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The Brahan Seer

The Making of a Legend

Alexander Sutherland (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

2009
Peter Lang Group Ag, International Academic Publishers (Verlag)
978-3-03911-868-7 (ISBN)

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The Brahan Seer is a legendary figure known throughout Scotland and the Scottish Diaspora and indeed anywhere there is an interest in looking into the future. This book traces the legend of the Seer between the sixteenth and twenty-first centuries. It considers the seer figure in relation to aspects of Scottish Highland culture and society that shaped its development during this period. These include the practice and prosecution of witchcraft, the reporting and scientific investigation of instances of second sight, and the perennial belief in and use of prophecy as a means of predicting events. In so doing the book provides a set of historicised contexts for understanding the genesis of the legend and how it changed over time through a synthesis of historical events, oral tradition, folklore and literary Romanticism. It makes a contribution to the debates not only about witchcraft, second sight and prophecy but also about the relationship between 'popular' and 'elite' culture in Scotland. By taking the Brahan Seer as a case study it argues that 'popular' culture is not antithetical to 'elite' culture but rather in constant (and complex) interaction with it.

The Author: Alex Sutherland was educated at the University of Aberdeen where he took a joint honours degree in philosophy and psychology, and a Ph.D. in history. He is now a freelance scholar.

Contents: The Fowlis Affair and the 'Real' Coinneach Odhar? - Witchcraft Trials in Restoration Scotland: Rational Reluctance and Corrupt Exploitation - Enlightenment and Elite Interest in Second Sight - Coinneach Odhar in Oral Tradition - The Making of a Legend - The Power of Prophecy.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	7.1.2009
Reihe/Serie	Studies in the History and Culture of Scotland ; 15
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	400 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Volkskunde
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
Schlagworte	Alexander • Anne • Brahan • Culture • Enlightenment • Ethnology • Folklore • Hardcover, Softcover / Ethnologie/Volkskunde • Legend • Making • o'connor • Oral History • Power of Prophecy • Prophecy • Romanticism • Scottish Highlands • Second Sight • Seer • Sutherland • Witchcraft
ISBN-10	3-03911-868-4 / 3039118684
ISBN-13	978-3-03911-868-7 / 9783039118687
Zustand	Neuware