Charms, Charmers and Charming in Ireland (eBook)

From the Medieval to the Modern

John Carey, Ciarán Ó Gealbháin, Ilona Tuomi, Barbara Hillers (Herausgeber)

eBook Download: EPUB

2019
288 Seiten
University of Wales Press (Verlag)
978-1-78683-494-2 (ISBN)

Infos

An authoritative collection of studies of Irish charms, and the first to cover both the medieval and the modern evidence.

Inhalt

List of Illustrations and Maps
List of Tables
Abbreviations
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
1. 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, Invention
3. Cathinka Dahl Hambro – The Religious Significance of the sén 7 soladh in Altram Tige Dá Medar
4. Ilona Tuomi – Nine Hundred Years of the Caput Christi Charm: Scribal Strategies and Textual Transmission
5. Ksenia Kudenko – In Defence of the Irish Saints who ‘Loved Malediction’
6. Barbara Hillers – Towards a Typology of European Narrative Charms in Irish Oral Tradition
7. Nicholas M. Wolf – Nineteenth-Century Charm Texts: Scope and Context
8. 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 Tradition
10. Deirdre Nuttall – ‘Cahill’s Blood’: Mr Cahill Makes the Cure
11. Denis McArdle – Aisling na Maighdine: The Virgin’s Dream in Irish Oral Tradition
12. Gearóid Ó Crualaoich – An Leabhar Eoin: The ‘In Principio’ Charm in Oral and Literary Tradition
13. Shane Lehane – The Cailleach and the Cosmic Hare
14. Stiofán Ó Cadhla – ‘We’ll talk now about charms’: Knowledge as Folklore and Folklore as Knowledge
Bibliography
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.10.2019
• Reihe/Serie: New Approaches to Celtic Religion and Mythology
• Reihe/Serie: New Approaches to Celtic Religion and Mythology
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Klassiker / Moderne Klassiker
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Schlagworte: Barbara • Carey • Charmers • charming • Charms • Ciarán • from • Gealbháin • hillers • Ilona • Ireland • John • Medieval • Modern • Ó • to • Tuomi
• ISBN-10: 1-78683-494-4 / 1786834944
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78683-494-2 / 9781786834942