Medievalists.net » Fairies http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Mon, 07 Dec 2015 05:01:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 Blood beliefs in early modern Europe http://www.medievalists.net/2013/06/29/blood-beliefs-in-early-modern-europe/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/06/29/blood-beliefs-in-early-modern-europe/#comments Sun, 30 Jun 2013 00:54:43 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=41855 This thesis focuses on the significance of blood and the perception of the body in both learned and popular culture in order to investigate problems of identity and social exclusion in early modern Europe.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2013/06/29/blood-beliefs-in-early-modern-europe/feed/ 0 Folk narratives and legends as sources of widespread idioms: Toward a Lexicon of Common Figurative Units http://www.medievalists.net/2012/03/18/folk-narratives-and-legends-as-sources-of-widespread-idioms-toward-a-lexicon-of-common-figurative-units/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/03/18/folk-narratives-and-legends-as-sources-of-widespread-idioms-toward-a-lexicon-of-common-figurative-units/#comments Sun, 18 Mar 2012 21:06:20 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=30273 On the one hand, stories (particularly fables) have been de- rived from already existing proverbs, from antiquity up to early modern times. On the other hand, a story in its summarised form can live on in a proverb or an idiom, even if the knowledge of this story has been forgotten for a long time.

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