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Le surnaturel et la nature dans la mentalité primitive
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ISBN: 1554414202 Year: 2002 Publisher: Chicoutimi : J.-M. Tremblay,

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Surrealism and the Sacred : Power, Eros, and the Occult in Modern Art
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ISBN: 0813365570 Year: 2002 Publisher: Boulder Oxford Westview press

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Werewolves, Witches, and Wandering Spirits : Traditional Belief and Folklore in Early Modern Europe
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ISBN: 1935503731 Year: 2002 Publisher: Kirksville, MO : Truman State University Press,

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Bringing together scholars from Europe, America, and Australia, this volume explores the more fantastic elements of popular religious belief: ghosts, werewolves, spiritualism, animism, and of course, witchcraft. These traditional religious beliefs and practices are frequently treated as marginal in more synthetic studies of witchcraft and popular religion, yet Protestants and Catholics alike saw ghosts, imps, werewolves, and other supernatural entities as populating their world. Embedded within notarial and trial records are accounts that reveal the integration of folkloric and theological elements in early modern spirituality. Drawing from extensive archival research, the contributors argue for the integration of such beliefs into our understanding of late medieval and early modern Europe.

Victorian hauntings : spectrality, gothic, the uncanny and literature.
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ISBN: 0333922522 Year: 2002 Publisher: Basingstoke Palgrave

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To live as long as heaven and earth : a translation and study of Ge Hong's traditions of divine transcendents
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ISBN: 1283277026 9786613277022 0520927605 1597349593 9780520927605 1417523875 9781417523870 9781597349598 9780520230347 0520230345 Year: 2002 Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press,

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In late classical and early medieval China, ascetics strove to become transcendents--deathless beings with supernormal powers. Practitioners developed dietetic, alchemical, meditative, gymnastic, sexual, and medicinal disciplines (some of which are still practiced today) to perfect themselves and thus transcend death. Narratives of their achievements circulated widely. Ge Hong (283-343 C.E..) collected and preserved many of their stories in his Traditions of Divine Transcendents, affording us a window onto this extraordinary response to human mortality. Robert Ford Company's groundbreaking and carefully researched text offers the first complete, critical translation and commentary for this important Chinese religious work, at the same time establishing a method for reconstructing lost texts from medieval China. Clear, exacting, and annotated, the translation comprises over a hundred lively, engaging narratives of individuals deemed to have fought death and won. Additionally, To Live as Long as Heaven and Earth systematically introduces the Chinese quest for transcendence, illuminating a poorly understood tradition that was an important source of Daoist religion and a major social, cultural, and religious phenomenon in its own right.

The metamorphosis of magic from Late Antiquity to the Early Modern Period
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ISBN: 9042912278 Year: 2002 Volume: 1 Publisher: Leuven Paris Dudley, MA Peeters

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Werewolves, witches, and wandering spirits: traditional belief & folkore in early modern Europe
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ISBN: 1931112096 1931112088 9781931112093 Year: 2002 Volume: 62 Publisher: Kirksville, Mo. Truman State University

Russian opera and the symbolist movement
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ISBN: 0520927265 1597348813 9780520927261 0585419590 9780585419596 9781597348812 9780520229433 0520229436 0520229436 Year: 2002 Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press,

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An aesthetic, historical, and theoretical study of four scores, Russian Opera and the Symbolist Movement is a groundbreaking and imaginative treatment of the important yet neglected topic of Russian opera in the Silver Age. Spanning the gap between the supernatural Russian music of the nineteenth century and the compositions of Prokofiev and Stravinsky, this exceptionally insightful and well-researched book explores how Russian symbolist poets interpreted opera and prompted operatic innovation. Simon Morrison shows how these works, though stylistically and technically different, reveal the extent to which the operatic representation of the miraculous can be translated into its enactment.Morrison treats these largely unstudied pieces by canonical composers: Tchaikovsky's Queen of Spades, Rimsky-Korsakov's Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh and the Maiden Fevroniya, Scriabin's unfinished Mysterium, and Prokofiev's Fiery Angel. The chapters, revisionist studies of these composers and scores, address separate aspects of Symbolist poetics, discussing such topics as literary and musical decadence, pagan-Christian syncretism, theurgy, and life creation, or the portrayal of art in life. The appendix offers the first complete English-language translation of Scriabin's libretto for the Preparatory Act.Providing valuable insight into both the Symbolist enterprise and Russian musicology, this book casts new light on opera's evolving, ambiguous place in fin de siècle culture.

Geoffrey of Burton : life and miracles of St Modwenna
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ISBN: 0198206062 9780198206064 Year: 2002 Volume: *35 Publisher: Oxford New York Clarendon Press Oxford University Press

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