Myths And Magic In The Medieval Far North
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Myths And Magic In The Medieval Far North
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Author : Stefan Figenschow
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-01-25
Myths And Magic In The Medieval Far North written by Stefan Figenschow and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-01-25 with categories.
The history of the Far North is tinged by dark fantasies. A remote location, harsh climate, a boundless and often mountainous wasteland, complex ethnic composition, and strange ways of life: all contributed to how the edge of Europe was misunderstood by outsiders. Since ancient times, the North has been considered as a place that exuded evil: it was the end of the world, the abode of monsters and supernatural beings, of magicians and sorcerers. It was Europe's last bastion of recalcitrant paganism. Many weird tales of the North even came from within the region itself, and when newly literate Scandinavians began to re-work their oral traditions into written form after 1100 AD, these myths of their past underlay newer legends and stories serving to support the development to Christian national monarchies. The essays in this volume engage closely with these stories, questioning how and why such traditions developed, and exploring their meaning. Through this approach, the volume also examines how historiographical traditions were shaped by authors pursuing agendas of nation-building and Christianization, at the same time that myths surrounding and originating among the multi-ethnic populations of the Far North continued to dominate the perception of the region and its people, and to define their place in Norwegian medieval history.
Performing Magic In The Pre Modern North
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Author : Jennifer Hemphill
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2024-11-30
Performing Magic In The Pre Modern North written by Jennifer Hemphill and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-11-30 with History categories.
This book addresses the varied performances of magic in medieval and early modern Scandinavia. It provides a comprehensive review of the rapidly expanding field of European magic and specifically discusses performances of magic in the pre-modern north. By employing innovating methodologies and covering a wide temporal range, the book offers a uniquely interdisciplinary approach to the study of magic in the pre-modern North. In addition, the minority-driven contributions, written by an international group of dynamic and diverse scholars, complement one another to highlight the many multicultural realities of the pre-modern North.
Colonial Entanglements And The Medieval Nordic World
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Author : Cordelia Heß
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2024-12-16
Colonial Entanglements And The Medieval Nordic World written by Cordelia Heß and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-12-16 with History categories.
The book investigates the multifaceted entanglements between the many pasts and presents of the Nordic medieval period and colonialism. The edited volume contributes to the untangling of questions concerning how present, recent, and past structures of colonialism affect historiography on the medieval Nordic past. Consisting of thematically diverse chapters, the book brings together a range of approaches related to medieval colonialism in a Nordic context, touching both on medieval and medievalist factors. The editors and contributors understand their project as part of the growing conversation about colonialism and its reverberations in academia, and as a contribution to decolonization efforts. The volume will offer an interdisciplinary approach to oft-neglected aspects of the medieval world through an incorporation of more inclusive methodologies and re-readings of both medieval texts and previous scholarship.
Decolonising Medieval Fennoscandia
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Author : Solveig Marie Wang
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2023-03-20
Decolonising Medieval Fennoscandia written by Solveig Marie Wang and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-03-20 with History categories.
The interdisciplinary study investigates the relationship between Norse and Saami peoples in the medieval period and focuses on the multifaceted portrayal of Saami peoples in medieval texts. The investigative analysis is anchored in postcolonial methodologies and argues for the inherent need to decolonise the medieval source-material as well as recent historiography. This is achieved by presenting the historiographic and political background of research into Norse-Saami relations, before introducing an overview of textual sources discussing Saami peoples from the classical period to the late 1400s, an analysis of the textual motifs associated with the Saami in medieval literature (their relevance and prevalence), geo-political affairs, trading relations, personal relations and Saami presence in the south. By using decolonising tools to read Norse-Saami relations in medieval texts, influenced by archaeological material and postcolonial frameworks, the study challenges lingering colonial assumptions about the role of the Saami in Norse society. The current research episteme is re-adjusted to offer alternative readings of Saami characters and emphasis is put on agency, fluidity and the dynamic realities of the Saami medieval pasts.
