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The Concept of the Goddess(1st Edition)
by Sandra Billington, Miranda Green, Samuel Pyeatt Menefee
Paperback, 206 Pages, Published 1998 by Routledge
ISBN-13: 978-0-415-19789-2, ISBN: 0-415-19789-9

"The Concept of the Goddess explores the function and nature of goddesses and their cults in many cultures, including:* Celtic* Roman* Norse* Caucasian* Japanese traditions.The contributors explore the reasons for the existence of so many goddesses in the mythology of patriarchal societies and show that goddesses have also assumed more masculine roles, with war, hunting and sovereignty being equally important aspects of their cults."






The Concept of the Goddess(1st Edition)
by Sandra Billington, Miranda Green, Samuel Pyeatt Menefee
Hardcover, 208 Pages, Published 1996 by Routledge
ISBN-13: 978-0-415-14421-6, ISBN: 0-415-14421-3

"The Concept of the Goddess explores the function and nature of goddesses and their cults in many cultures, including:* Celtic* Roman* Norse* Caucasian* Japanese traditions.The contributors explore the reasons for the existence of so many goddesses in the mythology of patriarchal societies and show that goddesses have also assumed more masculine roles, with war, hunting and sovereignty being equally important aspects of their cults."






The Concept of the Goddess
by Sandra Billington, Miranda J. Green
208 Pages, Published 1998 by Routledge
ISBN-13: 978-0-203-45638-5, ISBN: 0-203-45638-6

"Sandra Billington, Miranda Green. was herself involved in. Subjects have ranged from flower symbolism in German literature to the consecration ceremony of the Japanese emperor, from connections between dragons and saffron to funerary ..."






The Concept of the Goddess
by Sandra Billington, Miranda Green
Ebook, 208 Pages, Published 2002 by Routledge
ISBN-13: 978-1-134-64151-2, ISBN: 1-134-64151-6

"Juliette. Wood. The last ten years have seen an upsurge in the study of the feminine aspect of the sacred. Archaeologists, theologians, feminist critics, psychologists and popular writers have produced analyses of every type imaginable, and 'the Goddess' has become one of the buzz words of New Age, neo-pagan and certain femmist writers. By no means everything discussed here fits under the umbrella of the New Age: much of the schola ..."






The Concept of the Goddess
by Sandra Billington, Miranda Green
Ebook, 208 Pages, Published 2002 by Routledge
ISBN-13: 978-1-134-64152-9, ISBN: 1-134-64152-4

"One of the chief arguments against a single identity for Frigg and Freyja is that oftheir pedigrees: Frigg is the daughter of Fjörgynn, a god whose precise nature is unknown: de Vries suggests the probability that this name was a masculine doublet of the feminine Fjörgyn—a name given to þórr's mother, Earth. Alternatively it could have been the name of an earlier, perhaps preGermanic, thunder-god (de Vries 1956:II, 275). Frigg is a ..."






A Social History of the Fool
by Sandra Billington
160 Pages, Published 2015 by Faber & Faber
ISBN-13: 978-0-571-29999-7, ISBN: 0-571-29999-7

"Machyn, Henry, The diary of a resident in London, J.G. Nicols, ed. (London, 1848 ). Manchester Mercury, 18 May 1773. Marchant, Thomas, Diary 1714–1728, Sussex archaeological society publications, vol. 25 (1873). Mares, F.H. 'The origin of the figure called the Vice', Huntington Library Quarterly, 22 (1958) pp. 11 –29. Mask, The (1868). Mayer, David, Harlequin in his element (Harvard University press, 1969). Mayhew, Henry, London labo ..."






A Social History of the Fool
by Sandra Billington
Paperback, 164 Pages, Published 2015 by Faber & Faber
ISBN-13: 978-0-571-29998-0, ISBN: 0-571-29998-9

"'Historian and actress Sandra Billington takes us on an entertaining, illuminating and extremely informative journey. This unique book is essential reading for all serious fools and clowns.' Mike Leigh Who is the Fool and what does he mean to us? Pre-1900 scholars thought him a Renaissance fashion, a continental import of note in the British Isles only between 1486 and the 1630s, per his appearances in Shakespeare. But, as Sandra Billin ..."






Midsummer Wheel-Rolling on Dartmoor, in South Wales and South Staffordshire
The Roman Evidence
by Sandra Billington
Paperback, 34 Pages, Published 2014 by Holly Books
ISBN-13: 978-0-9553613-3-3, ISBN: 0-9553613-3-8






Coming Up for the Third Time
by Sandra Billington
Paperback, 336 Pages, Published 2011 by Holly Books
ISBN-13: 978-0-9553613-2-6, ISBN: 0-9553613-2-X

"Sandra Billington has written three academic books about popular customs in the Middle Ages, two of which won prizes."






Coming Up for the Third Time
Biography and Autobiography (Partly Fictionalised)
by Sandra Billington
Hardcover, 344 Pages, Published 2009 by Holly Books
ISBN-13: 978-0-9553613-1-9, ISBN: 0-9553613-1-1

"An innocent in the 1960s, Stephanie learned by experience how tough life could be in the theatre for a young woman. Written in the third person, this autobiography of Sandra Billington brings out of the closet some bizarre events."






The Land of Dreams
by Sandra Billington, Sara-Jane Sainsbury
Hardcover, 90 Pages, Published 2007 by Holly Books
ISBN-13: 978-0-9553613-0-2, ISBN: 0-9553613-0-3






Mock Kings in Medieval Society and Renaissance Drama(1st Edition)
by Sandra Billington
Hardcover, 304 Pages, Published 1991 by Clarendon Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-811967-8, ISBN: 0-19-811967-4

"King-led outlaw defiance, riotous lords of misrule, proud midsummer mock kings, and stately Inns-of-Court princes--in diverse ways all were reflections of the dominant social order from the medieval to early Stuart periods and, as this new book makes clear, all influenced the writings of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Billington considers kingship in the light of contemporary accounts of elected kings in outlaw and rebel groups, a ..."






A Social History of the Fool.
by Sandra Billington
Paperback, 160 Pages, Published 1986 by Prentice-Hall
ISBN-13: 978-0-7108-1088-5, ISBN: 0-7108-1088-1






A Social History of the Fool
by Sandra Billington
Hardcover, 150 Pages, Published 1984 by Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN-13: 978-0-312-73293-6, ISBN: 0-312-73293-7






Between Worlds by Billington Sandra Hardback Book The Fast
by Sandra Billington
Hardcover, 272 Pages, Published 2005 by Book Guild Ltd
ISBN-13: 978-1-85776-854-1, ISBN: 1-85776-854-X






Social History of The Fool Billington Sandra 0710806108
by Sandra Billington
Hardcover, 160 Pages, Published 1984 by Branch Line
ISBN-13: 978-0-7108-0610-9, ISBN: 0-7108-0610-8






The Concept of the Goddess
by Sandra Billington
Ebook
ISBN-13: 978-1-134-64148-2, ISBN: 1-134-64148-6






The Concept of the Goddess
by Sandra Billington
Ebook
ISBN-13: 978-1-134-64149-9, ISBN: 1-134-64149-4






The Concept of the Goddess
by Sandra Billington
Ebook
ISBN-13: 978-1-134-64147-5, ISBN: 1-134-64147-8






The Concept of the Goddess
by Sandra Billington
Ebook
ISBN-13: 978-0-203-76462-6, ISBN: 0-203-76462-5



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