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Literature & Literary StudiesJanuary 2013Ottonian Germany
The Chronicon of Thietmar of Merseburg
by David Warner
The Chronicon of Thietmar of Merseburg has long been recognised as one of the most important sources for the history of the tenth and early eleventh centuries, especially for the history of the Ottonian Empire. Thietmar's testimony also has special value because of his geographical location, in eastern Saxony, on the boundary between German and Slavic cultures. He is arguably the single most important witness to the early history of Poland, and his detailed descriptions of Slavic folklore are the earliest on record. This is a very important source in the medieval period, translated here in its entirety for the first time. It relates to an area of medieval studies generally dominated by German scholars, in which Anglo-phone scholars are beginning to make a substantial contribution.
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Literature & Literary StudiesJuly 2022Nordic Gothic
by Maria Holmgren Troy, Johan Hõglund, Yvonne Leffler, Sofia Wijkmark
Nordic Gothic traces Gothic fiction in the Nordic region from its beginnings in the nineteenth century, with a main focus on the development of Gothic from the 1990s onwards in literature, film, TV and new media. The volume gives an overview of Nordic Gothic fiction in relation to transnational developments and provides a number of case studies and in-depth analyses of individual narratives. It creates an understanding of this under-researched cultural phenomenon by showing how the narratives make visible cultural anxieties haunting the Nordic countries, their welfare systems, identities and ideologies. Nordic Gothic examines how figures from Nordic folklore function as metaphorical expressions of Gothic themes and Nordic settings are explored from perspectives such as ecocriticism and postcolonialism. The book will be of interest to researchers and post- and- undergraduate students in various fields within the Humanities.
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Biography & True StoriesFebruary 2025Unburied
The true story of Hannah Beswick, the Manchester Mummy
by Hannah Priest
The macabre tale of an eighteenth-century woman immortalised in folklore as the 'Manchester Mummy'. In 1835, the Manchester Natural History Society opened the doors of its museum. Taking pride of place in its collection were three mummies: one was Egyptian, one was Peruvian and one was a woman from Cheetham Hill. This is the first time the true story of Hannah Beswick, the so-called 'Manchester Mummy', has been told. Over the years, explanations for the Manchester Mummy have ranged from the chilling - Hannah's fear of being buried alive - to the downright bizarre - the legend of her buried gold - but the truth is more complex. Exploring this fascinating episode from museum history, Unburied sheds light on the Victorian turn to the macabre and changing attitudes to the display of human remains. It debunks the legends and asks what Hannah Beswick can tell us about death and dying, mummies and museums.
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Geography & the EnvironmentApril 2009The Charm of Folk Customs
by Hong Jiang
This volume gives an authentic introduction and brief explanation of Chinese folklore and customs from such aspects as mascots, zodiac, folk deities, birthday customs, traditional wedding and funeral ceremonies.
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Humanities & Social SciencesDecember 2019 - December 2024Essays On Diplomatic Mission in Europe by Qian Peide
by Qian Depei
It introduces the political system, economic development, culture, education and folklore of Germany, and records about the author's participation in foreign affairs activities, diplomatic etiquette, diplomatic documents and other relevant diplomatic matters.
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June 2020A Mouse Daughter's Wedding
by Yang Yongqing
"A Mouse Daughter's Wedding" originates from a folklore. After a little mouse girl came to a marriage age, she wanted to find the most powerful bridegroom from all kinds of creatures. However, she eventually found that the best is one of the mice. Each picture is lively and vivid, and the story becomes alive on paper.
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Humanities & Social SciencesDecember 2019 - December 2024Immortals in Ancient China
by Li Kehe
This book collects 180 stories about immortals in ancient China, translated into English, and accompanied by relevant pictures. It can help Chinese and foreign readers to understand the general situation of Chinese native immortals, especially Taoist immortals, and show the evolution of Chinese ancient folklore and cultural thoughts from one side.The copyright has been exported to Malaysia .
