scholarly journals How Venus Got Her Furs

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tom Amos Driver
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Literary Tradition ◽  
Chretien De Troyes ◽  
Chrétien De Troyes ◽  
The Social ◽  
Courtly Romance ◽  
Medieval Europe ◽  
The World ◽  
Over Time ◽  
The Middle Ages

This, particular study explores how the Middle Ages gave birth to sadomasochistic erotica; how a burgeoning literary tradition influenced patterns of sexuality and media across medieval Europe. The bulk of the following analysis is centered around Chrétien de Troyes’ Knight of the Cart, and it is aimed at the following questions: Can the origins of sadomasochistic erotica be traced to the courtly romance of Chrétien de Troyes? What were the social ramifications of courtly romance literature? To what extent does Chrétien’s writing depict sadomasochistic relations? How did it affect patterns of sexual behavior in medieval Europe? How did it impact women’s agency? How did the world of sadomasochistic erotica change after the Middle Ages? And likewise, how did its effect on society evolve over time?

scholarly journals Mos geometricus v. Reality: Quantity, Quality, Time and Information in Combat Simulations since the Middle Ages

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 173-202
Author(s):  
Jürg Gassmann ◽  
Samuel Gassmann
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
The World ◽  
Single Combat ◽  
Over Time ◽  
Simulated Training ◽  
Key Questions ◽  
The Middle Ages

Abstract The non-lethal simulated training of lethal reality, whether it be single combat or war, was historically a question of life and death. We provide an analytical framework for evaluating historical precedents in fight simulations by focussing on two key questions: What was the philosophy guiding the conception of reality – in particular, did historical practitioners see reality as deterministic, and if not, how did they see it? And how did the simulations deal with the elements of quantity, quality, timing, and information? The analysis shows that our ancestors’ perception of the reality of fighting chan-ged over time, as their interpretations of reality for the world at large changed. Considerable intellectual effort and ingenuity were invested into attempts to understand reality and formulate corresponding realistic simulations, making these ludic artefacts reflective, sometimes iconic for, and occasionally ahead of their historical-cultural context. Seemingly irrational phenomena, such as the persistence of lethal duelling, had perfectly pragmatic elements.

Theodore Evergates, Marie of France, Countess of Champagne, 1145–1198. The Middle Ages Series. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019, ix, 180 pp., 2 maps, 5 fig.

Mediaevistik ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 440-441
Author(s):  
Albrecht Classen
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Chretien De Troyes ◽  
University Of Pennsylvania ◽  
Chrétien De Troyes ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The Middle Ages

We are all quite familiar with Marie of France, Countess of Champagne who was, as far as we can tell, the patron of Chrétien de Troyes, Gautier d’Arras, and probably also of Andreas Capellanus. From the historical perspective, we cannot tell too much about her, except that she appears to have ruled relatively independently and was a great supporter of the arts. Theodore Evergates now provides a kind of biography of this significant person, as far as this is possible on the basis of relatively scant documentation.

scholarly journals Do Verso à Prosa: o potencial Histórico dos Romances de Cavalaria (Séculos XII-XIV) * From Verse to Prose: the Historical potential of Chivalry Romances (Eleventh-Fourteenth Centuries)

2014 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 414
Author(s):  
CAROLINA GUAL DA SILVA ◽  
CLÁUDIA REGINA BOVO ◽  
FLÁVIA AMARAL
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Social Representations ◽  
Chretien De Troyes ◽  
Historical Documents ◽  
Chrétien De Troyes ◽  
Literature History ◽  
The Middle Ages

<p><strong>Resumo: </strong>Nesse artigo pretendemos problematizar o uso dos romances de cavalaria como documento histórico para investigação da Idade Média. Preocupados em refletir sobre o surgimento desse gênero textual, sua função e seu potencial de investigação histórica, nos dedicamos a analisar um conjunto de obras – os <em>Romans </em>de Chrétien de Troyes, o <em>Tristão</em> de Béroul e o <em>Romance da Melusina</em> de Jean D’Arras. Nosso objetivo é verificar como elas veiculam determinadas representações sociais, cuja finalidade era formalizar uma ação pedagógica em meio às cortes francesas, onde foram proclamados.   </p><p><strong>Palavras-chave:</strong> Literatura – História – Idade Média.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Abstract: </strong>This article’s intention is to problematize the use of chivalry romances as historical documents for the investigation of the Middle Ages. Concerned with understanding the appearance of this textual genre, its function and historical investigative potential, we have analyzed a group of works – Chrétien de troyes’s <em>Romans</em>, Béroul’s <em>Tristan</em>, and Jean d’Arras’s <em>Melusine Romance</em>. Our goal is to verify how these works portray certain social representations, whose finality was to formalize a pedagogic action in the French courts where they were recited.</p><p><strong>Keywords:</strong> Literature – History – Middle Ages.</p><p class="ListaColorida-nfase11"> </p>

scholarly journals Przemiany symboliczno-teologicznego znaczenia materii i ich odzwierciedlanie się w estetyce i sztuce chrześcijańskiej

