Download or read book Pope s Mythologies written by A.D. Cousins and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-05-05 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is the first to discuss the canon of Pope’s verse in relation to Early British Enlightenment thinking about mythology and mythography. Pope did not merely use classical (along with non-classical) mythology in his verse as a traditional, richly diverse medium through which to represent the diversity of private and civic life in his day, but he was an ambitious translator as well as refashioner of myth. It is a medium that he shapes anew and variously across all his major poems. This volume enhances appreciation of myth as a mode of apprehension as well as expression throughout Pope’s verse. In doing so it illuminates how, in early eighteenth-century Britain, understandings of what myth is and what it does were taking new directions – not least in response to Baconian thought and its legacy.
Download or read book The Myth of Pope Joan written by Alain Boureau and published by . This book was released on 2001-05 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the ninth century, a brilliant young woman named Joan disguised herself as a man so that she could follow her lover into the then-exclusively male world of scholarship. She proved so successful that she ascended the Catholic hierarchy in Rome and was eventually elected pope. Her pontificate lasted two years, until she became pregnant and died after giving birth during a public procession from the Vatican. Or so the legend goes—a legend that was fabricated sometime in the thirteenth century, according to Alain Boureau, and which has persisted in one form or another down to the present day. In this fascinating saga of belief and rhetoric, politics and religion, Boureau investigates the historical and ecclesiastical circumstances under which the myth of Pope Joan was constructed and the different uses to which it was put over the centuries. He shows, for instance, how Catholic clerics justified the exclusion of women from the papacy and the priesthood by employing the myth in misogynist moral tales, only to find the popess they had created turned against them in anti-Catholic propaganda during the Reformation.
Download or read book Pope s Mythologies written by and published by . This book was released on 2023-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This volume is the first to discuss the canon of Pope's verse in relation to Early British Enlightenment thinking about mythology and mythography. Pope did not merely use classical (along with non-classical) mythology in his verse as a traditional, richly diverse medium through which to represent the diversity of private and civic life in his day, but was an ambitious translator as well as refashioner of myth. It is a medium that he shapes anew and variously across all his major poems. This volume enhances appreciation of myth as a mode of apprehension as well as expression throughout Pope's verse. In doing so it illuminates how, in early eighteenth-century Britain, understandings of what myth is and what it does were taking new directions - not least in response to Baconian thought and its legacy"--
Download or read book Curious Myths of the Middle Ages written by S. Baring-Gould and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-06-12 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Curious Myths of the Middle Ages written by Sabine Baring-Gould and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The wandering Jew.-Prester John.-The divining rod.-The seven sleepers of Ephesus.-William Tell.-The dog Gellert.-Tailed men.-Antichrist and Pope Jaon.-The man in the moon.-The mountain of Venus.-S. Patrick's purgatory.-The terrestrial paradise.-S. George.-S. Ursula and the eleven thousand virgins.-The legend of the cross.-Schamir.-The piper of Hamelin.-Bishop Hatto.-Melusina.-The Fortunate Isles.-Swan-maidens.-The knight of the swan.-The Sangreal.-Theophilus.-Appendix.
Download or read book Curious Myths of the Middle Ages written by Sabine Baring-Gould and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Commentary Mythological Historical and Geographical on Pope s Homer and Dryden s Aeneid of Virgil written by and published by . This book was released on 1829 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pope and the Destiny of the Stuarts written by Pat Rogers and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2005-06-30 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book gives a complete account of Pope's life and work in his early twenties, and supplies a new political interpretation, including a careful analysis of possible Jacobite colourings."--Jacket.
Download or read book The Best Books Class A Theology B Mythology and folklore C Philosophy 1910 written by William Swan Sonnenschein and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Class A Theology B Mythology and folklore C Philosophy 1910 written by William Swan Sonnenschein and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Universal Pronouncing Dictionary of Biography and Mythology written by Joseph Thomas and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 2580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Universal Pronouncing Dictionary of Biography and Mythology Her to Z written by Joseph Thomas and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 1462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Universal Dictionary of Biography and Mythology written by Joseph Thomas and published by Cosimo, Inc.. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once considered the largest and most extensive source of biographies in the English language, The Universal Dictionary of Biography and Mythology contains information on nearly every historical figure, notable name, and important subject of mythology from throughout the world prior to the 20th century. Spanning all fields of human effort-from literature and the arts to philosophy and science-and touching on topics from multiple areas of mythological study, including Norse, Greek, and Roman, this extraordinary reference guide continues to be one of the most thorough and accurate collections of biographical data ever created. Combining mythological and biographical entries into a single, comprehensive list, and incorporating a unique system of indicating pronunciation and orthography, The Universal Dictionary of Biography and Mythology offers readers an unparalleled record of historically significant identities, from the obscure and forgotten newsmakers of yesteryear to the highly celebrated shapers of history that remain influential today. Volume II (CLU-HYS) of this exquisite four-volume set includes information on such names as Clytemnestra, Constantine the Great, Charles Dickens, Stoic philosopher Euphrates, English author John Fox, Galileo, Hercules, and many more. JOSEPH THOMAS (1811-1891) also wrote A Comprehensive Medical Dictionary, various pronouncing vocabularies of biographical and geographical names, and a system of pronunciation for Lippincott's Pronouncing Gazetteer of the World.
Download or read book Curious Myths of the Middle Ages written by Sabine Baring-Gould and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-11-13 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Curious Myths of the Middle Ages is a collection of a dozen of tales and legends from medieval England. The author does a thorough research relating these stories to the extant mythology from many ancient cultures, tracing the origin of each myth. Table of Contents: The Wandering Jew Prester John The Divining Rod The Seven Sleepers of Ephesus William Tell The Dog Gellert Tailed Men Antichrist and Pope Joan The Man in the Moon The Mountain of Venus Fatality of Numbers The Terrestrial Paradise
Download or read book Tombs in and Near Rome Sculpture Among the Greeks and Romans Mythology in Funereal Sculpture and Early Christian Sculpture written by John Henry Parker and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Myth of Hitler s Pope written by David G. Dalin and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-03-28 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Was Pope Pius XII secretly in league with Adolf Hitler? No, says Rabbi David G. Dalin, but there was a cleric in league with Hitler: the grand mufti of Jerusalem, Hajj Amin al-Husseini. As Pope Pius XII worked to save Jews from the Nazis, the grand mufti became Hitler’s staunch ally and a promoter of the Holocaust, with a legacy that feeds radical Islam today. In this shocking and thoroughly documented book, Rabbi Dalin explodes the myth of Hitler’s pope and condemns the mythmakers for not only rewriting history, but for denying the testimony of Holocaust survivors, hijacking the Holocaust for unseemly political ends, and ignoring the real threat to the Jewish people.
Download or read book Curious Myths of the Middle Ages written by S. Barin-gould and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-07-23 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1873. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