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June 2019The Giant’s Fire
by Tang Sulan, Aldy C. Aguirre
The Giant’s Fire is according to the folklore of the Philippines. Once upon a time, people didn't have fire. The fire was owned by a giant, but the giant kept eyes on the fire all the time. Neither could people cook, nor got heating in the cold weather. People needed fire indeed. However, no one dared to fight with the giant for the fire. A man named Lin An and his friends came up with a way to obtain the fire.
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Le secret de Bou'ghttat
by Jihane Andaloussi
Sitting on his bed with his knees drawn up to his chest, Jaber found his thoughts inevitably drifting to Bou’ghtat. Each night, this shadowy demon with a vague outline would haunt him, immobilizing him with overwhelming fear. Even wrapped in warm blankets, he trembled at the prospect of closing his eyes, fearing to enter once again a realm where he felt utterly exposed and defenseless.
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Children's & YA2020Kozy Korpesh and Bayan sulu
by no author
Heroic eposes are one of the genres of Kazakh nation’s folklore. The epic poem «Kozy Korpesh and Bayan sulu» is one of the most popular among them. It describes the pure love of the two young people as a symbol of love and faith. The story brings us back to that of Romeo and Juliette. There are several poetic versions of this epos, this version is adapted for children of middle and senior school age. This edition is published in two versions: in Kazakh and English, as well as in Russian and English.
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Literature & Literary StudiesDecember 2019 - December 2024The Classic of Mountains and Seas
by Chen Mingzhen
Shanhaijing is a book that records ancient Chinese mythology, history, geography, plants, animals, minerals, products, witchcraft, religion, medicine, folk custom and nationality. The cultural phenomena reflected in it are all inclusive. In addition to the abundant mythological materials, it also involves many academic fields, such as philosophy, aesthetics, religion, history, geography, astronomy, meteorology, medicine, animals, plants, minerals, folklore, ethnology, geology, oceanography, psychology, Anthropology Wait a moment. Under the condition of underdeveloped ancient culture, science and technology and transportation, Shanhaijing is a wonderful book with the most myths recorded in China, and also an ancient encyclopedia.
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December 2020Festivals of Chinese Ethnic Groups·Shui: The Duan Festival
by Yan Xiangjun, Chen Anmin
This book mainly describes the origin and changes of the Shui ethnic group's Duan Festival. Through the evolution of folklore of this unique festival of Shui ethnic group, this book tells that Shui people have the courage to move away from the barren old homeland and open up new places of residence by hard work. In the beautiful and fertile new hometown, people were united to defend the fruits of their labor and finally built a peaceful new life. The Shui people leveraged the customs of festivals to pass on the good wishes and construction experience of their ancestors from generation to generation.
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The Emerald Land
by Yuan Ye
This book is a fantasy novel which written by Yuanye, who places his gaze on the prairie where his life came from, gazing at the unique experience of exploring nature by Mongolian children. Through the perspectives of teenager Baiyin, Suolong and Uncle Tonglaga, their fantastic adventures show the beauty of the prairie's animals, plants, and folklore. This is a fantasy world in the depths of the prairie, which reads fantastically and purely. The naivete of children, the simplicity of herders, the reverence of nature, the exploration of the unknown world, and the cherishing of culture grow in this prairie, where there are adventures and growth, pure laughter and tears, making people yearn for childhood.
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Humanities & Social SciencesNovember 2020The supernatural in early modern Scotland
by Julian Goodare, Martha McGill, Janet Hadley Williams, Lizanne Henderson, Liv Helene Willumsen, Michelle D. Brock, Alasdair Raff, Jane Ridder-Patrick, Michael B. Riordan, Domhnall Uilleam Stiùbhart, Felicity Loughlin, Hamish Mathison
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Humanities & Social SciencesJanuary 2023The supernatural in early modern Scotland
by Julian Goodare, Martha McGill
This book is about other worlds and the supernatural beings, from angels to fairies, that inhabited them. It is about divination, prophecy, visions and trances. And it is about the cultural, religious, political and social uses to which people in Scotland put these supernatural themes between 1500 and 1800. The supernatural consistently provided Scots with a way of understanding topics such as the natural environment, physical and emotional wellbeing, political events and visions of past and future. In exploring the early modern supernatural, the book has much to reveal about how men and women in this period thought about, debated and experienced the world around them. Comprising twelve chapters by an international range of scholars, The supernatural in early modern Scotland discusses both popular and elite understandings of the supernatural.
