Charms, charmers and charming in Ireland : from the medieval to the modern
Record details
- ISBN: 1786834936
- ISBN: 9781786834935
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Physical Description:
1 online resource
remote - Publisher: Cardiff, Wales : National Book Network International (NBNi) : University of Wales Press, 2019.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | List of Illustrations and MapsList of TablesAbbreviationsNotes on ContributorsIntroduction1. 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, Invention3. Cathinka Dahl Hambro - The Religious Significance of the sén 7 soladh in Altram Tige Dá Medar4. Ilona Tuomi - Nine Hundred Years of the Caput Christi Charm: Scribal Strategies and Textual Transmission5. Ksenia Kudenko - In Defence of the Irish Saints who 'Loved Malediction'6. Barbara Hillers - Towards a Typology of European Narrative Charms in Irish Oral Tradition7. Nicholas M. Wolf - Nineteenth-Century Charm Texts: Scope and Context8. 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 Tradition10. Deirdre Nuttall - 'Cahill's Blood': Mr Cahill Makes the Cure11. Denis McArdle - Aisling na Maighdine: The Virgin's Dream in Irish Oral Tradition12. Gearóid Ó Crualaoich - An Leabhar Eoin: The 'In Principio' Charm in Oral and Literary Tradition13. Shane Lehane - The Cailleach and the Cosmic Hare14. Stiofán Ó Cadhla - 'We'll talk now about charms': Knowledge as Folklore and Folklore as KnowledgeBibliographyIndex |
Restrictions on Access Note: | NLC staff and students only. |
Source of Description Note: | On-line resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed November 12, 2019) |
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Subject: | Charms -- Ireland -- History Mythology, Celtic -- Ireland |
Genre: | Electronic books. History. |