The world and its past as Christian allegory in the early Middle Ages

2000 ◽  
pp. 102-113 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dominic Janes
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Early Middle Ages ◽  
The World

Early Latin Discussions of the Eternity of the World in the Thirteenth Century

Traditio ◽  
1987 ◽  
Vol 43 ◽  
pp. 171-197
Author(s):  
Richard C. Dales
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Thirteenth Century ◽  
Twelfth Century ◽  
Christian Church ◽  
Early Middle Ages ◽  
The World ◽  
Preceding Period

Although the doctrine of the eternity of the world had evoked much concern and opposition among the Fathers of the Christian Church, it ceased to engage the attention of Latin Christian writers during most of the early Middle Ages. When interest in the question revived during the twelfth century, it was nearly always considered in the context of Plato's Timaeus or Boethius’ De consolatione philosophiae. By 1270, the issue seemed to be between the supporters and the opponents of Aristotle. Although the story of Latin discussions of the eternity of the world during the 1260s and 1270s has been quite thoroughly investigated, the preceding period from about 1230 to 1260 has been largely ignored. It is the purpose of the present study to elucidate this neglected stage in medieval discussions of the eternity of the world and to show its relationship to the earlier and later periods.

scholarly journals АЛЬ-ФАРАБИ И МУЗЫКА (AL-FARABI AND MUSIC)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aigul Kosanova
Keyword(s):  
Central Asia ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Human Behavior ◽  
Early Middle Ages ◽  
Scientific Center ◽  
Scientific Heritage ◽  
The People ◽  
The World ◽  
City State ◽  
The City

Іn this article, the author examines the scientific heritage of the great thinker and philosopher of the East, Abu Nasir al Farabi. The contribution of the word is analysed. Abu Nasr Muhammad Ibn Tarkhan Ibn Uzlag al-Farabi (870-950) was born in the city of Farab (Otrar) on the territory of the modern South Kazakhstan region. In the early middle ages, Otrar was called Farab. The city of Otrar was the second major cultural, commercial, political and scientific center, the center of the ancient culture of Kazakhstan and Central Asia. The most famous of his scientific works is" treatise on the views of good citizens "("views of good citizens"). "The scientist divides the city leaders into "benevolent and ignorant". At that time, there was a city-state. When will its inhabitants be happy? According to the scientist, this depends on the mayors of the cities. If the mayor is educated, fair, and clean-minded, all citizens will be happy. And if the mayor of the city is ignorant and lies, then the people of the city will be unhappy. Al-Farabi says that in order to achieve true happiness, a person must constantly seek. Human behavior should also be good," Zhakypbek Altayevich says in the documentary "Al - Farabi-philosopher of civilization". In addition, Al-Farabi's work "the great treatise on music" has been translated into many languages of the world.

scholarly journals THE NATURE OF THE ARAB UNIVERSAL BIBLIOGRAPHY KITAB AL–FIHRIST BY IBN AN-NADIM FROM 987 (377 HIJRAH) (A HIGHWAY OF SCIENCE AND INFORMATION IN THE FRAMEWORK OF THE BIBLIOGRAPHIC ENCYCLOPEDIC INFRASTRUCTURE OF THE PLANET: HELLENISTIC EGYPT, LATE ANTIQUIT

ASJ. ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (52) ◽  
pp. 16-23
Author(s):  
S. Denchev ◽  
A. Kumanova ◽  
N. Kazanski
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Late Antiquity ◽  
Ancient Rome ◽  
Early Middle Ages ◽  
The Reformation ◽  
The World

 For the goals of the e-library UNIVERSALICA has been presented the instruments of the world universal bibliography: 1) library (Hellenistic Egypt); 2) selective (Ancient Rome); 3) bio-bibliographic dictionaries  (Late antiquity – Germany on the eve of the Reformation); 4) bibliographic encyclopedia (Late antiquity, Early Middle Ages). : In this context, the multi-functional secondary documentary encyclopaedic work, which is an international and retrospective annotated bibliographic index, Kitāb al-Fihrist (987) by Abū’l-Faraj Muḥammad ibn AbīYa‘qūb ibn Isḥāq an-Nadīm al-Warrāq (932-990).

