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Fairies and Fairy Stories: A History
Whether on top of the Christmas tree, at the bottom of the garden, or in school plays, today fairies are considered sweet, dainty creatures with wands and butterfly wings. But, as Diane Purkiss shows, they have far more wicked origins as troublemakers, child snatchers, seducers, and changelings, representing society's deepest fears and desires regarding birth, sex, and death. From these dangerous beings of ancient myths and medieval folklore to the sanitized "wingy thingies" of Shakespeare and the Victorians, and even modern myths of alien abduction, this is a riveting chronicle of the need to believe in fairies. .
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The Witch in History: Early Modern and Twentieth-Century Representations
Throughout history the figure of the witch has embodied both male nightmare and female fantasy While early modern women used belief and ritual to express and manage powerful feelings, the symbols and images surrounding the witch in the New World largely distorted the European views of Native American religions. In our own era, groups as diverse as women writers, academic historians and radical feminists have found in the witch a figure who justifies and defines their own identities. Examining texts from colonial narratives to court masques, Purkiss composes this fascinating study which goes far beyond the simple exploration of the figure..
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Squires to Knights
Today's families, communities, churches and nation bear little resemblance to those of yesteryear The onslaught of cultural changes has strained our society beyond its limits. Overwhelming evidence points to the vacuum of authentic manhood as a major cause of these issues. Tomorrow's hope for authentic manhood rests in today's boys. Today's boys need faithful men! They need changed men! They need men equipped to model, teach and mentor. In these pages you will find information and inspiration. And you will discover a strategy for bestowing a vision of Christ-centered manhood to your sons, fatherless boys and all young men. Jeff has been coach, Scoutmaster, teacher, and counselor for numerous boys and young men. Beginning shortly after his son, Brian's, thirteenth birthday, he has also been leading and teaching in mentoring groups for young men. Brian is now eighteen years old, knows Jesus Christ as his Lord, is strong and courageous in his faith and his identity as a man, has a sound Christian world view and is prepared to pursue God's calling for him in life. This is Jeff's prayer for all young men. Jeff has also taught various classes for parents of boys and has developed a strategy for equipping men to mentor their sons, fatherless boys and all young men. He also founded Squires2Knights Ministries, offering resources for Christ-centered mentorship by fathers, coaches, Scoutmasters and mentors of all kinds. Jeff has been married to his wife, Lynn, for 23 years and has two teenage children, Brian and Kristen..
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At the Bottom of the Garden: A Dark History of Fairies, Hobgoblins, Nymphs, and Other Troublesome Things
At the Bottom of the Garden is a history of fairies from the ancient world to the present Steeped in folklore and fantasy, it is a rich and diverse account of the part that fairies and fairy stories have played in culture and society. The pretty pastel world of gauzy-winged things who grant wishes and make dreams come true—as brought to you by Disney's fairies flitting across a woodland glade, or Tinkerbell's magic wand—is predated by a darker, denser world of gorgons, goblins, and gellos; the ancient antecedents of Shakespeare's mischievous Puck or J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan. For, as Diane Purkiss explains in this engrossing history, ancient fairies were born of fear: fear of the dark, of death, and of other great rites of passage, birth and sex. To understand the importance of these early fairies to pre-industrial peoples, we need to recover that sense of dread. This book begins with the earliest manifestations of fairies in ancient civilizations of the Mediterranean. The child-killing demons and nymphs of these cultures are the joint ancestors of the medieval fairies of northern Europe, when fairy figures provided a bridge between the secular and the sacred. Fairies abducted babies and virgins, spirited away young men who were seduced by fairy queens and remained suspended in liminal states. Tamed by Shakespeare's view of the spirit world, Victorian fairies fluttered across the theater stage and the pages of children's books to reappear a century later as detergent trade marks and alien abductors. In learning about these often strange and mysterious creatures, we learn something about ourselvesour fears and our desires. "Fascinating . . . . Rigorously researched . . . . Highly recommended"
Choice, Nov. 2001.
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Renaissance Women: The Plays of Elizabeth Cary : The Poems of Aemilia Lanyer (Pickering Women's Classics)
This volume brings together two of the earliest women writers Elizabeth Cary's (1585-1639) "The Tragedie of Mariam" is one of the first in English known to be the work of a woman writer. Aemilia Lanyer (1569-1645) came from a class of artisans and civil servants dependant on court and aristocratic patronage. She wrote professionally, though only the strongly feminist "Salve Deus Rex Judaorum" (1611) was published..
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