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Airy Nothings : Imagining the Otherworld of Faerie from the Middle Ages to the Age of Reason : essays in honour of Alasdair A. MacDonald
- Title
- Airy Nothings : Imagining the Otherworld of Faerie from the Middle Ages to the Age of Reason : essays in honour of Alasdair A. MacDonald / edited by Karin E. Olsen and Jan R. Veenstra.
- Publication
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2014.
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- Description
- xxii, 249 pages : some color illustrations; 25 cm
- Summary
- "Ever 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 fueled 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."--Back cover.
- Series Statement
- Brill's Studies in Intellectual History, 0920-8607 ; volume 222
- Uniform Title
- Brill's studies in intellectual history ; v. 222.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Call Number
- JFE 16-2694
- ISBN
- 9789004245518
- 9004245510
- 9789004258235 (canceled/invalid)
- 900425823X (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2013034667
- OCLC
- 858940118
- Title
- Airy Nothings : Imagining the Otherworld of Faerie from the Middle Ages to the Age of Reason : essays in honour of Alasdair A. MacDonald / edited by Karin E. Olsen and Jan R. Veenstra.
- Publisher
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2014.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Brill's Studies in Intellectual History, 0920-8607 ; volume 222Brill's studies in intellectual history ; v. 222.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Olsen, K. E. (Karin E.)Veenstra, Jan R., 1939-MacDonald, A. A. (Alasdair A.), honouree.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 16-2694