The Poetic Edda
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Author : Edward Pettit
language : en
Publisher: Open Book Publishers
Release Date : 2023-03-03
The Poetic Edda written by Edward Pettit and has been published by Open Book Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-03-03 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book is an edition and translation of one of the most important and celebrated sources of Old Norse-Icelandic mythology and heroic legend, namely the medieval poems now known collectively as the Poetic Edda or Elder Edda. Included are thirty-six texts, which are mostly preserved in medieval manuscripts, especially the thirteenth-century Icelandic codex traditionally known as the Codex Regius of the Poetic Edda. The poems cover diverse subjects, including the creation, destruction and rebirth of the world, the dealings of gods such as Óðinn, Þórr and Loki with giants and each other, and the more intimate, personal tragedies of the hero Sigurðr, his wife Guðrún and the valkyrie Brynhildr. Each poem is provided with an introduction, synopsis and suggestions for further reading. The Old Norse texts are furnished with a textual apparatus recording the manuscript readings behind this edition’s emendations, as well as select variant readings. The accompanying translations, informed by the latest scholarship, are concisely annotated to make them as accessible as possible. As the first open-access, single-volume parallel Old Norse edition and English translation of the Poetic Edda, this book will prove a valuable resource for students and scholars of Old Norse literature. It will also interest those researching other fields of medieval literature (especially Old English and Middle High German), and appeal to a wider general audience drawn to the myths and legends of the Viking Age and subsequent centuries.
Witchcraft And Magic In The Nordic Middle Ages
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Author : Stephen A. Mitchell
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 2011-06-06
Witchcraft And Magic In The Nordic Middle Ages written by Stephen A. Mitchell and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-06-06 with History categories.
Stephen A. Mitchell here offers the fullest examination available of witchcraft in late medieval Scandinavia. He focuses on those people believed to be able—and who in some instances thought themselves able—to manipulate the world around them through magical practices, and on the responses to these beliefs in the legal, literary, and popular cultures of the Nordic Middle Ages. His sources range from the Icelandic sagas to cultural monuments much less familiar to the nonspecialist, including legal cases, church art, law codes, ecclesiastical records, and runic spells. Mitchell's starting point is the year 1100, by which time Christianity was well established in elite circles throughout Scandinavia, even as some pre-Christian practices and beliefs persisted in various forms. The book's endpoint coincides with the coming of the Reformation and the onset of the early modern Scandinavian witch hunts. The terrain covered is complex, home to the Germanic Scandinavians as well as their non-Indo-European neighbors, the Sámi and Finns, and it encompasses such diverse areas as the important trade cities of Copenhagen, Bergen, and Stockholm, with their large foreign populations; the rural hinterlands; and the insular outposts of Iceland and Greenland. By examining witches, wizards, and seeresses in literature, lore, and law, as well as surviving charm magic directed toward love, prophecy, health, and weather, Mitchell provides a portrait of both the practitioners of medieval Nordic magic and its performance. With an understanding of mythology as a living system of cultural signs (not just ancient sacred narratives), this study also focuses on such powerful evolving myths as those of "the milk-stealing witch," the diabolical pact, and the witches' journey to Blåkulla. Court cases involving witchcraft, charm magic, and apostasy demonstrate that witchcraft ideologies played a key role in conceptualizing gender and were themselves an important means of exercising social control.
Mythology In The Middle Ages
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Author : Christopher R. Fee
language : en
Publisher: Praeger
Release Date : 2011-01-20
Mythology In The Middle Ages written by Christopher R. Fee and has been published by Praeger this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-01-20 with History categories.
A comparison of male heroes and heroic archetypes based on epics from the Middle Ages, but not touching on Arthurian legends.
Miti E Leggende Nordiche
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Author : Erberto Petoia
language : it
Publisher: Newton Compton Editori
Release Date : 2023-03-17
Miti E Leggende Nordiche written by Erberto Petoia and has been published by Newton Compton Editori this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-03-17 with Fiction categories.
