Author: Gareth Knight
Publisher: Skylight Press
ISBN: 1908011483
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
The Breton lai is a narrative poem, usually accompanied by music, that appeared in France about the middle of the 12th century, carried by travelling musicians and storytellers called jongleurs. What is important about them is that they contain a great deal of faery and supernatural lore deriving from Celtic myth, legend and folktale. This collection of twelve tales focuses on faery lore in the lai tradition. Nine are taken from anonymous medieval jongleur sources; the other three are from the more courtly tales collected by Marie de France in the late 12th century. Gareth Knight, a scholar of medieval French as well as an established author on esoteric faery lore, provides a vivid and lively translation of each lai along with a commentary which takes a perspective both historic and esoteric.
Faery Loves and Faery Lais
Author: Gareth Knight
Publisher: Skylight Press
ISBN: 1908011483
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
The Breton lai is a narrative poem, usually accompanied by music, that appeared in France about the middle of the 12th century, carried by travelling musicians and storytellers called jongleurs. What is important about them is that they contain a great deal of faery and supernatural lore deriving from Celtic myth, legend and folktale. This collection of twelve tales focuses on faery lore in the lai tradition. Nine are taken from anonymous medieval jongleur sources; the other three are from the more courtly tales collected by Marie de France in the late 12th century. Gareth Knight, a scholar of medieval French as well as an established author on esoteric faery lore, provides a vivid and lively translation of each lai along with a commentary which takes a perspective both historic and esoteric.
Publisher: Skylight Press
ISBN: 1908011483
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
The Breton lai is a narrative poem, usually accompanied by music, that appeared in France about the middle of the 12th century, carried by travelling musicians and storytellers called jongleurs. What is important about them is that they contain a great deal of faery and supernatural lore deriving from Celtic myth, legend and folktale. This collection of twelve tales focuses on faery lore in the lai tradition. Nine are taken from anonymous medieval jongleur sources; the other three are from the more courtly tales collected by Marie de France in the late 12th century. Gareth Knight, a scholar of medieval French as well as an established author on esoteric faery lore, provides a vivid and lively translation of each lai along with a commentary which takes a perspective both historic and esoteric.
The Romance of the Faery Melusine
Author: André Lebey
Publisher: Skylight Press
ISBN: 1908011327
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
Springing from the heart of medieval France, The Romance of the Faery Melusine tells the story of Raymondin of Poitiers who accidentally kills his uncle while out hunting, and fleeing deep into the forest, encounters a faery by a fountain. Falling deeply into a mutual soul-love, the faery Melusine agrees to help Raymondin and to become his wife, on condition that he makes no attempt to see her between dusk and dawn each Saturday. On this basis the house of Lusignan thrives and prospers, until a series of treacherous events tempt Raymondin to violate his promise and shatter the magic which holds his faery wife to the human world. First rendered into written form in a text by Jean d'Arras in 1393, the legend of the Faery Melusine is well established in France, where she is credited with having founded the family, town and castle of Lusignan. However, it is very little known in the English-speaking world, despite the fact that Melusine originally hailed from Scotland. This new retelling by Gareth Knight translated from Andre Lebey's 1920s novel Le Roman de la Melusine captures the freshness of Lebey's telling of the legend and brings the benefit of Knight's expertise both in French literature and in the esoteric faery tradition.
Publisher: Skylight Press
ISBN: 1908011327
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
Springing from the heart of medieval France, The Romance of the Faery Melusine tells the story of Raymondin of Poitiers who accidentally kills his uncle while out hunting, and fleeing deep into the forest, encounters a faery by a fountain. Falling deeply into a mutual soul-love, the faery Melusine agrees to help Raymondin and to become his wife, on condition that he makes no attempt to see her between dusk and dawn each Saturday. On this basis the house of Lusignan thrives and prospers, until a series of treacherous events tempt Raymondin to violate his promise and shatter the magic which holds his faery wife to the human world. First rendered into written form in a text by Jean d'Arras in 1393, the legend of the Faery Melusine is well established in France, where she is credited with having founded the family, town and castle of Lusignan. However, it is very little known in the English-speaking world, despite the fact that Melusine originally hailed from Scotland. This new retelling by Gareth Knight translated from Andre Lebey's 1920s novel Le Roman de la Melusine captures the freshness of Lebey's telling of the legend and brings the benefit of Knight's expertise both in French literature and in the esoteric faery tradition.
