Charms, Charmers and Charming in Ireland : From the Medieval to the Modern /: From the Medieval to the Modern. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: John Carey, Ciarán Ó Gealbháin, Ilona Tuomi, Barbara Hillers.
• Editors: Carey, John; Ó Géalbháin, Ciarán; Tuomi, Ilona; Hillers, Barbara
• Contents: 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
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: University of Wales Press
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource (288 pages)
• Subjects: HISTORY / Modern / General; HISTORY / Modern / 17th Century; HISTORY / Modern / 18th Century; HISTORY / Modern / 19th Century; HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century; HISTORY / Modern / 21st Century; HISTORY / Modern / 16th Century; LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval; Classical texts; British & Irish history; Medieval history; Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900; 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000; 21st century history: from c 2000
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781786834942; 1786834944
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.