Saltburn meets The Secret History in this gripping tale of alchemy and academia IAN RANKINFive friends. One deadly obsession.The salt-scented quadrangles of St Andrews University greet misfit first-year student Finn Nethercott with indifference. Th...Daugiau...
From bestselling author, Sally Coulthard,comes this charmingly illustrated guide to our favourite feathered friends and folklore that surround their lives. Even today, birds are hugely symbolic. From songbirds to seagulls, nightingales to morning lar...Daugiau...
Taking in a range of traditions from ancient Britain to the present day, a revealing look at the bristly underside of British folkloric culture. Rough Music explores transgression and shame in British folklore and customs. It takes in a wide array of...Daugiau...
Serija: RaceB4Race: Critical Race Studies of the Premodern
(Išleidimo metai: 01-Apr-2025, PDF+DRM, Leidėjas: University of Pennsylvania Press, ISBN-13: 9781512827415)
Reveals the role of Arthuriana in the racial logics of medieval Europe through an analysis of the construction of chivalric whitenessThe Other Faces of Arthur reveals the role of Arthuriana in the racial logics of medieval Europe through an analysis...Daugiau...
Serija: RaceB4Race: Critical Race Studies of the Premodern
(Išleidimo metai: 01-Apr-2025, EPUB+DRM, Leidėjas: University of Pennsylvania Press, ISBN-13: 9781512827415)
Reveals the role of Arthuriana in the racial logics of medieval Europe through an analysis of the construction of chivalric whitenessThe Other Faces of Arthur reveals the role of Arthuriana in the racial logics of medieval Europe through an analysis...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 01-Apr-2025, EPUB+DRM, Leidėjas: Verso Books, ISBN-13: 9781839766992)
Mythocracy examines the narrative mechanisms that script our lives through the stories we tell one another. Digging beneath common anxieties about fake news, Yves Citton looks at the attention economy, which organises our political perceptions around...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 15-Mar-2025, PDF+DRM, Leidėjas: Cornell University Press, ISBN-13: 9781501779725)
Bad Christians and Hanging Toads tells riveting stories of witchcraft in everyday life in early modern Navarra. Belief in witchcraft not only emerged in moments of mass panic but was woven into the fabric of village life. Some villagers believed witc...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 15-Mar-2025, EPUB+DRM, Leidėjas: Cornell University Press, ISBN-13: 9781501779152)
The Kitchen God and His Wives is a modern folk epic on the origin of the Stove God, widely venerated across China. In this tale, the Stove God (or Kitchen God) begins as a mortal man who owes his wealth and success to his loyal wife, the long-sufferi...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 15-Mar-2025, PDF+DRM, Leidėjas: Cornell University Press, ISBN-13: 9781501779145)
The Kitchen God and His Wives is a modern folk epic on the origin of the Stove God, widely venerated across China. In this tale, the Stove God (or Kitchen God) begins as a mortal man who owes his wealth and success to his loyal wife, the long-sufferi...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 15-Mar-2025, EPUB+DRM, Leidėjas: Cornell University Press, ISBN-13: 9781501779732)
Bad Christians and Hanging Toads tells riveting stories of witchcraft in everyday life in early modern Navarra. Belief in witchcraft not only emerged in moments of mass panic but was woven into the fabric of village life. Some villagers believed witc...Daugiau...
Audun Kjus, Clķona O'Carroll, Jakob Löfgren, Simon Poole, Ida Tolgensbakk
Serija: Ritual, Festival, and Celebration
(Išleidimo metai: 21-Feb-2025, PDF+DRM, Leidėjas: University Press of Colorado, ISBN-13: 9781646426751)
The junctions between play and ritual are many and complex. Play is for fun and joy, but it also demands a total commitment and serious respect for rules. Rituals involve nearly endless varieties of social arrangements and can truly transform people,...Daugiau...
Ā«Cada capiĢtulo de este libro es una bestia peligrosa, enorme, de dientes afilados. Sirenas y otros monstruos es ya un claĢsico.Ā»Ā Carmen MariĢa MachadoĀ«Un ensayo cultural que le da la vuelta a los mitos e ilumina los poderes monstruosos que au...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 18-Feb-2025, EPUB+DRM, Leidėjas: Quarto Publishing PLC, ISBN-13: 9780711293885)
This enchanting guide connects you to the wisdom of Witches past, to expand and enrich your Witchcraft practice.The myths, legends, and superstitions of the past offer a window into how common people made sense of their world. Because they were exclu...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 10-Feb-2025, PDF+DRM, Leidėjas: University Press of Mississippi, ISBN-13: 9781496854889)
Between 1937 and 1940 fieldworkers in the Works Progress Administrations Federal Writers Project interviewed around 3,500 formerly enslaved people in North America, resulting in roughly 20,000 pages of still unedited and inadequately indexed typesc...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 10-Feb-2025, EPUB+DRM, Leidėjas: University Press of Mississippi, ISBN-13: 9781496854865)
Between 1937 and 1940 fieldworkers in the Works Progress Administrations Federal Writers Project interviewed around 3,500 formerly enslaved people in North America, resulting in roughly 20,000 pages of still unedited and inadequately indexed typesc...Daugiau...
This new, in-depth life of Henry McCarty, alias Billy Bonney, alias Billy the Kid, offers fresh perspectives, not only on the Lincoln County War and his boyhood in Silver City, New Mexico, but also on his Irish mothers origins and immigration to...Daugiau...
This new, in-depth life of Henry McCarty, alias Billy Bonney, alias Billy the Kid, offers fresh perspectives, not only on the Lincoln County War and his boyhood in Silver City, New Mexico, but also on his Irish mothers origins and immigration to...Daugiau...
The Ramayana attributed to the ancient sage Valmiki is a respected epic of Indian literature, and Book three, known as Aranyakanda, continues the saga of Lord Ramas exile. Translated into English via Ralph T. H. Griffith, this book in addition explo...Daugiau...
