1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910437645403321

Autore

Bryan Eric Shane

Titolo

Icelandic folklore : and the cultural memory of religious change / / by Eric Shane Bryan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leeds : , : Arc Humanities Press, , [2021]

©2021

ISBN

9781641893763

1641893753

9781641894654

9781641893756

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (162 pages) : digital file(s)

Collana

Borderlines

Disciplina

398.2094912

Soggetti

Folklore - Iceland - History

Tales - Iceland - History and criticism

Reformation - Folklore

Christianity - Folklore

Tradition

Kollektives Gedächtnis

Electronic books.

Iceland Social life and customs

Island

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Erscheint als Open Access bei De Gruyter.

Nota di contenuto

; Frontmatter -- ; CONTENTS -- ; Preface -- ; Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Stories, Memories, and Mechanisms of Belief -- The Dead Bridegroom Carries Off His Bride: Pejoration and Adjacency Pairs in ATU 365 -- The Elf Woman's Conversion: Memories of Gender and Gender Spheres -- The Fylgjur of Iceland: Attendant Spirits and a Distorted Sense of Guardianship -- The Elf Church: Memories of Contested Sacred Spaces -- The Stupid Boy and the Devil: Sæmundur Fróði Sigfússon, Magic, and Redemption -- ; Conclusion -- ; Select Bibliography -- ; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Nearly all recent examinations of Icelandic (and Scandinavian) folklore



from the nineteenth century and earlier have concerned themselves with the origins and production of folktales rather than with the cultural implications of their content. This volume extends those discussions by offering an interdisciplinary methodology that weaves together the literature, religious and political history, and other cultural phenomena that have impacted folk narratives as evidence of the emergent cultural memory of a society undergoing the religious developments of Christianization and Reformation. Iceland's uncommon proclivity towards storytelling, its robust tradition of medieval manuscripts, and the "re-oralization" of those narratives after the medieval period, create a body of folktales and legends that have encoded a hidden account of how orthodox and heterodox beliefs (sometimes pagan in origin) intermingled as Christianity, and later Reformation, spread through the North. This volume unlocks that secret story by placing Icelandic folktales in a context of religious doctrine, social history, and Old Norse sagas and poetry. The analysis herein reveals a cultural memory of belief.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910779068703321

Titolo

Irish peasants [[electronic resource] ] : violence & political unrest, 1780-1914 / / edited by Samuel Clark & James S. Donnelly, Jr

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Madison, Wis., : University of Wisconsin Press, 1983

ISBN

1-283-48589-3

9786613485892

0-299-09373-5

Descrizione fisica

xiii, 454 p. : maps

Altri autori (Persone)

ClarkSamuel <1945->

DonnellyJames S

Disciplina

941.508

Soggetti

Peasant uprisings - Ireland - History - 18th century

Peasant uprisings - Ireland - History - 19th century

Peasant uprisings - Ireland - History - 20th century

Peasants - Political activity - Ireland - History - 18th century

Peasants - Political activity - Ireland - History - 19th century

Peasants - Political activity - Ireland - History - 20th century

Violence - Ireland - History - 18th century

Violence - Ireland - History - 19th century



Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910810776503321

Autore

Saccarelli Emanuele <1971->

Titolo

Imperialism past and present / / Emanuele Saccarelli and Latha Varadarajan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

0-19-939791-0

0-19-939790-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Classificazione

POL011000POL042000

Disciplina

325/.32

Soggetti

Imperialism - History

Imperialism - Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Machine generated contents note: -- Chapter 1: Heart of Darkness Revisited -- Chapter 2: Understanding Imperialism -- Chapter 3: The World, Divided (1885 to 1939) -- Chapter 4: The World, United? (1939-1991) -- Chapter 5: A Preemptive History of World War III (1991 - ?) -- Chapter 6: Imperialism Past, Present, and Future -- Notes -- Further Reading -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

After a long hiatus, when it was seemingly banished to the wilderness of esoteric academic debate, imperialism is back as one of the buzzwords of the day. In the past decade in particular, scholars, policy-makers and political pundits have been using the term with increasing frequency in their commentary on contemporary international relations. Many have invoked it as an old specter only to nervously deny its



contemporary applicability. Meanwhile, the term has continued to be applied to a diverse range of economic, political, cultural and linguistic phenomena. The sudden popularity of the term has created confusion about what it means and why we should care about it. Regardless of whether it is used as an invective or an ideal, imperialism has turned into an all-encompassing buzzword that many use, though few can really define. Imperialism Past and Present seeks to clarify the prevailing confusion and provide a clear, concise account of imperialism, as well as to introduce readers to the fundamental logic, as well as the complex manifestations of imperialism. It also aims to offer a succinct review and interpretation of the complex experiences that constituted the history of imperialism. The authors contend that imperialism remains at the heart of recent events and ongoing processes that define contemporary politics, and they look at the way that it applies in the post-Cold War period.