Paganism In Arthurian Romance

Author : John Darrah
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 9780859914260
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Paganism in Arthurian Romance written by John Darrah and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 1997 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "His most original contribution to an unravelling of a pagan Arthurian past lies in his appropriation of the fascinating evidence of standing stones and pagan cultic sites. The magical attributes of stones are exemplified in prehistoric standing stones, the real counterparts of the perrons of the French romances. This is dark and difficult territory, but certain events in the Arthurian cycle, which take place on and around Salisbury Plain, have correspondences with known prehistoric events. Building on these elusive clues, and tracing a range of sites around the river Severn and south Wales, John Darrah has added a significant new dimension to the search for the sources of England's great epic, the legends of Arthur and his court."--Jacket.

Author : John Darrah
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9787110009338
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Real Camelot written by John Darrah and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Darrah
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
ISBN 13 : 9780500012505
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Real Camelot written by John Darrah and published by Thames & Hudson. This book was released on 1981-01-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Roger Sherman Loomis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Celtic Myth and Arthurian Romance written by Roger Sherman Loomis and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ward Rutherford
Publisher : Weiser Books
ISBN 13 : 1609259912
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Celtic Mythology written by Ward Rutherford and published by Weiser Books. This book was released on 2015-05-01 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a lively and absorbing account of the world of Celtic myth and the role it has played in the development of western culture. Included here are: The world of the Celts, including an historical overview from their emergence as an identifiable people around 1000 B.C. Also included is an exploration of their social structure. The contents of Celtic myths and the differences and similarities between their manifestation in Britain and Ireland. The topography of the supernatural world of Celtic myth, including discussion of Druidism, Shamanism, and the meaning of Celtic myths. The influence of Celtic myth in English literature from Arthurian legend to the Grail legends. This highly literate, lively, and absorbing exploration of one of the jewels of European cultural heritage demonstrates how deeply Celtic mythology has become embedded in Western consciousness. It is for anyone interested in history, mythology, spirituality, and culture.

Author : Roger Sherman Loomis
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
ISBN 13 : 1613732090
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Celtic Myth and Arthurian Romance written by Roger Sherman Loomis and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2005-08-30 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: King Arthur was not an Englishman, but a Celtic warrior, according to Loomis, whose research into the background of the Arthurian legend reveals findings which are both illuminating and highly controversial. The author sees the vegetarian goddess as the prototype of many damsels in Arthurian romance, and Arthur's knights as the gods of sun and storm. If Loomis's arguments are accepted, where does this leave the historic Arthur?

Author : Peter Meister
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134827822
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Arthurian Literature and Christianity written by Peter Meister and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intended as "the other bookend" to Jessie Weston's work some eighty years earlier, this essay collection provides a careful overview of recent scholarship on possible overlap between Arthurian literature and Christianity. From Ritual to romance and Notes, taken together, bracket contemporary inquiry into the relationship (if any) between Jesus and Arthur. T.S. Eliot's "The Waste Land" is here regarded as one strand joining this matter to many a recent literary riddle (such as the meaning of the term "postmodernism"). Without reprinting work readily available elsewhere and no longer subject to revision through dialogue with fellow contributors, Notes attempts to do justice to all sides in twentieth century exploration of christianity's contribution to an art form which is also grounded in early European polytheism ("paganism").

Author : Jessie Laidlay Weston
Publisher : Waking Lion Press
ISBN 13 : 9781434102386
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Ritual to Romance written by Jessie Laidlay Weston and published by Waking Lion Press. This book was released on 2009-02-22 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jessie Laidlay Weston (18501928) was an independent scholar who specialized in medieval Arthurian texts. In 1920, at the age of seventy, she published From Ritual to Romance, which examines the roots of the King Arthur legends, exploring the connections between early pagan elements and later Christian influences. Its revolutionary theory holds that the basic elements of the Grail story are remnants of ancient fertility rites designed to heal the broken land. Poet T. S. Eliot acknowledged the book as crucial to understanding his poem TheWaste Land, noting, Not only the title, but the plan and a good deal of the incidental symbolism of the poem were suggested by Miss Jessie L. Weston's book on the Grail legend: From Ritual to Romance (Cambridge). Indeed, so deeply am I indebted, MissWeston's book will elucidate the difficulties of the poem much better than my notes can do; and I recommend it (apart from the great interest of the book itself) to any who think such elucidation of the poem worth the trouble. Drawing on The Golden Bough, Sir James George Frazer's seminal work on folklore, magic, and religion, Weston examines the mystical elements of the QuesttheWasteland, the Fisher King, the Chapel Perilous, and the Grail itselftying them to the symbols and rites of the ancient mystery religions. She writes, The study and the criticism of the Grail literature will possess an even deeper interest, a more absorbing fascination, when it is definitely recognized that we possess in that literature a unique example of the restatement of an ancient and august Ritual in terms of imperishable Romance. Although her style is formal and academic, the information she presents is rivetingmandatory reading for anyone interested in exploring mythology, the Arthurian legend, and the roots of religion.

Author : Norris J. Lacy
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317341848
Total Pages : 572 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Romance of Arthur written by Norris J. Lacy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-07-17 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Romance of Arthur, James J. Wilhelm’s classic anthology of Arthurian literature, is an essential text for students of the medieval Romance tradition. This fully updated third edition presents a comprehensive reader, mapping the course of Arthurian literature, and is expanded to cover: key authors such as Chrétien de Troyes and Thomas of Britain, as well as Arthurian texts by women and more obscure sources for Arthurian romance extensive coverage of key themes and characters in the tradition a wide geographical range of texts including translations from Latin, French, German, Spanish, Welsh, Middle English, and Italian sources a broad chronological range of texts, encompassing nearly a thousand years of Arthurian romance. Norris J. Lacy builds on the book’s source material, presenting readers with a clear introduction to many accessible modern-spelling versions of Arthurian texts. The extracts are presented in a new reader-friendly format with detailed suggestions for further reading and illustrations of key places, figures, and scenes. The Romance of Arthur provides an excellent introduction and an extensive resource for both students and scholars of Arthurian literature.

Author : John Nowell Linton Myres
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780192822352
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The English Settlements written by John Nowell Linton Myres and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1989 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dark ages of English history between the collapse of Roman rule in the early fifth century and the emergence of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms in the seventh century are examined in this study, which draws attention to political and social factors linking Roman Britain to Anglo-Saxon England.