- medieval ghost stories: an anthology of miracles, marvels and prodigies - a collection of ghostly occurrences from the eighth to the fourteenth centuries; they have been found in monastic chronicles and preaching manuals, in sagas and heroic poetry, and in medieval romances. (from the publisher)
- after lives: a guide to heaven, hell, and purgatory - explores and comments on ideas about post-mortem existence from ancient egypt, mesopotamia, israel, greece and rome, as well as in christianity and (more briefly) islam. (from the publisher)
- darkness: a cultural history - explores darkness as both a physical feature and cultural image, through themes of sight, blindness, consciousness, dreams, fear of the dark, night blindness, and the in-between states of dusk or fog, twilight and dawn, those points or periods of obscuration and clarification. (from the publisher)
- enchanted europe: superstition, reason, and religion 1250-1750 - is the first comprehensive, integrated account of western europe's long, complex dialogue with its own folklore and popular beliefs. drawing on many little-known and rarely used texts, euan cameron constructs a compelling narrative of the rise, diversification, and decline of popular 'superstition' in the european mind. (from the publisher)
- bedeviled: a shadow history of demons in science - how scientists through the ages have conducted thought experiments using imaginary entities—demons—to test the laws of nature and push the frontiers of what is possible. (from the publisher)
- the extraordinary and the everyday in early modern england: essays in celebration of the work of bernard capp - a fascinating collection of essays by renowned and emerging scholars exploring how everyday matters from farting to friendship reveal extraordinary aspects of early modern life, while seemingly exceptional acts and beliefs – such as those of ghosts, prophecies, and cannibalism – illuminate something of the routine experience of ordinary people. (from the publisher)
- landscapes of fear - in a series of linked essays that journey broadly across place, time, and cultures, tuan examines the diverse manifestations and causes of fear in individuals and societies: he describes the horror created by epidemic disease and supernatural visions of witches and ghosts; violence and fear in the country and the city; fears of drought, flood, famine, and disease; and the ways in which authorities devise landscapes of terror to instill fear and subservience in their own populations. (from the publisher)
- the severed head: capital visions - unpacks artistic representations of severed heads from the paleolithic period to the present. surveying paintings, sculptures, and drawings, julia kristeva turns her famed critical eye to a study of the head as symbol and metaphor, as religious object and physical fact, further developing a critical theme in her work--the power of horror--and the potential for the face to provide an experience of the sacred. (from the publisher)
- gothicka: vampire heroes, human gods, and the new supernatural - the gothic, romanticism's gritty older sibling, has flourished in myriad permutations since the eighteenth century. victoria nelson identifies the revolutionary turn it has taken in the twenty-first. (from the publisher)
- frauds, myths, and mysteries: science and pseudoscience in archaeology - uses interesting--and often humorous--archaeological hoaxes, myths, and mysteries to show how we can truly know things about the past through science. it is not just a book about how we know what isn't true about the human past--it's also about how we know what is true. (from the publisher)
- mystics and messiahs: cults and new religions in american history - the first full account of cults and anti-cult scares in American history. jenkins shows that, contrary to popular belief, cults were by no means an invention of the 1960s. (from the publisher)
- religion and its monsters - is essential reading for students and scholars of religion and popular culture, as well as for any readers with an interest in horror theory or monster theory. (from the publisher)
- on monsters: an unnatural history of our worst fears - is a wide-ranging cultural and conceptual history of monsters—how they have evolved over time, what functions they have served for us, and what shapes they are likely to take in the future. (from the publisher)
- the prince of darkness: radical evil and the power of good in history - jeffrey burton russell here chronicles the remarkable story of the devil from antiquity to the present. (from the publisher)
- medieval robots: mechanism, magic, nature, and art - recovers the forgotten history of fantastical, aspirational, and terrifying machines that captivated europe in imagination and reality between the ninth and fourteenth centuries. (from the publisher)
- gods and robots: myths, machines, and ancient dreams of technology - a groundbreaking account of the earliest expressions of the timeless impulse to create artificial life, this reveals how some of today’s most advanced innovations in robotics and ai were foreshadowed in ancient myth—and how science has always been driven by imagination. this is mythology for the age of ai. (from the publisher)
- from gods to god: how the bible debunked, suppressed, or changed ancient myths and legends - ancient israel was rich in such literary traditions before the bible reached the final form that we have today. written in clear and accessible language, this volume presents thirty such traditions. it voyages behind the veil of the written bible to reconstruct what was told and retold among the ancient israelites, even if it is “not what the bible tells us.” (from the publisher)
