Bulfinch's Mythology: The Age of Chivalry / Legends of Charlemagne
10 best books like Bulfinch's Mythology: The Age of Chivalry / Legends of Charlemagne (Thomas Bulfinch): Heroes of the Dawn: Celtic Myth, The Lore of the Unicorn, Orkneyinga Saga: The History of the Earls of Orkney, Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas, The Time Falling Bodies Take To Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, A Treasury of Irish Myth, Legend and Folklore, The Pagan Book of Halloween: A Complete Guide to the Magick, Incantations, Recipes, Spells, and Lore, The Arthurian Legends, 1,000 Years of Irish Poetry, Selected Satires of Lucian
| Author | Fergus Fleming |
| ISBN | 0705421716 |
Generation after generation has passed down the ancient legend of a boy-king named Arthur who pulled a sword from stone, loved the beautiful Guinevere, and presided over the Round Table. And we still celebrate the ancient Celtic holy day of Samhain, only now we call it Halloween. The earth itself has...
| Author | Odell Shepard |
| ISBN | 0517371561 |
An exhaustive look at the historical record.
Those of you who expect fairy tales -- or even chivalric romance -- will be surprised. The documents are actually pretty much all "natural history" -- of the era, which obviously was dominated by hearsay and travelers tales. Also comparisions to...
Written around AD 1200 by an unnamed Icelandic author, the Orkneyinga Saga is an intriguing fusion of myth, legend and history. The only medieval chronicle to have Orkney as the central place of action, it tells of an era when the islands were still part of the Viking world, beginning with their conquest...
| Author | Hélène A. Guerber |
| ISBN | 0486273482 |
Over the centuries, Northern mythology has exerted much influence on Western customs, language, and literature. Its principal theme of the perpetual struggle of the beneficent forces of nature against the injurious, and its twin characteristics of dark tragedy and grim humor, tinge much European...
The Time Falling Bodies Take To Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture
| Author | William Irwin Thompson |
| ISBN | 0312160623 |
Oh my. This was my lightbulb book. I don't remember much except the notion- new to me ajt the time - that male archeologists saw those tiny stick figure men on the cave wall as lords of all they surveyed for a reason, but not reasonably. Seems so obvious now, but for me it was like having a science fiction story...
William Butler Yeats (pronounced /ˈjeɪts/) was an Irish poet and dramatist, and one of the foremost figures of 20th century literature. A pillar of both the Irish and British literary establishments, in his later years Yeats served as an Irish Senator for two terms. He was a driving force behind the...
The Pagan Book of Halloween: A Complete Guide to the Magick, Incantations, Recipes, Spells, and Lore
| Author | Gerina Dunwich |
| ISBN | 0140196161 |
For Pagans and witches, Halloween, or Samhain, is the most important and sacred holiday--a day to honor the dead and to celebrate the birth of a new year. The number of Wicca practitioners is rapidly growing--especially among young women--and popular media has embraced Paganism on television, in...
| Author | Richard Barber |
| ISBN | 0851151108 |
This book I got many years ago from Quarwood of all places. It's one of the books I own from John Entwistle's personal library, and it is an exceptionally beautiful book. It is worth five stars for the pictures alone, but the accompanying text makes it all even better.
The book is a broad survey...
| Author | Kathleen Hoagland |
| ISBN | 1568522355 |
This is a very long anthology that tries very hard to be comprehensive. As a resource for those interested in the history of Irish poetry it is quite useful (the subtitle is "The Gaelic and Anglo-Irish Poets from Pagan Times to the Present"). For scholars it has less utility as it is rather short on annotations...
| Author | Lucian of Samosata |
| ISBN | 0393004430 |
Lucian, born in Syria in the second century C.E., came to Greece at an early age and mastered its language and literature. He took up law, left it for public speaking, then turned to full-time writing, producing the wide range of subject matter and literary form which is represented in this collection.