Introduction

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander O'Hara
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Social Cohesion ◽  
Late Antiquity ◽  
Sixth Century ◽  
Cultural Hybridity ◽  
Early Middle Ages ◽  
Founding Fathers ◽  
Political Landscape ◽  
The World

In the early Middle Ages Europe’s political landscape was significantly shaped by the emergence of new fundamental modes of identification, both ethnic and religious. These processes created new forms of social cohesion and conflict. The world into which the Irish ascetic exile and monastic founder Columbanus entered when he left Ireland toward the end of the sixth century was a world of gentes, new constellations of peoples. The pluralistic political landscape of the gentes had replaced a world of empire. This chapter introduces the themes and approach of this volume, which explores Columbanus’s influence on Robert Schuman, one of the founding fathers of the modern European Union; the emerging idea of Europe in the early Middle Ages, which Columbanus gave voice to; and how reciprocity and cultural hybridity can be useful lenses through which to study this period of transformation from Late Antiquity to the early Middle Ages.

The Silencing of the World: Early Medieval Soundscapes and a New Aural Culture

2017 ◽  
Vol 72 (3) ◽  
pp. 411-450
Author(s):  
Nira Pancer
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Physical Environment ◽  
Medieval Literature ◽  
Early Medieval ◽  
Early Middle Ages ◽  
The World ◽  
World Point ◽  
Ancient Texts

While ancient texts contain many descriptions of soundscapes, early medieval literature remains largely silent. How can we explain the dwindling references to sound following the passage from antiquity to the early Middle Ages? Does this “silencing of the world” point to an alteration of the “objective” soundscape induced by changes in the material and physical environment, or does it indicate a deeper shift in the aural culture of the period? If there is reason to suppose that the decline in noise can be partly explained by an overall change in infrastructures, this transformation cannot account for the growing scarcity of sound references in the literature of the time. In order to understand this phenomenon, one must focus on the didactic character of hagiographic literature and on the theological motivations of its authors, whose goal was to sensitize their flock to a “sacred sonography.”

Interior Conversion

2020 ◽  
pp. 174-200
Author(s):  
David W. Kling
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Low Countries ◽  
Early Middle Ages ◽  
Religious Order ◽  
Beatific Vision ◽  
Final Conversion ◽  
Imitation Of Christ ◽  
The World ◽  
High Middle Ages ◽  
Active Pursuit

In the early Middle Ages, the monastic model of conversion represented Christianity’s highest form of spirituality. Conversion meant becoming a religious or entering a religious order; it represented withdrawal into a cloistered community where the soul’s quest for perfection in imitation of Christ could be fully realized. Conversion signified a lifelong pursuit of God, a desire for a final conversion culminating in the beatific vision. By the High Middle Ages, however, this monastic model was increasingly challenged by friars and lay movements (e.g., Beguines, tertiaries, and the Devotio Moderna movement in the Low Countries). For them, conversion meant a call to return to the primitive church in active pursuit of holiness in the world, not a retreat into the confines of the monastery.

Die Iberische Halbinsel im frühen Mittelalter: Ausgangspunkt für interkulturelle Kontakte zwischen den Ottonen und den andalusischen Muslimen

2018 ◽  
Vol 53 (2) ◽  
pp. 397-418
Author(s):  
Albrecht Classen
Keyword(s):  
Iberian Peninsula ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
The Political ◽  
Early Middle Ages ◽  
The World ◽  
Iberische Halbinsel ◽  
The Alps

Abstract In light of two new strands of research, this study’s focus on the contacts between the world of the Iberian Peninsula in the premodern world, and the interest in Christian-Muslim relations globally, brings together two related texts from the early Middle Ages that illustrate a significant proximity between both cultures. Hrotsvit von Gandersheim’s “Pelagius” and the contemporary vita of the abbot Johannes of Gorze demonstrate that 10th-century Christian audiences north of the Alps were considerably informed about the situation in the Iberian Peninsula and made significant efforts to learn about the political and religious conditions there. Together, the literary account and the biographical narrative confirm a much more open exchange between both worlds than has previously been assumed.

scholarly journals El ventall de la societat del seu temps segons Ramon Llull

2016 ◽  
Vol 21 ◽  
pp. 17-26
Author(s):  
Gabriel Ensenyat Pujol
Keyword(s):  
Social Structure ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
13Th Century ◽  
Early Middle Ages ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Representative Image ◽  
Ramon Llull

The tripartite scheme based on the three orders (oratores, bellatores and laboratores), which characterized the society in the early Middle Ages, was already obsolete in the 13th century, since by this time the social structure had become much more complex. Furthermore, the presence of new social groups, such as the merchants and the bourgeois, raised a debate about its “raison d’être”. Therefore a person such as Ramon Llull, who knew very well the world where he lived, described a more representative image of the society of his time. Moreover, the interest of his analysis goes even further, since the Blessed took sides for some groups, such us the merchants –whose activity had been condemned until that moment– or the farmers, usually reviled. He even incorporates in his analysis some groups of people, such as the pilgrims or the painters, missing in any other work of the time.

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