than we can write? Arranged over two parts, 'Figurations' and 'Translations', Essays on Theatre and Change reflects on the animal, history, doubling, translation, and the performative potential of writing itself. Each fictocritical essay weaves between voices, genres and contexts to consider what theatre might be, offering a 'partial object' rather than a complete theory. Leaving the page radically open to its reader, Essays on Theatre and Change is a dazzling, multi-lensed account of what it is to think and write on theatre.
The Cumulative Book Index
Title | The Cumulative Book Index PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 2266 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | American literature |
ISBN |
Cinema Arthuriana
Title | Cinema Arthuriana PDF eBook |
Author | Kevin J. Harty |
Publisher | McFarland |
Pages | 319 |
Release | 2015-05-07 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 147660844X |
The legends of King Arthur have not only endured for centuries, but also flourished in constant retellings and new stories built around the central themes. With the coming of motion pictures, Arthur was destined to hit the screen. This edition of Cinema Arthuriana, revised in 2002, presents 20 essays on the topic of the recurring presence of the legend in film and television from 1904 to 2001. They cover such films as Excalibur (1981) and Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975), television productions such as The Mists of Avalon (2001), and French and German films about the quest for the Holy Grail and the other adventures of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table.