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Fiery shapes : celestial portents and astrology in Ireland and Wales 700-1700 / Mark Williams.

Title
Fiery shapes : celestial portents and astrology in Ireland and Wales 700-1700 / Mark Williams.
Author
Williams, M. A. (Mark Andrew), 1980-
Publication
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.

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Description
xxx, 218 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
Summary
"The English Romance in Time Transforming Motifs from Geoffrey of Monmouth to the Death of Shakespeare Helen Cooper" "T̀he English Romance in Time is a scholarly and engagingly written account of a genre, as suitable for a student as for an academic audience. It is important and innovative because of the way it uses romance to expose the medieval contribution to the early modern world.' --Alex Davis, Times Higher Education Supplement"--Jacket.
Uniform Title
University press scholarship online.
Subject
  • Astrology, Celtic
  • Astrology, Celtic
  • Druids and druidism
  • Druids and druidism
  • Irish literature
  • Irish literature > Middle Irish
  • Irish literature > Middle Irish, 1100-1550 > History and criticism
  • Irish literature > To 1100 > History and criticism
  • Omens
  • Omens
  • To 1550
  • Welsh literature
  • Welsh literature > To 1550 > History and criticism
Genre/Form
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-204) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Machine generated contents note: 1.Celestial portents and apocalypticism in medieval Ireland -- 2.Druids, cloud-divination, and the portents of Antichrist -- 3.Taliesin and Geoffrey of Monmouth's astrological portents -- 4.Comets, portents, and astrology in late medieval Wales -- 5.Morgan Llwyd and the spiritualization of astrology.
ISBN
  • 9780199571840
  • 0199571848
LCCN
2010930299