Tristan and Isolt

Tristan and Isolt
Author: Gertrude Schoepperle Loomis
Publisher:
Total Pages: 618
Release: 1913
Genre: Tristan (Legend)
ISBN:

A Cheerful and Comfortable Faith

A Cheerful and Comfortable Faith
Author: Lauren F. Winner
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 285
Release: 2010-01-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0300124694

"A very satisfying book, persuasive in showing how material culture and household devotion are central to the workings of `lived' Anglicanism in eighteenth-century Virginia." David D. Hall, Harvard Divinity School.

At Day's Close: Night in Times Past

At Day's Close: Night in Times Past
Author: A. Roger Ekirch
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 481
Release: 2006-10-17
Genre: History
ISBN: 0393329011

Beautifully illuminated by a color insert and with black-and-white illustrations throughout, this compelling narrative of night is panoramic in scope yet fashioned on an intimate scale and enriched by personal stories.

Wise Words (RLE Folklore)

Wise Words (RLE Folklore)
Author: Wolfgang Mieder
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 464
Release: 2015-02-11
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1317549236

The twenty essays that comprise this book, which was first published in 1994, were written by leading paremiologists and folklorists from Africa, Canada, Great Britain, Germany and the US. They represent the best scholarship on proverbs in the English language, and together they give an impressive overview of the fascinating advances in the field of paremiology.

The Bearer of Crazed and Venomous Fangs

The Bearer of Crazed and Venomous Fangs
Author: Vincent DiMarco
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 332
Release: 2014-03-10
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1491718943

For centuries prior to the development of an effective vaccination against rabies, the bite of a mad dog was linked to a horrific ailment marked by convulsions, an utter dread of swallowing liquids, uncontrollable thrashing, and even the tendency to bark and attempt to bite othersa horrid prelude to an agonizing death. Drawing on learned theories of medical practitioners and beliefs of the common people, The Bearer of Crazed and Venomous Fangs investigates the cultural mythology of the ailment known today as rabies. By exploring the cultural history of science, traditional belief, and folk medicine, it reveals the popular myths and learned delusions that came to define the disease. Among the arresting topics explored are the attribution of rabies to a worm beneath the tongue, the notion that the disease could arise spontaneously, the idea that it could be cured by the application to the wound of special stones or animal parts, and, if all else failed, the treatment of it by the suffocation of the human victim. Rich in detail and brimming with historical intrigue, The Bearer of Crazed and Venomous Fangs engages students of medicine and the history of science, veterinary studies, folklore, psychology, and anyone interested in how mankinds best friend could be thought of as its cruelest, fiercest enemy.