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Legends --- Mythology, British --- Dictionaries --- Dictionaries
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Folklore --- Mythology, British --- Great Britain --- Social life and customs
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Throughout the recorded history of Britain, belief in earthbound spirits presiding over nature, the home and human destiny has been a feature of successive cultures. From the localised deities of Britannia to the Anglo-Saxons' elves and the fairies of late medieval England, Britain's godlings have populated a shadowy, secretive realm of ritual and belief running parallel to authorised religion. Twilight of the Godlings delves deep into the elusive history of these supernatural beings, tracing their evolution from the pre-Roman Iron Age to the end of the Middle Ages. Arguing that accreted cultural assumptions must be cast aside in order to understand the godlings - including the cherished idea that these folkloric creatures are the decayed remnants of pagan gods and goddesses - this bold, revisionist book traces Britain's 'small gods' to a popular religiosity influenced by classical learning. It offers an exciting new way of grasping the island's most mysterious mythical inhabitants.
Mythology, British. --- Nature --- Religious aspects. --- Great Britain --- Religion. --- Philosophy of nature --- Religion and science --- British mythology --- Religious interpretations --- Mythology, British
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Legends --- Mythology, Celtic --- Mythology, British. --- Légendes --- Mythologie celtique --- Mythologie britannique --- Légendes
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Mythology, British --- Mythologie britannique --- Great Britain --- Grande-Bretagne --- Antiquities --- Antiquités
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"Celtic and Gothic : both words refer today to both ancient tribes and modern styles. 'Celtic' is associated with harp music, native knitwear, and spirituality; 'Gothic' with medieval cathedrals, rock bands, and horror fiction. The eleven essays collected together here chart some of the curious and unexpected ways in which the Celts and the Goths were appropriated and reinvented in Britain and other European countries through the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries--becoming not just mythologised races, but lending their names to abstract principles and entire value systems. Contributed by experts in literature, archaeology, history, and Celtic studies, the essays range from broad surveys to specific case-studies, and together demonstrate the complicated interplay that has always existed between 'Celticism' and 'Gothicism'. Contributors are: John Collis, Robert DeMaria, Tom Duggett, Tim Fulford, Nick Groom, Amy Hale, Ronald Hutton, Joep Leerssen, Dafydd Moore, Joanne Parker, Juan Zarandona"--Provided by publisher.
Civilization, Celtic. --- Celts --- Civilization, Germanic. --- Goths --- Mythology, British. --- Mythology, European. --- History. --- Great Britain --- Europe --- Civilization.
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Folklore --- Legends --- Mythology, British. --- Mythology, Scottish. --- Mythology, Welsh. --- Mythology, Celtic. --- Mythology, English. --- Myth --- History.
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