On Voyages to Other Worlds in Medieval Ireland: Research and Texts
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On Voyages to Other Worlds in Medieval Ireland: Research and Texts
19.99 €
The publication is based on commented translations of stories about visits to the other world in the medieval Irish tradition, including a scholarly translation of the famous Latin "Voyage of Saint Brendan", published in Russian for the first time. A number of other texts related to the monastic and Christian tradition, but undoubtedly adjacent to the legends of pagan Ancient Ireland, show the continuity of the system of images and motifs.
The published studies were prepared specifically for this publication and pursue the same goal: to show the continuity of traditions. The theme of visits to the Other World - as a world simultaneously posthumous and parallel to the earthly one - appears in them as a network of intertwined motifs that find their parallels both with ancient mythology and with legends about the search for the promised land of the early Christian tradition. The localization of the Other World in medieval Ireland is thus presented as a philosophical problem.
The published studies were prepared specifically for this publication and pursue the same goal: to show the continuity of traditions. The theme of visits to the Other World - as a world simultaneously posthumous and parallel to the earthly one - appears in them as a network of intertwined motifs that find their parallels both with ancient mythology and with legends about the search for the promised land of the early Christian tradition. The localization of the Other World in medieval Ireland is thus presented as a philosophical problem.
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