I Called It Magic
Author: Gareth Knight
Publisher: Skylight Press
ISBN: 1908011157
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
The long-awaited magical autobiography of Gareth Knight covers a long career in pursuit of the Mysteries, from the adventures of New Dimensions magazine to the calling of King Arthur, from the rituals of Sherwood Forest to the Somme, from the wrath of fellow ritual magicians to the shining allure of Faery.
Publisher: Skylight Press
ISBN: 1908011157
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
The long-awaited magical autobiography of Gareth Knight covers a long career in pursuit of the Mysteries, from the adventures of New Dimensions magazine to the calling of King Arthur, from the rituals of Sherwood Forest to the Somme, from the wrath of fellow ritual magicians to the shining allure of Faery.
Merlin and the Grail Tradition
Author: Gareth Knight
Publisher: Skylight Press
ISBN: 1908011335
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
A collection of essays tracing the historical importance and esoteric influence of Merlin and the Grail tradition, from its mythological beginnings right down to its relevance in modern magical practice.
Publisher: Skylight Press
ISBN: 1908011335
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
A collection of essays tracing the historical importance and esoteric influence of Merlin and the Grail tradition, from its mythological beginnings right down to its relevance in modern magical practice.
Studies in the Fairy Mythology of Arthurian Romance
Author: Lucy Allen Paton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arthurian romances
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arthurian romances
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Magic Tales and Fairy Tale Magic
Author: R. Bottigheimer
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137380888
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
This book examines magic's generally maleficent effect on humans from ancient Egypt through the Middle Ages, including tales from classical mythology, Jewish, Christian, and Muslim cultures. It shows that certain magical motifs lived on from age to age, but that it took until the Italian Renaissance for magic tales to become fairy tales.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137380888
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
This book examines magic's generally maleficent effect on humans from ancient Egypt through the Middle Ages, including tales from classical mythology, Jewish, Christian, and Muslim cultures. It shows that certain magical motifs lived on from age to age, but that it took until the Italian Renaissance for magic tales to become fairy tales.
The Fairy Mythology
Author: Thomas Keightley
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fairies
Languages : en
Pages : 602
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fairies
Languages : en
Pages : 602
Book Description
The Fairy Mythology Illustrative of the Romance and Superstition of Vairous Countries
Author: Thomas Keightley
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 590
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 590
Book Description
Fall in love with the painting fairy
Author: Xiao Ding
Publisher: Devneybooks
ISBN: 1304462013
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 765
Book Description
When I was seven years old, although my parents came to the ancient town of Fusheng, here, the folk customs were honest and the people lived and worked in peace and contentment. Every step I took, I looked up and found that everyone passing by me had a smiling face like me.
Publisher: Devneybooks
ISBN: 1304462013
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 765
Book Description
When I was seven years old, although my parents came to the ancient town of Fusheng, here, the folk customs were honest and the people lived and worked in peace and contentment. Every step I took, I looked up and found that everyone passing by me had a smiling face like me.
French Fairy Tales
Author: Bettina L. Knapp
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 0791488098
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Bettina L. Knapp explores the universal and eternal nature of fourteen French fairy tales, including the medieval Romance of Mélusine, Charles Perrault's seventeenth-century versions of Sleeping Beauty and Bluebeard, and Jean Cocteau's film version of Beauty and the Beast. She demonstrates the relevance of these fairy tales for modern readers, both for the psychological problems they address and for the positive resolutions they offer. Through her careful examination of these tales, Knapp shows that people in past eras suffered from such supposedly "modern" problems as alienation and identity crises and went through harrowing ordeals before experiencing some sort of fulfillment. By imparting the age-old wisdom embedded in these works, French Fairy Tales triggers new insights into psychological problems and offers helpful ways of dealing with them.
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 0791488098
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Bettina L. Knapp explores the universal and eternal nature of fourteen French fairy tales, including the medieval Romance of Mélusine, Charles Perrault's seventeenth-century versions of Sleeping Beauty and Bluebeard, and Jean Cocteau's film version of Beauty and the Beast. She demonstrates the relevance of these fairy tales for modern readers, both for the psychological problems they address and for the positive resolutions they offer. Through her careful examination of these tales, Knapp shows that people in past eras suffered from such supposedly "modern" problems as alienation and identity crises and went through harrowing ordeals before experiencing some sort of fulfillment. By imparting the age-old wisdom embedded in these works, French Fairy Tales triggers new insights into psychological problems and offers helpful ways of dealing with them.