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Airy Nothings : Imagining the Otherworld of Faerie from the Middle Ages to the Age of Reason : Essays in Honour of Alasdair A. MacDonald.
"Ever since the Middle Ages the Otherworld of Faerie has been the object of serious intellectual scrutiny. What science in the end dismissed as airy nothings was given a local habitation and a name by art. This book presents some of the main chapters from the history and tradition of otherworld...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden :
Brill,
2014.
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| Colección: | Brill's studies in intellectual history.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction; Alasdair MacDonald: In Praise of Versatility; Notes on Contributors; List of Illustrations; Marlowe's Ghost: The Second Report of Doctor John Faustus; Rhetorical Play in Cornelius Agrippa: The Declamation on the Nobility and Preeminence of the Female Sex; Ein Schwert in Frauenhand: Notizen zu einigen volkssprachigen Texten des Mittelalters; Female Voices from the Otherworld: The Role of Women in the Early Irish Echtrai; Morgan le Fay and the Fairy Mound in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight; Cresseid 'Beyond the Pale'
- Die Widersacher des allmächtigen Gottes: Teufel und Dämonen in den Concordantiae Caritatis des Ulrich von LilienfeldBoundaries of the Fairy Realm in Scotland; 'Bull-Begger': An Early Modern Scare-Word; Shaggie Thighs and Aery Formes: Satyres and Faeries in Ben Jonson's Oberon; Paracelsian Spirits in Pope's Rape of the Lock; Index.