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Christianity. The contention is that there existed a certain tension between these two points – between the localising and universalising demands of the evangelical project – that characterised Protestant missionary attitudes to evangelism at this time. There are a variety of competing terms in German (and English) at play in this chapter: Mythos , Mythe (myth), Märchen (fairy tale), Sage (saga), Erzählung (story), Geschichte (story, history
men as Alfred, Lord Milner, Under-Secretary of Finance in Cairo. He saw the revival of Egypt after a few years of British rule as almost a fairy tale: Look where you will – at the Army, at finance, at agriculture, at the administration of justice, at the everyday life of the people and the relations to
key buildings in the city (including mosques) were specially illuminated, the scene described as one straight out of fairy-tales. The great and good, including selected Arab notables, gathered for the arrival of the emperor, la maréchale MacMahon on his arm. Late in the evening supper was served, tables laden with Algerian specialities or those inspired by local products including such treats as ‘porcupine garnished with
originally Ella Gwendoline Rees Williams. She had an Irish grandmother who sent her fairy-tales and books of legends, and her mother’s ancestry was Scottish. Sue Thomas notes that Rhys felt her family, though middle class, was regarded as below ‘the solidly English middle classes’ in the island. 64 This is confirmed by an incident recounted in Phyllis Shand Allfrey’s biography: Allfrey met Rhys in England in
en sfeer in eigen land en overzee ’ (Light and atmosphere in our own country and overseas). The accompanying text held that the palace ‘beamed like a fairy tale ending in the tropical night. Overseas the festivities of the jubilee and inauguration were also enthusiastically celebrated.’ 83 The third commemorative volume reflected more deeply on Wilhelmina's legacy. One of the authors was Jan Willem Rengelink, a socialist born in 1912 in Amsterdam to a
towards more visually accessible royals, but identifies a different register and reason for this change. Royals in these countries were depicted by court photographers as ‘romantic’ figures out of fairy tales rather than as people whom ordinary folk might identify with – except that such imagery reflected the rising incidence of royals marrying commoners for love rather than fellow aristocrats for status (here is the democratic connection). 54 In the Dutch context, by contrast, the same political development – the
-human animals is therefore not just important but sacred. Its transgression is a sacred taboo. In western fairy tales, such as those of Aesop, a true metamorphosis between humans and non-human animals does not take place – animals simply don human attire. On the other hand, this tradition has been challenged since the nineteenth century by Darwinian evolutionism, which has been a
-plane, owed its development to ‘a fairy tale white knight’, a sporty young man who had inherited a family fortune and contracted de Havilland to build him an aeroplane. 4 Wealth, leisure and sport were synonymous with all flying, into the Empire not least. Few people could afford to purchase or even rent a Moth; there were probably fewer than 100 ‘Moth flights’ across the Empire by
and gowns of the senior judiciary; military personnel in full dress; and above all royalty come before us in these public moments as from a land of fairy tale that temporality cannot touch. We are mortal; they are from a world that is immemorial and immortal. The power of this cultural grammar is immense and exists not only in costume and ritual but in music, gesture and language. The music most
little island in the West’ came to ‘belong to each other’, declares that the book is ‘not a history lesson, but a story-book’, including ‘stories which wise people say are only fairy-tales and not history. But it seems to me that they are part of Our Island Story, and ought not to be forgotten.’ The story therefore starts with Neptune and Brutus of Troy, before arriving at the Romans, and later