Full Product Details
Author: Karen Ralls MacLeod
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Imprint: Polygon at Edinburgh University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.60cm
, Height: 2.30cm
, Length: 23.40cm
Weight: 0.279kg
ISBN: 9781902930091
ISBN 10: 1902930096
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 01 January 2000
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Out of Print
Availability: Awaiting stock
Reviews
As an encyclopaedic volume of references to its subject matter, this book will find a welcome audience amongst specialists who focus their studies on musical and otherwordly lore. This is a fascinating study of an important and neglected theme in Celtic literature and religion. Meticulously researched and sensitively written, it highlights the importance attached to music in both pre-Christian and early Christian Ireland and Scotland and its particular association with the otherworld. -- Dr Ian Bradley This scholarly and well-written book ! will interest anyone concerned with the interaction of music and spirituality as well as the recovery of the Celtic heritage in our time. A fascinating study which is highly recommended. As an encyclopaedic volume of references to its subject matter, this book will find a welcome audience amongst specialists who focus their studies on musical and otherwordly lore. This is a fascinating study of an important and neglected theme in Celtic literature and religion. Meticulously researched and sensitively written, it highlights the importance attached to music in both pre-Christian and early Christian Ireland and Scotland and its particular association with the otherworld. This scholarly and well-written book ! will interest anyone concerned with the interaction of music and spirituality as well as the recovery of the Celtic heritage in our time. A fascinating study which is highly recommended.
As an encyclopaedic volume of references to its subject matter, this book will find a welcome audience amongst specialists who focus their studies on musical and otherwordly lore. This is a fascinating study of an important and neglected theme in Celtic literature and religion. Meticulously researched and sensitively written, it highlights the importance attached to music in both pre-Christian and early Christian Ireland and Scotland and its particular association with the otherworld. -- Dr Ian Bradley This scholarly and well-written book ! will interest anyone concerned with the interaction of music and spirituality as well as the recovery of the Celtic heritage in our time. A fascinating study which is highly recommended. As an encyclopaedic volume of references to its subject matter, this book will find a welcome audience amongst specialists who focus their studies on musical and otherwordly lore. This is a fascinating study of an important and neglected theme in Celtic literature and religion. Meticulously researched and sensitively written, it highlights the importance attached to music in both pre-Christian and early Christian Ireland and Scotland and its particular association with the otherworld. This scholarly and well-written book ! will interest anyone concerned with the interaction of music and spirituality as well as the recovery of the Celtic heritage in our time. A fascinating study which is highly recommended.
Author Information
Karen Ralls-MacLeod is postdoctoral fellow in the Celtic department at the University of Edinburgh.
