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Gods, Heroes, & Kings: The Battle For Mythic Britain, Christopher R. Fee, David A. Leeming Mar 2004

Gods, Heroes, & Kings: The Battle For Mythic Britain, Christopher R. Fee, David A. Leeming

Gettysburg College Faculty Books

The islands of Britain have been a crossroads of gods, heroes, and kings-those of flesh as well as those of myth-for thousands of years. Successive waves of invasion brought distinctive legends, rites, and beliefs. The ancient Celts displaced earlier indigenous peoples, only to find themselves displaced in turn by the Romans, who then abandoned the islands to Germanic tribes, a people themselves nearly overcome in time by an influx of Scandinavians. With each wave of invaders came a battle for the mythic mind of the Isles as the newcomer's belief system met with the existing systems of gods, legends, and …


The Pitchman In Print: Oral Performance Art In Text And Context, Joseph Ugoretz Jan 2000

The Pitchman In Print: Oral Performance Art In Text And Context, Joseph Ugoretz

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Oral performance art, patterned performative speech for an audience, is perhaps the oldest and most ubiquitous human art form. Specific instances of this art include the performances of griots and guslars, troubadors and shamans, as well as rappers and riddlers, preachers and politicians. While this art form is by definition oral, it is also the case that, frequently, literary art has represented oral performance art. There is written art which depicts oral art, which describes it, appropriates it, criticizes and co‑opts it.

In this dissertation, I define oral performance art as constituting a separate and unique artistic genre, one which …


Review Of Bibliographic Access To Medieval And Renaissance Manuscripts: A Survey Of Computerized Data Bases And Information Service, Fred W. Jenkins Apr 1993

Review Of Bibliographic Access To Medieval And Renaissance Manuscripts: A Survey Of Computerized Data Bases And Information Service, Fred W. Jenkins

Roesch Library Faculty Publications

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Lucy Winton Mcvitty Memorial Collection Of Manuscripts, Incunabula, And Books Related To The History Of Printing And The Study Of Incunabula., Hollins College, Fishburn Library (Hollins College) Jan 1943

Lucy Winton Mcvitty Memorial Collection Of Manuscripts, Incunabula, And Books Related To The History Of Printing And The Study Of Incunabula., Hollins College, Fishburn Library (Hollins College)

Articles about Hollins and Special Collections

The manuscripts, incunabula, and books related to printing and the study of incunabula entered in the catalog were presented to Hollins College in January, 1943, by Mr. Samuel Herbert McVitty of Ridgewood Farm, Salem, Virginia. The gift was presented in memory of the donor's wife, Lucy Winton McVitty, who was a trustee of the College from December 30, 1926, until her death on August 7, 1941.