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Charms, charmers and charming in Ireland : from the medieval to the modern /
This is the first book to examine the full range of the evidence for Irish charms, from medieval to modern times. As Ireland has one of the oldest literatures in Europe, and also one of the most comprehensively recorded folklore traditions, it affords a uniquely rich body of evidence for such an inv...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Other Authors: | , , , |
| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Cardiff, Wales :
National Book Network International (NBNi) : University of Wales Press,
2019.
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| Series: | New approaches to Celtic religion and mythology.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- List of Illustrations and MapsList of TablesAbbreviationsNotes on ContributorsIntroduction1. Jacqueline Borsje - European and American Scholarship and the Study of Medieval Irish 'Magic' (1846-1960)2. John Carey - Charms in Medieval Irish Tales: Tradition, Adaptation, Invention3. Cathinka Dahl Hambro - The Religious Significance of the sén 7 soladh in Altram Tige Dá Medar4. Ilona Tuomi - Nine Hundred Years of the Caput Christi Charm: Scribal Strategies and Textual Transmission5. Ksenia Kudenko - In Defence of the Irish Saints who 'Loved Malediction'6. Barbara Hillers - Towards a Typology of European Narrative Charms in Irish Oral Tradition7. Nicholas M. Wolf - Nineteenth-Century Charm Texts: Scope and Context8. Joseph J. Flahive - A Toothache Charm in a Manuscript Fragment of John Lysaght 9. Bairbre Ní Fhloinn - 'The Cure for Bleeding': Charms and Other Cures for Blood-stopping in Irish Tradition10. Deirdre Nuttall - 'Cahill's Blood': Mr Cahill Makes the Cure11. Denis McArdle - Aisling na Maighdine: The Virgin's Dream in Irish Oral Tradition12. Gearóid Ó Crualaoich - An Leabhar Eoin: The 'In Principio' Charm in Oral and Literary Tradition13. Shane Lehane - The Cailleach and the Cosmic Hare14. Stiofán Ó Cadhla - 'We'll talk now about charms': Knowledge as Folklore and Folklore as KnowledgeBibliographyIndex