{"product_id":"airy-nothings-imagining-the-otherworld-of-faerie-from-the-middle-ages-to-the-age-of-reason-essays-in-honour-of-alasdair-a-macdonald-9789004245518","title":"Airy Nothings: Imagining the Otherworld of Faerie from the Middle Ages to the Age of Reason: Essays in Honour of Alasdair A. MacDonald","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEver since the Middle Ages the Otherworld of Faerie has been the object of serious intellectual scrutiny. What science in the end dismissed as airy nothings was given a local habitation and a name by art. This book presents some of the main chapters from the history and tradition of otherworldly spirits and fairies in the folklore and literature of the British Isles and Northern Europe. In eleven contributions different experts deal with some of the main problems posed by the scholarly and artistic confrontation with the Otherworld, which not only fuelled the imagination, but also led to the ultimate redundancy of learned perceptions of that Otherworld as it was finally obfuscated by the clarity of an enlightened age.  Contributors include: Henk Dragstra, John Flood, Julian Goodare, Tette Hofstra, Robert Maslen, Richard North, Karin E. Olsen, David J. Parkinson, Rudolf Suntrup, Jan R. Veenstra, and Helen Wilcox.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction  Alasdair MacDonald: In Praise of Versatility  Notes on Contributors  List of Illustrations   Marlowe’s Ghost: The Second Report of Doctor John Faustus ROBERT W. MASLEN   Rhetorical Play in Cornelius Agrippa: The Declamation on the Nobility and Preeminence of the Female Sex  JOHN FLOOD  Ein Schwert in Frauenhand: Notizen zu einigen volkssprachigen Texten des Mittelalters  TETTE HOFSTRA  Female Voices from the Otherworld: The Role of Women in the Early Irish Echtrai KARIN E. OLSEN  Morgan le Fay and the Fairy Mound in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight  RICHARD NORTH  Cresseid ‘Beyond the Pale’  DAVID J. PARKINSON  Die Widersacher des allmächtigen Gottes: Teufel und Dämonen in den Concordantiae Caritatis des Ulrich von Lilienfeld  RUDOLF SUNTRUP   Boundaries of the Fairy Realm in Scotland  JULIAN GOODARE  ‘Bull-Begger’: An Early Modern Scare-Word  HENK DRAGSTRA  Shaggie Thighs and Aery Formes: Satyres and Faeries in Ben Jonson’s Oberon  HELEN WILCOX  Paracelsian Spirits in Pope’s Rape of the Lock  JAN R. VEENSTRA \t Index","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210635043159,"sku":"9789004245518","price":132.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/airy-nothings-imagining-the-otherworld-of-faerie-from-the-middle-ages-to-the-age-of-reason-essays-in-honour-of-alasdair-a-macdonald-9789004245518","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}