Ireland's immortals : a history of the gods of Irish myth

• Material Type: 図書
• ISBN: 9780691157313 hardcover; 0691157316 hardcover
• Title: Ireland's immortals : a history of the gods of Irish myth
• Author/Editor: Mark Williams.
• Author Heading: Williams, M. A. (Mark Andrew), 1980-
• Publication, Distribution, etc.: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press (出版); Oxford : Princeton University Press (出版)
• Publication Date: [2016]; 著作権日付 : ©2016
• Publication Date (W3CDTF): 2016
• Extent: xxx, 578 pages
• Size: 24 cm
• Place of Publication (Country Code): US
• Text Language Code: eng
• Genre/Form Terms: History.
• Content Type: text
• Media Type: unmediated
• Carrier Type: volume
• Subject Heading: Mythology, Celtic--Ireland.; Mythology, Celtic.; Religion.; Ireland--Religion--History.; Ireland.
• LCC: BL980.I7
• DDC: 299/.16113
• NDLC: HK84
• Target Audience: 一般
• Note (Content): Ireland's Immortals tells the story of one of the world's great mythologies. The first account of the gods of Irish myth to take in the whole sweep of Irish literature in both the nation's languages, the book describes how Ireland's pagan divinities were transformed into literary characters in the medieval Christian era--and how they were recast again during the Celtic Revival of the late-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. A lively narrative of supernatural beings and their fascinating and sometimes bizarre stories, Mark Williams's comprehensive history traces how these gods - known as the Tuatha De Danann - have shifted shape across the centuries, from Iron Age cult to medieval saga to today's young-adult fiction. We meet the heroic Lug; the Morrigan, crow goddess of battle; the fire goddess Brigit, who moonlights as a Christian saint; the mist-cloaked sea god Manannan mac Lir; and the ageless fairies who inspired J.R.R. Tolkien's immortal elves. Medieval clerics speculated that the Irish divinities might be devils, angels, or enchanters. W. B. Yeats invoked them to reimagine the national condition, while his friend George Russell beheld them in visions and understood them to be local versions of Hindu deities. The book also tells how the Scots repackaged Ireland's divine beings as the gods of the Gael on both sides of the sea--and how Irish mythology continues to influence popular culture far beyond Ireland.
• Note (Bibliography): Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Holding library: 国立国会図書館
• Call No.: HK84-B11
• Data Provider (Database): 国立国会図書館 : 国立国会図書館蔵書; https://ndlsearch.ndl.go.jp
• Bibliographic ID (NDL): 027652647; http://id.ndl.go.jp/bib/027652647
• LC Control Number: 2015045004; https://lccn.loc.gov/2015045004
• OCLC No.: 951724639; https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/951724639
• Cataloging Rule: RDA
• Bibliographic Record Category (NDL): 211

• Contents: Hidden beginnings: from cult to conversionEarthly gods: pagan deities, Christian meaningsDivine culture: exemplary gods and the mythological cycle...