Rose Lore - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3981386345 ISBN 13: 9783981386349

Publisher: Uncut/Voices Press, 2015

Synopsis

Throughout history and across cultures, important figures such as Nostradamas in France, Daniel Andreeve in Russia, Dr. Edward Bach in England, and Dr. Tomin Harada in Japan have brought to light the symbolic and medicinal qualities of the rose. Written by scholars and researchers from diverse backgrounds, the essays in Rose Lore are a rendering of global cultural history, literature, and metaphysics, woven together in a collection that will be valuable to several disciplines. The essays present numerous qualities of the rose as a symbol with broad cultural, social, and historical meanings: from astrology, to the history of Catholicism, to the new anti-Female Genital Mutilation global movement.

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Review

This study of the prevalence and symbolism of the rose in varied cultures, literary traditions, religions, philosophies . . . compels the reader to reflect upon the far-reaching influence and extensive significance of a familiar item that most of us have casually enjoyed without any idea of the degree to which it has affected indeed permeated our thoughts, health, beliefs, practices, icons . . . . This stimulating book is a reinforcement of the beauty and magnificence of a universe where even the simplest of creations speaks to us and influences our lives and thinking in innumerable ways.--Daryl Cumber Dance

Dr. Tomin Harada created a 'peace rose' after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, in the hope that this new variation of the rose would spread all over the world and erase hatred among mankind. For many survivors of the nuclear holocaust, therefore, the aroma of the rose still represents love and peace and brings them spiritual comfort. This collection of intriguing essays unfolds the hidden but powerful symbolic meanings and cultural background of the rose and reveals the profound nature of humanity which this flower signifies. The reason as to why the rose is a symbol of 'peace' is but one of the questions addressed in this fascinating book.--Tanaka, Yuki

[Hutton] does an excellent job of unfolding the powerful message the rose carries along. The reader will benefit from exceptional cultural, historical, mystic, and semiotic analysis. [Rose Lore] is to be praised in cultural studies and in the humanities.--Margarita del Olmo

About the Author

Frankie Hutton is associate professor of history at Bowie State University and author of The Early Black Press in America, 1827-1860.

Edition details

• Publisher: Uncut/Voices Press
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3981386345
• ISBN 13: 9783981386349
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 248
• Editor: Hutton Frankie