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This ambitious and vivid study in six volumes explores the journey of a single, electrifying story, from its first incarnation in a medieval French poem through its prolific rebirth in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The Juggler of Notre Dame tells how an entertainer abandons the world to join a monastery, but is suspected of blasphemy after dancing his devotion before a statue of the Madonna in the crypt; he is saved when the statue, delighted by his skill, miraculously comes to life. Jan Ziolkowski tracks the poem from its medieval roots to its rediscovery in late nineteenth-century Paris, before its translation into English in Britain and the United States. The visual influence of...
يحتفظ غجر إسبانيا عبر ذاكرة شيوخهم بالعديد من الحكايات التي عبرت أزمنة ساحقة لتصل لنا عبر هذا الكتاب والذي يضم 76حكاية تتفاوت في أهميتها وطولها، وقد قسمها محققها وجامعها إلى أقسام عدة منها: الحكايات الملحمية، الحكايات المدهشة، حكايات الصراع من أجل البقاء، حكايات البحث عن الذهب، حكايات الليالي الطويلة، حكايات الإيمان بالمعتقدات وأخيراً حكايات الأحاجي المفيدة. نتعرف من خلال هذه الأ...
'Wall to Wall: Law as Culture in Latin America and Spain' comprises interventions from a wide array of scholars based in the US, Spain, and Latin America, exploring the encounter of Hispanophone cultures and the law. Its contributors delineate a fraught relationship of complicity, negotiation, and outright confrontation covering five centuries and a truly global landscape, from Inquisitorial processes at the onset of the Spanish Empire to last-ditch plans to preserve it in the 19th century Philippines, to the challenges to contemporary articulations of the nation-state in Catalonia. Beyond single, specialized time-period and national cultures, 'Wall to Wall' embraces and showcases the hetero...
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Dieses umfassende Nachschlagewerk bündelt die Ergebnisse von fast zwei Jahrhunderten internationaler Forschung im Bereich volkstümlicher Erzähltradition. Die Autoren vergleichen die reichen Sammelbestände mündlich und schriftlich überlieferter Erzählungen aus den verschiedensten Ethnien und zeigen die sozialen, historischen, geistigen und religiösen Hintergründe auf.