The Power of Words - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 6155225109 ISBN 13 : 9786155225109

Editeur : Central European University Press, 2013

Synopsis

The research of the folklore genre of charms became extremely dynamic around the turn of the millennium. A number of academic disciplines allied themselves to explore manuscripts healing texts and other textual relics of verbal magic from antiquity and the middle ages. Studying this corpus has shed light on a number of previously unexplored aspects of Eurasian cultures.
The authors of the twelve essays in the book, covering a wide geographical and thematic range, include representatives of European ethnology and folklore studies, contemporary and historical anthropology, as well as linguistics, the study of Classical Antiquity, mediaeval studies, Byzantine studies, Russian and Baltic studies. The essays reflect the rich textual tradition of archives, monasteries and literary sources, as well as the texts amassed in the folklore archives or those still accessible through field work in many rural areas of Europe and known from the living practice of lay specialists of magic and healers in local communities, and even of priests.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

James Kapalo is Lecturer in the Study of Religions Department, University College Cork, Ireland. Éva Pócs is Professor emeritus at the Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, University of Pécs, Hungary. William Francis Ryan is series editor for the Hakluyt Society, former President of the Folklore Society, former President of the Hakluyt Society.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Central European University Press
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 6155225109
• ISBN 13: 9786155225109
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 334
• Éditeur: Ryan William Francis, Pócs Éva, Kapalo James
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