Tales of magic, tales in print Helle Sjøvaag

Tales of magic, tales in print Helle SjøvaagSince the beginning of the nineteenth century folklorists, and the general public in their wake, have assumed the orality of fairy tales. Only lately have more and more specialists been arguing in favour of at least an interdependence between oral and printed distribution of stories. This book takes an extreme position in that debate: as far as Tales of magic is concerned, the initial transmission proceded exclusively through prints. From a historical

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such a configuration has been inseparable from our ideas about divinity and the sacred

identifying a more profound and general transition from reliance on gossip and personal information to new statistical forms of knowledge

the exploitation of migrant workers

This book covers the social and economic history of Ireland from the aftermath of the famine to the years leading up to Home Rule

Trying desperately to find a place in this social circle

considered rather a phenomenon of theatrical history than a pre-eminent piece of dramatic writing

unified by their explication of the key elements of the cultural history of the period 1510–80 the book unravels the political

A collection of essays on politics and judicial power in Ireland

gender history and labour history

The truism that history is written by its winners reflects the literature about how the bomb came about

and of their disastrous engagement with the mainstream Left