- a cabinet of byzantine curiosities: strange tales and surprising facts from history's most orthodox empire - an entertaining and enlightening guide for students and general readers interested in the late roman and byzantine worlds. introduces readers to a wide array of ancient texts and factoids, many of which have never before been translated or collected. (from the publisher)
- women who fly: goddesses, witches, mystics, and other airborne females - in this book, serinity young examines the motif of flying women as it appears in a wide variety of cultures and historical periods, expressed in legends, myths, rituals, sacred narratives, and artistic productions. (from the publisher)
- the spectral arctic: a history of dreams and ghosts in polar exploration - in contrast to oft-told tales of heroism and disaster, this book reveals the hidden stories of dreaming and haunted explorers, of frozen mummies, of rescue balloons, visits to inuit shamans, and of the entranced female clairvoyants who travelled to the arctic in search of john franklin’s lost expedition. through new readings of archival documents, exploration narratives, and fictional texts, these spectral stories reflect the complex ways that men and women actually thought about the far north in the past. (from the publisher)
- strange histories: the trial of the pig, the walking dead, and other matters of fact from the medieval and renaissance worlds - is an exploration of some of the most extraordinary beliefs that existed in the late middle ages through to the end of the seventeenth century. presenting serious accounts of the appearance of angels and demons, sea monsters and dragons within european and north american history, this book moves away from "present-centred thinking" and instead places such events firmly within their social and cultural context. (from the publisher)
- grimoires: a history of magic books - the first ever history of magic books - or grimoires - from the ancient middle east to buffy the vampire slayer. (from the publisher)
- dark tongues: the art of rogues and riddlers - from criminal jargons to sacred idioms, from saussure’s work on anagrams to jakobson’s theory of subliminal patterns in poetry, from the arcane arts of the druids and biblical copyists to the secret procedure that tristan tzara, founder of dada, believed he had uncovered in villon’s songs and ballads, this book explores the common crafts of rogues and riddlers, which play sound and sense against each other. (from the publisher)
- monster theory: reading culture - the contributors to this book consider beasts, demons, freaks and fiends as symbolic expressions of cultural unease that pervade a society and shape its collective behavior. (from the publisher)
- werewolf histories - is the first academic book in english to address european werewolf history and folklore from antiquity to the twentieth century. it covers the most important werewolf territories, ranging from scandinavia to germany, france and italy, and from croatia to estonia. (from the publisher)
- arts of living on a damaged planet: ghosts and monsters of the anthropocene - this timely anthology calls on twenty eminent humanists and scientists to revitalize curiosity, observation, and transdisciplinary conversation about life on earth. included are essays by scholars in anthropology, ecology, science studies, art, literature, and bioinformatics who posit critical and creative tools for collaborative survival in a more-than-human anthropocene. (from the publisher)
- vampire lectures - in this book, laurence a. rickels sifts through the rich mythology of vampirism, from medieval folklore to marilyn manson, to explore the profound and unconscious appeal of the undead. (from the publisher)
- monster culture in the 21st century: a reader - the essays in this collection examine how monstrosity has been used to manage these rising fears and tensions. analyzing popular films and televisions shows, such as true blood, twilight, paranormal activity, district 9, battlestar galactica, and avatar, it argues that monstrous narratives of the past decade have become omnipresent specifically because they represent collective social anxieties over resisting and embracing change in the 21st century. (from the publisher)
- twenty-first-century gothic: an edinburgh companion - this resource in contemporary gothic literature, film and television takes a thematic approach, providing insights into the many forms the gothic has taken in the twenty-first century. (from the publisher)
- wonders and the order of nature 1150–1750 - drawing on the histories of art, science, philosophy, and literature, lorraine daston and katharine park explore and explain how wonder and wonders fortified princely power, rewove the texture of scientific experience, and shaped the sensibility of intellectuals. (from the publisher)
- encyclopedia of national dress: traditional clothing around the world [2 volumes] - the contributors to this book examine clothing that is symbolic of the people who live in regions all over the world, providing a historical and geographic perspective that illustrates how people dress and explains the reasons behind the material, design, and style.
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