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The Real Middle-Earth: Magic and Mystery in the Dark Ages - Hardcover

Bates, Brian

 
9780283073533: The Real Middle-Earth: Magic and Mystery in the Dark Ages
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0283073535 ISBN 13: 9780283073533
Verlag: MacMillan, 2002

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An accessible. popular. intelligent history of the early English civilization on which Tolkien based his world of Lord of the Rings. Tolkien readily admitted that the concept of Middle-earth was not his own invention but an Old English term for the Dark Age world. It was always assumed, however, that the importance of magic in this world existed only in Tolkien's books. Now Professor Brian Bates reveals the vivid truth about this historical culture. The Anglo-Saxons and Vikings believed their universe was held together by an interlaced web of golden threads visible only to wizards, and at its centre was the realm of Middle-earth, peopled by humans but imbued with spiritual power.Drawing on the latest historical and archaological research, Brian Bates uncovers the real Middle-earth, which centred on England, its landscape a home to dragons, elves, dwarves and demons, where spells had real force. The Real Middle Earth is a compelling account of a Dark Age culture as magical, enchanting and compelling as Tolkien's fictional version.

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Brian Bates is a professor at the University of Brighton, and past chairman of psychology at the University of Sussex. Specializing in the use of deep imagination in tribal cultures, he directs a research programme and teaches an award-winning course in shamanic consciousness. His previous titles include the novel The Way of the Wyrd, an examination of the inner world of performance called The Way of the Actor, and The Human Face which he co-wrote with John Cleese.

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Verlag
MacMillan
Erscheinungsdatum
2002
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0283073535
ISBN 13 
9780283073533
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
320
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