Cloven Country
Reaktion Books (Verlag)
978-1-78914-833-6 (ISBN)
According to legend, the English landscape – so calm on the surface – is really the Devil’s work. Cloven Country, now in paperback, tells of rocks hurled into place and valleys carved out by infernal labour. The Devil’s hideous strength laid down great roads in one night, and left scars everywhere as the hard stone melted like wax under those burning feet. With roots in medieval folklore, this is not the Satan of prayer, but a clumsy ogre, easily fooled by humankind. Jeremy Harte’s book is the first of its kind on the Devil in English folk legend and uncovers an assortment of mysterious stories from past centuries.
Jeremy Harte is curator of the Bourne Hall Museum at Epsom and Ewell. He is secretary of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society and created the Surrey Gypsy Archive. He is the author of Travellers through Time: A Gypsy History (Reaktion, 2023).
Introduction
1 His Work Undone: The Devil’s Ambitious Projects Fail
2 Down Tumbled the Stones: Landscapes Shaped by the Devil’s Hand
3 Have at Thee! Churches Shifted, Targeted and Raided by the Devil
4 There Stood the Stranger: Rash Deals and Binding Promises with the Devil
5 Off in a Sheet of Flame: Fighting the Devil and Escaping His Clutches
6 Neither Inside nor Outside: Raising the Devil and Laying Him Afterwards
7 Woman’s Wit Is Better than Man’s: Maidens and Mothers Beat the Devil
8 Amid the Shrieking of the Storm: The Devil Appears to Carry off Sinners
9 To Chase Forever: The Devil Is a Huntsman, and Souls Are His Prey
References
Bibliography
Photo Acknowledgements
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 26.08.2023 |
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| Zusatzinfo | 36 illustrations |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 129 x 198 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-78914-833-2 / 1789148332 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-78914-833-6 / 9781789148336 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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