A...
| Author | Arthur Quiller-Couch |
| ISBN | 0198121075 |
The Oxford Book of English Verse was first published in 1900 and it initiated the famous series of Oxford Books that has been running ever since. It quickly established itself as a classic anthology, equal to Palgrave's Golden Treasury in popularity and public recognition. Having sold half a million...
| Author | Geoffrey Ashe |
| ISBN | 0897332873 |
The story of Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table is the chief myth of Britain. But is it something more than myth? Solid facts have emerged through the recent work of archaeologists. This book examines the historical foundations of the Arthurian tradition, and then presents the results of excavations...
| Author | Unknown |
| ISBN | 0192835300 |
This collection is best reviewed as individual stories, which is after all what they are. Some of the characters and places are in common between the individual sagas but from a reader point I feel they are discrete.
Having read a few sagas I can say that the editors and translators are what make or...
| Author | Robert Bartlett |
| ISBN | 0500283338 |
The Medieval World Complete re-creates one of the great ages of European civilization through a sequence of spectacular images accompanied by a lively, informed commentary. Organized by topic and thoroughly cross-referenced, this comprehensive volume enables the reader to explore and understand...
The Romance of King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table
| Author | Thomas Malory |
| ISBN | 0517231360 |
From the Preface by Alfred W. Pollard:
"There is much repetition in the Morte d'Arthur as Malory left it. How often Sir Breuse sans Pitie played his ugly tricks, or Tristram rescued Palomides, or minor knights met at adventure and emulated their betters, it is not easy to count. I have tried to...
| Author | Alfred Perceval Graves |
| ISBN | 1859580173 |
Welcome to a world of wild banshees, leprechauns, mermaids, battle-tested kings, churchyard demons, and treasure-guarding cats. This is the world of the Irish fairy tale, a magical realm kept alive by generations of storytellers and their avid listeners. As Alfred Perceval Graves, author of the...
| Author | Richard Chase |
| ISBN | 0618346929 |
Note, Dec. 15, 2017: I edited this review just now to correct a minor typo.
As kids, most Americans are exposed, at one time or another, to a retelling of the tale of Jack and the Beanstalk. Some Americans are vaguely aware that this is a very old story, going back several centuries at least. But...
Sex Magic, Tantra & Tarot: The Way of the Secret Lover
| Author | Christopher S. Hyatt |
| ISBN | 1561840440 |
This book offers the student of Western Tantra the knowledge and inner truth that has been hidden from us since conception. This is a new and expanded edition wherein you will find a wealth of practical and passionate Tantric techniques utilizing the archetypal images of the Tarot. Nothing is held back....
| Author | Miranda Aldhouse-Green |
| ISBN | 0415057647 |
The Celtic World is a detailed and comprehensive study of the Celts from the first evidence of them in the archaeological and historical record to the early post-Roman period. The strength of this volume lies in its breadth - it looks at archaeology, language, literature, towns, warfare, rural life,...
| Author | Jeffrey Burton Russell |
Evil is an intrinsically fascinating topic. In Lucifer, Jeffrey Burton Russell continues his compelling study of the personification of evil in the figure of the Devil. The previous two volumes in this remarkable tertalogy--The Devil and Satan--trace the history of the concept of the devil comparatively...
The Crusades: Iron Men and Saints
| Author | Harold Lamb |
| ISBN | 1417906391 |
1930. With numerous illustrations. In this volume is told the story of the first crusaders. It begins with their setting out, and it ends with the death of the last survivor. Eight hundred and thirty-five years have passed since then, and the lines of these men are known to us only by the chronicles of their...
The World's Last Mysteries
| Author | Reader's Digest Association |
The World's Last Mysteries from Reader's Digest is an impressive coffee table book, which presents the reader with some of the most perplexing enigmas from the ancient civilizations. This lavishly illustrated title examines and presents the reader with some of the mysterious geographic locations...
Advaita Vedanta: A Philosophical Reconstruction
| Author | Eliot Deutsch |
| ISBN | 0824802713 |
Advaita Vedanta is the most important philosophical system in India. It involves a discipline of spiritual experience as well as a technical philosophy, and since the time of Samkara in the ninth century some of the greatest intellects in India have contributed to its development.
In...