Dal Valhalla a Hel, dalle valchirie ai vichinghi, da Thor a Sigfrido: il suggestivo mondo delle antiche genti del Nord Dèi potenti, eroi solitari, vichinghi, elfi, giganti, norne, valchirie, animali ed esseri fantastici sono protagonisti di intricate e complesse vicende che costituiscono l’affascinante corpus mitologico norreno. Accanto a Odino, Thor, Baldr, appaiono divinità più enigmatiche, ambigue e intriganti, come Loki, vero “motore delle storie” che animano uno scenario mitico e leggendario. Basandosi sulle fonti originali che hanno in parte preservato il patrimonio culturale e religioso dei popoli del Nord, Erberto Petoia ripercorre le tappe e i temi chiave di una mitologia unica e ancora poco conosciuta, che ha ispirato scrittori e artisti di vario genere, da Tolkien a Wagner. Racconti e miti di creazione e distruzione, morte e rinascita, divinità ed eroi, che offrono uno spaccato della spiritualità e dell’immaginario dei popoli del Nord, scevro da qualsiasi mistificazione. Storie di dèi ed eroi, di luoghi fantastici ed esseri soprannaturali: un viaggio alla scoperta di una mitologia ancora poco conosciuta La creazione del mondo Asgardhr: la dimora degli dèi Valhalla: il paradiso degli eroi Loki: il fabbro dei malanni Gli inganni di Odino Il furto del martello di Thor Il canto delle valchirie Il sogno di Baldr Il crepuscolo degli dèi L’anello rubato Il demone vampiro L’oro dei nibelunghi I guardiani dell’altro mondo Erberto Petoia Membro del direttivo scientifico del Centro studi “Alfonso M. di Nola” di Sant’Andrea di Conza (AV) e di Cocullo (AQ), ha collaborato per anni con la cattedra di Storia delle Religioni e Antropologia Culturale presso l’Istituto Universitario Orientale di Napoli e presso l’Università di Roma Tre. Tra le sue pubblicazioni, ricordiamo Vampiri e lupi mannari (tradotto in spagnolo e polacco); Miti e leggende del Medioevo (tradotto in ceco e in serbo); Malocchio e jettatura; Storia e leggenda di Babbo Natale e della Befana (scritto con C. Corvino); Miti e leggende degli zingari; Storia segreta del Medioevo; Storia del Presepe, e la collaborazione al volume collettaneo Antropologia e storia delle religioni. Saggi in onore di Alfonso M. di Nola. Frutto di una lunga ricerca sul campo sono La stella e l’aratro. Tradizioni popolari in Irpinia (in collaborazione con C. Corvino) e Tutto a segno di croce. Storie di donne contadine. Collabora con «Medioevo», «Rivista Abruzzese», «Rocca» e con altre riviste del settore antropologico e storico religioso.
Myths And Legends Of The Medieval World
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Author : Paul Watts
language : en
Publisher: Pen and Sword History
Release Date : 2025-02-05
Myths And Legends Of The Medieval World written by Paul Watts and has been published by Pen and Sword History this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-02-05 with History categories.
No one can deny the enduring power of medieval myths and legends. Tales of King Arthur, Merlin, Robin Hood, Sir Lancelot, magic, dragons, giants, demons, and the Holy Grail are as fascinating for us today as they have ever been. However, the stories we have inherited from our medieval forebears have often been transformed by the embellishments and additions of later generations. In every century since the Middle Ages, stories have been re-imagined, re-told, and sometimes radically changed to suit the audience of the day. This book aims to transport the reader back to the age of the Plantagenets and re-tell these stories as they would have been understood at the time. It explores the stories in detail and looks at what they meant to people living then, how they were told and why they were important. Myths and Legends of the Medieval World provides a detailed account of medieval mythology in its original context. It offers a window into a medieval mind-set in which such things as angels, demons, visions, magic, holy relics, and other supernatural entities were an accepted reality. Explore some of the most puzzling and captivating mysteries of the Middle Ages. What lay behind the legend of the Holy Grail? How did people regard the perilous world of the medieval fairy? How did the medieval world view witchcraft? And what happened during the infamous trial of the Templars? These are all questions that Myths and Legends of the Medieval World sets out to answer.
Cabinet Of Curiosities A The Myth Magic And Measure Of Meteorites
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Author : Martin Beech
language : en
Publisher: World Scientific
Release Date : 2021-03-05
Cabinet Of Curiosities A The Myth Magic And Measure Of Meteorites written by Martin Beech and has been published by World Scientific this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-03-05 with Science categories.
Hurtling through the atmosphere, in a blaze of light and reverberating percussions, the arrival of a meteorite on Earth is a magical, rare, and precious sight. These characteristics have accordingly ensured a long, yet often controversial history. For all this, meteorites are cosmic messengers. They tell us about the entire history of the solar system, their story carrying us from the very earliest moments, when solid material first began to form in the solar nebula. Indeed, meteorites played a key role in the origins of Earth's oceans and the genesis of life. Meteorites additionally tell us about the origin and evolution of the asteroids, and they tell us about impacts upon the Moon as well as the volcanic history of planet Mars. Much is known about the structure and chemistry of meteorites, but for all this, they still harbor many scientific mysteries that have yet to be resolved.