Airy nothings : : imagining the otherworld of faerie from the middle ages to the age of reason : essays in honour of Alasdair A. MacDonald / / edited by Karin E. Olsen and Jan R. Veenstra.
Ever since the Middle Ages the Otherworld of Faerie has been the object of serious intellectual scrutiny. What science in the end dismissed as airy nothings was given a local habitation and a name by art. This book presents some of the main chapters from the history and tradition of otherworldly spi...
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| Superior document: | Brill's Studies in Intellectual History, Volume 222 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden, Netherlands : : Brill,, 2014. ©2014 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Brill's studies in intellectual history ;
v. 222. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (275 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- Marlowe’s Ghost: The Second Report of Doctor John Faustus / Robert W. Maslen
- Rhetorical Play in Cornelius Agrippa: The Declamation on the Nobility and Preeminence of the Female Sex / John Flood
- Ein Schwert in Frauenhand: Notizen zu einigen volkssprachigen Texten des Mittelalters / Tette Hofstra
- Female Voices from the Otherworld: The Role of Women in the Early Irish Echtrai / Karin E. Olsen
- Morgan le Fay and the Fairy Mound in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight / Richard North
- Cresseid ‘Beyond the Pale’ / David J. Parkinson
- Die Widersacher des allmächtigen Gottes: Teufel und Dämonen in den Concordantiae Caritatis des Ulrich von Lilienfeld / Rudolf Suntrup
- Boundaries of the Fairy Realm in Scotland / Julian Goodare
- ‘Bull-Begger’: An Early Modern Scare-Word / Henk Dragstra
- Shaggie Thighs and Aery Formes: Satyres and Faeries in Ben Jonson’s Oberon / Helen Wilcox
- Paracelsian Spirits in Pope’s Rape of the Lock / Jan R. Veenstra
- Index.