Power of Words - Studies on Charms and Charming in Europe

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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.

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• Authors: James Alexander Kapalo, James Kapalo, James (Lecturer Kapalo, James Alexander Kapalo, James Alexander Pocs Kapalo, James Pocs Kapalo, KAPALO JAMES ALEXANDER POCS EVA, William Francis Pocs Ryan
• Assisted by: James Kapalo (Editor), James A. Kapalo (Editor), James Alexander Kapalo (Editor), James Kapaló (Editor), Eva Pocs (Editor), Éva Pócs (Editor), William Ryan (Editor), William Francis Ryan (Editor)
• Publisher: Central european university pr
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.04.2013
• EAN: 9786155225109
• ISBN: 978-615-5225-10-9
• No. of pages: 334
• Subjects: Guides > Spirituality > Ancient knowledge, ancient cultures; Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works