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In Our Time: Bruegel's The Fight Between Carnival and Lent (2015)
Digital Artefact
Milne, L. (2015). In Our Time: Bruegel's The Fight Between Carnival and Lent. [Radio broadcast]

BBC Radio 4 | https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04xrv9n

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Pieter Bruegel the Elder's painting of 1559, 'The Fight Between Carnival And Lent'. Created in Antwerp at a time of religious tension between Catholics and Pro... Read More about In Our Time: Bruegel's The Fight Between Carnival and Lent.

Pieter Bruegel and Carlo Ginzburg: The Debatable Land of Renaissance Dreams (2013)
Journal Article
Milne, L. S. (2013). Pieter Bruegel and Carlo Ginzburg: The Debatable Land of Renaissance Dreams. Cosmos, 29, 59-126

Pieter Bruegel the Elder's pictures of witches and dreams are discussed in relation to Carlo Ginzburg's studies of the benandanti (do-gooders, good walkers) and the mythology of the witches' Sabbath. The shared context for these is dream-culture as a... Read More about Pieter Bruegel and Carlo Ginzburg: The Debatable Land of Renaissance Dreams.

The Druids: Travels in Deep England, documentary film, 72 min (2011)
Digital Artefact
Milne, L. (2011). The Druids: Travels in Deep England, documentary film, 72 min. [Documentary Film]

The Druids is an exploration of neo-pagan magical belief in the 21st Century. Shot over three years in Somerset, England, this ethnographic documentary follows a group of modern pagans and their friends through their celebrations of the ritual year i... Read More about The Druids: Travels in Deep England, documentary film, 72 min.

A Boat Retold, documentary film, 25 min (2011)
Digital Artefact
Milne, L., & Martin, S. (2011). A Boat Retold, documentary film, 25 min. [Gallery Installation/ Documentary Film]

A Boat Retold (p.10ff), a documentary film by Louise Milne and Sean Martin (2011-13).

On the isle of Lewis in the oUter Hebrides, artist and poet Ian Stephen, writer Robert NacFarlane and others tell stories in and around the wooden fishing boat,... Read More about A Boat Retold, documentary film, 25 min.

The Broom of the System: On the Quarrel between Art and Narrative [in Exhibition Catalogue: Unreliable Witness] (2008)
Other
Milne, L. S. (2008). The Broom of the System: On the Quarrel between Art and Narrative [in Exhibition Catalogue: Unreliable Witness]. Tramway, Glasgow

Commissioned catalogue essay for the exhibition 'Unreliable Witness' (artists including Andrea Fraser, Peter Friedl, Michael Fullerton, Susan Hiller, Nedko Solakov, and Gabriela Vanga), Tramway, Glasgow, October/December 2008.

On the Side of the Angels (2004)
Book Chapter
Milne, L. S. (2004). On the Side of the Angels. In J. Lingwood (Ed.), Susan Hiller: Recall - Selected Works, 1969-2004 (141-147). Gateshead: Baltic & Porto: Museu de Arte ... & Basel: Kunsthalle

Contribution to the catalogue of an exhibition of art by Susan Hiller, held at the Baltic, Gateshead, May 1 - July 18, 2004, Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Serralves, Porto, October 15, 2004 - January 9, 2005 and Kunsthalle Basel, January 30 - March... Read More about On the Side of the Angels.

Shape-shifting and Dream-cultures in the Wider Norse World
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Milne, L. Shape-shifting and Dream-cultures in the Wider Norse World.

Shape-shifting and Dream-cultures in the Wider Norse World, for The Aarhus Old Norse Mythology Conference, Hybrids and Metamorphoses, Prague. mythconf.ff.cuni.cz.

Dream Cultures in the Renaissance
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Milne, L. S. (2013, May). Dream Cultures in the Renaissance. Presented at Seventh Annual International Conference on Comparative Mythology, Tübingen, Germany

No abstract available.

The Time Of The Dream In Mythic Thought And Culture
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Milne, L. (2016, May). The Time Of The Dream In Mythic Thought And Culture. Paper presented at Time and Myth: the Temporal and the Eternal. 10th Conference of the International Association for Comparative Mythology, Brno, Czech Republic

Ancient and tribal cultures perceive and describe the function of dreaming in distinctive ways. This paper examines theories of mind in ancient northern, Classical and tribal cultures in terms of the imagery used to describe the self and its faculty... Read More about The Time Of The Dream In Mythic Thought And Culture.

Nightmares and Other Doubles: Anthropological and Historical Perspectives on the Visual Culture of Self-shattering Dreams and Visions
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Milne, L. (2019, September). Nightmares and Other Doubles: Anthropological and Historical Perspectives on the Visual Culture of Self-shattering Dreams and Visions. Paper presented at Dream Cultures: Multidisciplinary Perspectives, University of Helsinki, Finland

The nightmare is a form of “affect-laden” or “self-shattering” dream, wherein the dreamer awakens in a state of high emotional disturbance. Such dreams include initiation and/or shamanic visions, close encounters with gods or spirits, sexual dreams,... Read More about Nightmares and Other Doubles: Anthropological and Historical Perspectives on the Visual Culture of Self-shattering Dreams and Visions.