Monthly Archives: June, 2011
New Essay Up At Celtic Scholar’s World
I’ve just updated my website with a new essay on good and bad sources of information for research. Please see my website at : Advice – A Short Discussion Of Sources
Death, War, And Sacrifice: Studies in Ideology and Practice by Brude Lincoln
Title: Death, War, And Sacrifice Author : Bruce Lincoln with a Forward by Wendy Doniger Copyright : 1991 Publisher : The University of Chicago Press Forma t: Paperback Pages : 289 Synopsis : One of the world’s leading specialists in Indo-European religion and society, Bruce Lincoln expresses in these essays his severe doubts about the existence of a much-hypothesized prototypical Indo-European religion. … Part I deals with matters “Indo-European” in a relatively unproblematized way, exploring a set of haunting images that recur in descriptions of the Otherworld from many cultures.
A New Essay up at Celtic Scholar’s World
I have just added a new essay at my site Celtic Scholar’s World. It is entitled A Short Introduction to the Comparative Method, and it is a short essay that is tries to define it. This will be the first in a series (I hope).
How To Kill A Dragon – Aspects of Indo-European Poetics by Calvert Watkins
Title: How to Kill a Dragon: Aspects of Indo-European Poetics Author: Calvert Watkins Format: Paperback Pages: 613 Synopsis: In How to Kill a Dragon Calvert Watkins follows the continuum of poetic formulae in Indo-European languages, from Old Hittite to medieval Irish. Review: This book is a masterwork from one of the last of the Indo-European …
Facing The Ocean: The Atlantic and Its Peoples by Barry Cunliffe
Basic Book Information Title: Facing the Ocean: The Atlantic and Its Peoples 8000 BC-AD 1500 Binding: Hardcover Publishing Date: June 28th 2001 Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA Page Numbers: 608 pages ISBN Number: 0199240191 (ISBN13: 9780199240197) Synopsis: In this highly illustrated book Barry Cunliffe focuses on the western rim of Europe–the Atlantic facade–an area stretching …
