Carolyne Larrington Bücher

›Game of Thrones‹ nimmt das Mittelalter als Vorbild und erschafft daraus eine eigene Welt. Die erfolgreichen Fantasyromane und die gleichnamige Serie sind Gegenstand heftiger Diskussionen in den Medien. Millionen von Fans in aller Welt entwickeln zahllose Theorien, wie die Geschichte wohl weitergehen wird. Doch trotz all dem hat bisher kein Buch verraten, wie George R. R. Martin sein erstaunliches Universum geschaffen hat. Während Carolyne Larrington Romane und Fernsehserie zugleich im Blick hält, erkundet sie jene mittelalterliche Welt aus Rivalitäten und Krieg, Liebe und Verrat, Gier und Macht, deren Inbegriff die Rosenkriege in England bilden. Außerdem vertieft sie sich unter anderem in die Themen Wappen, Riesen, Drachen und Schattenwölfe in Texten des Mittelalters. Sie betrachtet Raben, alte Götter und Wehrholz in den nordischen Mythen ebenso wie den bizarren, exotischen Orient auf dem Ostkontinent Essos. Von den Weißen Wanderern bis zur Roten Frau, von Casterlystein bis zum Zitternden Meer reicht ihr Streifzug. Das Ergebnis ist ein unentbehrlicher Reiseführer in die bedeutendste Schöpfung der Fantasyliteratur des 21. Jahrhunderts.

Die Frauensicht der Menschheitsmythen. Die Autorinnen berufen sich auf die Tradition kritischer Mytheninterpretation, die Geschlechterdifferenz als zentrale Kategorie begreift

Wer sind die nordischen Götter und Helden? Was wissen wir über sie? Welche Rolle spielen sie in den Mythen, aus denen wir sie auch heute noch kennen? Carolyne Larrington leitet den Leser in diesem großartigen Überblick durch die schillernde und packende Welt der Asen, Wanen und Riesen, mitsamt ihren furchteinflößenden Kreaturen und tapferen Helden.

Who were the mysterious and seductive sorceresses whose power underlay Arthur's Camelot?

A wideranging and groundbreaking investigation of the sibling relationship as shown in European literature, from 500 to 1500.

This collection of Norse-Icelandic mythological and heroic poetry contains the greater narratives of the creation of the world and the coming of Ragnarok, the Doom of the Gods.

Beyond its housing estates and identikit high streets there is another Britain. This is the Britain of mist-drenched forests and unpredictable sea-frets: of wraith-like fog banks, druidic mistletoe and peculiar creatures that lurk, half-unseen, in the undergrowth, tantalising and teasing just at the periphery of human vision. How have the remarkably persistent folkloric traditions of the British Isles formed and been formed by the identities and psyches of those who inhabit them? In her sparkling new history, Carolyne Larrington explores the diverse ways in which a myriad of imaginary and fantastical beings has moulded the cultural history of the nation. Fairies, elves and goblins here tread purposefully, sometimes malignly, over an eerie, preternatural landscape that also conceals brownies, selkies, trows, knockers, boggarts, land-wights, Jack o'Lanterns, Bargests, the sinister Nuckelavee, or water-horse, and even Black Shuck: terrifying hell-hound of the Norfolk coast with eyes of burning coal. Focusing on liminal points where the boundaries between this world and that of the supernatural grow thin - those marginal tide-banks, saltmarshes, floodplains, moors and rock-pools wherein mystery lies - the author shows how mythologies of mermen, Green Men and Wild Men have helped and continue to help human beings deal with such ubiquitous concerns as love and lust, loss and death and continuity and change. -- From publisher's website

'All men must die': or 'Valar Morghulis', as the traditional Essos greeting is rendered in High Valyrian. And die they do – in prodigious numbers; in imaginatively varied and gruesome ways; and often in terror within the viciously unpredictable world that is HBO's sensational evocation of Game of Thrones. Epic in scope and in imaginative breadth, the stories that are brought to life tell of the dramatic rise and fall of nations, the brutal sweeping away of old orders and the advent of new autarchs in the eternal quest for dominion.Yet, as this book reveals, many potent and intimate narratives of love and passion can be found within these grand landscapes of heroism, honour and death. They focus on strong relationships between women and family, as well as among the anti-heroes, the 'cripples, bastards and broken things'. In this vital follow-up to Winter Is Coming (2015), acclaimed medievalist Carolyne Larrington explores themes of power, blood-kin, lust and sex in order to draw entirely fresh meanings out of the show of the century.

Carolyne Larrington has gathered together a uniquely comprehensive collection of writing by, for and about medieval women, spanning one thousand years and Europe from Iceland to Byzantiu. The extracts are arranged thematically, dealing with the central areas of medieval women's lives and their relation to social and cultural institutions. Each section is contextualised with a brief historical introduction, and the materials span literary, historical, theological and other narrative and imaginative writing. The writings here uncover and confound the stereotype of the medieval woman as lady or virgin by demonstrating the different roles and meanings that the sign of woman occupied in the imaginative space of the medieval period. Larrington's clear and accessible editorial material and the modern English translations of all the extracts mean this work is ideally suited for students. Women and Writing in Early Europe: A Sourcebook also contains an extensive and fully up-to-date bibliography, making it not only essential reading for undergraduates and post graduates but also a valuable tool for scholars.