Pilgrim shrines were places of healing, holiness, and truth in early modern France. By analyzing the creation of these pilgrim shrines as natural, legendary, and historic places whose authority provided a new foundation for post-Reformation Catholic life, Virginia Reinburg examines the impact of the Reformation and religious wars on French society and the French landscape. Divided into two parts, Part I offers detailed studies of the shrines of Sainte-Reine, Notre-Dame du Puy, Notre-Dame de Garaison, and Notre-Dame de Betharram, showing how nature, antiquity, and images inspired enthusiasm among pilgrims. These chapters also show that the category of 'pilgrim' included a wide variety of motivations, beliefs, and acts. Part II recounts how shrine chaplains authored books employing history, myth, and archives in an attempt to prove that the shrines were authentic, and to show that the truths they exemplified were beyond dispute.

Pilgrim shrines were places of healing, holiness, and truth in early modern France. This book explains how this came about.

A collection of comics stories built around the magical locations of animated feature films from Disney and Pixar. Visit castles, oceans, jungles, circuses, cities, deserts, and more--set before, during, and after the films! Disney invites you to take a tour through the myriad places you know and love--from the castles of the Disney Princesses to the diverse cities across the Disney film worlds. Run wild through the jungle, then dive deep into the ocean, cross the warm savannah, and drop into amazing cities! Slide into the kingdom of Arendelle and witness the strength of sisters as you follow Anna and Elsa from childhood to adulthood. Venture through the world of Disney and Pixar animation--you won't believe who you'll run into: Peter Pan, Simba, Dumbo, Stitch, the Aristocats, Wall-E, Nemo, Mike and Sulley, and many more! Marvel at the glorious castles of Disney's Princesses and follow a day in each of their unique lives! Choose your stops and take a moment to enjoy the sights around you in the wonderful worlds of Disney. This collection is a fun assortment of original Disney stories from Disney Frozen, classic Disney animated films such as Peter Pan, 101 Dalmatians, The Lion King, Robin Hood, and Zootopia, beloved Pixar films such as Monsters, Inc., Finding Nemo, Up, and Wall-E, and stories featuring each of the Disney Princesses and the places they call home!

This book addresses the narrative construction of places, the relationship between tradition communities and their environments, the supernatural dimensions of cultural landscapes and wilderness as they are manifested in European folklore and in early literary sources, such as the Old Norse sagas. The first section “Explorations in Place-Lore” discusses cursed and sacred places, churches, graveyards, haunted houses, cemeteries, grave mounds, hill forts, and other tradition dominants in the micro-geography of the Nordic and Baltic countries, both retrospectively and from synchronous perspectives. The supernaturalisation of places appears as a socially embedded set of practices that involves storytelling and ritual behaviour. Articles show, how places accumulate meanings as they are layered by stories and how this shared knowledge about environments can actualise in personal experiences. Articles in the second section “Regional Variation, Environment and Spatial Dimensions” address ecotypes, milieu-morphological adaptation in Nordic and Baltic-Finnic folklores, and the active role of tradition bearers in shaping beliefs about nature as well as attitudes towards the environment. The meaning of places and spatial distance as the marker of otherness and sacrality in Old Norse sagas is also discussed here. The third section of the book “Traditions and Histories Reconsidered” addresses major developments within the European social histories and mentalities. It scrutinizes the history of folkloristics, its geopolitical dimensions and its connection with nation building, as well as looking at constructions of the concepts Baltic, Nordic and Celtic. It also sheds light on the social base of folklore and examines vernacular views toward legendry and the supernatural.

Soon after moving to Maui in 1983, Michelle Anderson met Maui County historian Inez Ashdown, who was then 83 years old. They hit it off immediately and Michelle became Mrs. Ashdown's close companion for the remainder of her life. She took Mrs. Ashdown holo-holo all across Maui and escorted her to many events and to her weekly show at the old Kapalua Bay Hotel. Michelle developed a deep appreciation for the wahi pana (storied places) of Maui during these outings with Mrs. Ashdown, who regaled her with stories of the distant past in every district they visited. Michelle came to realize that many of her Hawaiian friends had never heard these stories, so she promised Mrs. Ashdown that one day she would write about Maui's wahi pana to safeguard it for future generations.

What a terrible thing at a time like this: to own a house, and the trees around it. Janet sat rigid in her seat. The plane lifted from the city and her house fell away, consumed by the other houses. Janet worried about her own particular garden and her emptied refrigerator and her lamps that had been timed to come on at six. So begins "Mycenae," a story in The High Places, Fiona McFarlane's first story collection. Her stories skip across continents, eras, and genres to chart the borderlands of emotional life. In "Mycenae," she describes a middle-aged couple's disastrous vacation with old friends. In "Good News for Modern Man," a scientist lives on a small island with only a colossal squid and the ghost of Charles Darwin for company. And in the title story, an Australian farmer turns to Old Testament methods to relieve a fatal drought. Each story explores what Flannery O'Connor called "mystery and manners." The collection dissects the feelings--longing, contempt, love, fear--that animate our existence and hints at a reality beyond the smallness of our lives. Salon's Laura Miller called McFarlane's The Night Guest "a novel of uncanny emotional penetration . . . How could anyone so young portray so persuasively what it feels like to look back on a lot more life than you can see in front of you?" The High Places is further evidence of McFarlane's preternatural talent, a debut collection that reads like the selected works of a literary great.

A collection of comics stories built around the magical locations of animated feature films from Disney and Pixar. Visit castles, oceans, jungles, circuses, cities, deserts, and more--set before, during, and after the films! Disney invites you to take a tour through the myriad places you know and love--from the castles of the Disney Princesses to the diverse cities across the Disney film worlds. Run wild through the jungle, then dive deep into the ocean, cross the warm savannah, and drop into amazing cities! Slide into the kingdom of Arendelle and witness the strength of sisters as you follow Anna and Elsa from childhood to adulthood. Venture through the world of Disney and Pixar animation--you won't believe who you'll run into: Peter Pan, Simba, Dumbo, Stitch, the Aristocats, Wall-E, Nemo, Mike and Sulley, and many more! Marvel at the glorious castles of Disney's Princesses and follow a day in each of their unique lives! Choose your stops and take a moment to enjoy the sights around you in the wonderful worlds of Disney. This collection is a fun assortment of original Disney stories from Disney Frozen, classic Disney animated films such as Peter Pan, 101 Dalmatians, The Lion King, Robin Hood, and Zootopia, beloved Pixar films such as Monsters, Inc., Finding Nemo, Up, and Wall-E, and stories featuring each of the Disney Princesses and the places they call home!

Places Made After Their Stories shows how the emotional geographies we carry inside us and the ecstatic desire at the heart of democratic community-making can come together to inform contemporary landscape and urban design. Using Australian case studies of public space design from Alice Springs to Perth and Melbourne. Paul Carter describes a new approach to place-making in which topography and choreography fuse. He counters the symbolic neglect of functionalist design with a brilliant account of poetic and graphic techniques developed to materialize ambience. Carter describes a practice of sense-making and form-making that embodies fundamental gestures of welcome, arrangement, and exchange in the built setting.

Sacred Places.