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Dolce Vita
Kosher Regional Italian Cuisine
by Gaio Sciloni
A uniquely combined travel journal and regional Italian cookery guide, written by a true, native-born connoisseur of Italian culture. Dolce Vita is not an ordinary cookbook, but rather a systematic regional survey of Italy, from north to south, with each region characterized by its landscape, tradition and folklore, and most importantly, its Kosher though authentic culinary micro-culture. The author, Gaio Sciloni, born and raised in Tuscany, is a well-known writer who has furnished the Israeli reader with excellent translations of Italian literature.
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Literature & Literary StudiesMay 2001Ottonian Germany
The Chronicon of Thietmar of Merseburg
by Rosemary Horrox, Simon Maclean
The Chronicon of Thietmar of Merseburg has long been recognised as one of the most important sources for the history of the tenth and early eleventh centuries, especially for the history of the Ottonian Empire. Thietmar's testimony also has special value because of his geographical location, in eastern Saxony, on the boundary between German and Slavic cultures. He is arguably the single most important witness to the early history of Poland, and his detailed descriptions of Slavic folklore are the earliest on record. This is a very important source in the medieval period, translated here in its entirety for the first time. It relates to an area of medieval studies generally dominated by German scholars, in which Anglo-phone scholars are beginning to make a substantial contribution. ;
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Humanities & Social SciencesAugust 2010The Society for Irish Church Missions to the Roman Catholics, 1849–1950
by Miriam Moffitt
This work details traces the origins, development and impact of the proselytizing organization, the Society for Irish Church Missions to the Roman Catholics, from its Protestant foundation during the famine of 1845-47 to the early decades of Irish Free State. It argues that the foundation of this ostensibly religious society was also underpinned by social, political, and economic factors and demonstrates that by the mid 1850s the mission operated on a very substantial scale. Moffitt examines the mission's role in the shifting political realities of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The impact of this inter-faith power struggle and its legacy to the present day are explored by examining contemporary sources, folklore evidence, and the depiction of proselytizing missions in both Catholic and Protestant denomination literature and fictional writings. ;
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Dolce Vita
by Gaio Sciloni
Dolce Vita: Cocina regional italiana por Gaio Sciloni Una guía que combina singularmente la cocina regional italiana con un itinerario de viaje. Escrita por un nativo que es un verdadero conocedor de la cultura italiana. Dolce Vita no es un libro común de recetas sino mas bien un recorrido sistemático por las regiones de Italia de norte a sur. Cada región está caracterizada por su paisaje, tradiciones, folklore y por lo más importante, su micro-cultura culinaria. El autor, Gaio Sciloni, es un famoso escritor italiano que le ha proporcionado al lector israelí excelentes traducciones de literatura italiana y viceversa.
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Humanities & Social SciencesOctober 2021Ukrainian ancient beliefs: keys from Paradise-Iriy
by Ivan Prosyanyk
Ivan Prosyanyk from Chernihiv region is not only an artist, the author of folklore and artistic paintings on the theme of pagan holidays but also a writer, ethnographer, local historian, philosopher, storyteller, in addition, also a healer and herbalist. His narrative album contains paintings that colorfully highlight the ancient beliefs, traditions, and rituals of Ukrainians. Describing them, the artist calls to honor the Native Earth and Native Heavens to preserve the primary philosophy that existed at the most advanced level of the ancient world, those acquisitions, and knowledge of our ancestors that will continue to serve their descendants in the future. For a wide range of readers and everyone interested in the history of their region, beliefs, and customs of the ancient Ruthenians.