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
pp. 7-27
Author(s):  
Janusz Królikowski ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Essential Elements ◽  
Creative Work ◽  
Positive View ◽  
Supportive Role ◽  
The World ◽  
The Church ◽  
Over Time ◽  
The Middle Ages

Almost from its very beginning, the faith of the Church incorporated art in its various forms of expression into the process of interpreting its doctrine. Quite quickly the Church included in this process the dogma of creation, i.e. the calling of the world into existence by God. At first, in polemic against ancient Manichaean tendencies, this dogma contributed to a positive view of matter, and thus to the possibility of using it in the realm of religion: since it comes from God, it cannot be an obstacle to worshipping him. Over time, the theme of creation itself was also incorporated into art, above all because it shaped Christian aesthetics, which always in some way reflected the essential elements of the Christian vision of the world and matter: radiance, proportion, harmony. Scholastic theologians in the Middle Ages drew attention to the fact that aesthetics, referring to the creative work of God, can play a supportive role in man’s return to God, thanks to the fact that it lifts his spirit towards the Creator. In the Middle Ages the motif of God the Creator, especially as the Creator of all things, also appeared in art. Under the influence of Enlightenment and positivist tendencies, matter lost its symbolic and theological bearing, becoming only a material made available to man, and thus the motif of creation disappeared from art. This means that there is a need to search for the possibility of including the truth about creation in art.

Canyons, Colours and Birds: An Interview with Oliver Messiaen

Tempo ◽  
1979 ◽  
pp. 2-8
Author(s):  
Harriet Watts
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Chretien De Troyes ◽  
Sole Purpose ◽  
Chrétien De Troyes ◽  
The Middle Ages ◽  
The Way

Well, this is what happened. My impresario had introduced me to Miss Alice Tully from New York and Miss Tully wanted to commission a work from me for the American Bicentennial. I had no time and I said that I would be unable to accept her offer, but then she invited me to dinner. In the course of the meal, she told me how much she loved animals and that she travelled to India for the sole purpose of shaking the paw of a lion. Well, at first I laughed at this story, but then afterwards I recalled the account of the ‘Chevalier au Lion’ of Chrétien de Troyes, a French romance of the Middle Ages, and after having laughed, I cried. I said to myself, that woman is amazing, to go all the way to India just to see a lion and shake its paw, that's marvelous, and I accepted the commission.

scholarly journals Features of the formation of the Celtic version of Christianity in Ireland in the V - at the beginning of VI century

2008 ◽  
pp. 119-127
Author(s):  
V.R. Buchovskyi
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Close Contact ◽  
Historical Reality ◽  
The Social ◽  
Short Period ◽  
The World ◽  
Contemporary Life ◽  
Before And After ◽  
The Church ◽  
The Middle Ages

Throughout Christianity, its activities are in one way or another connected to the historical reality of its time. Usually, for different epochs, the strength of these bonds was different, but during the Middle Ages, they were significantly stronger than before and after. It is here that perhaps the most important moment was the rise of Christianity, which spread over a relatively short period of time almost throughout Europe. It was then - and never again in all its history - that the Church was able to participate in the formation of all aspects of its contemporary life (including the social), in accordance with its spirit. When solving this task, it inevitably came in close contact with the "world" and the various forms in which it was represented (ie with culture, state, etc.).

Visions of Kinship in Medieval Europe

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hans Hummer
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Social Mechanisms ◽  
Divine Love ◽  
Ethnographic Approach ◽  
Medieval Europe ◽  
High Middle Ages ◽  
The Middle Ages ◽  
Late Roman

What meaning did human kinship possess in a world regulated by biblical time, committed to the primacy of spiritual relationships, and bound by the sinews of divine love? In the process of exploring that question, this book offers a searching re-examination of kinship in Europe between late Roman times and the high Middle Ages, the period bridging Europe’s primitive past and its modern present. It critiques the modernist and Western bio-genealogical and functionalist assumptions that have shaped kinship studies since their inception in the nineteenth century, when biblical time collapsed and kinship became a signifier of the essential secularity of history and a method for conceptualizing a deeper prehistory guided by autogenous human impulses. It argues that this understanding of kinship is fundamentally antagonistic to medieval sentiments and is responsible for the frustrations researchers have encountered as they have tried to identify the famously elusive kin groups of medieval Europe. It delineates an alternative ethnographic approach inspired by recent anthropological work that privileges indigenous expressions of kinship and the interpretive potential of native ontologies. The book reveals that kinship in the Middle Ages was not biological, primitive, or a regulator of social mechanisms; nor is it traceable by bio-genealogical connections. In the Middle Ages kinship signified a sociality that flowed from convictions about the divine source of all things and wove together families, institutions, and divinities into an expansive eschatological vision animated by “the most righteous principle of love.”

scholarly journals The translation and transmission of ‘diatribal’ verbs in the textual traditions of the Zlatostruj collection

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simeon Dekker
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Form Equation ◽  
Verb Forms ◽  
Textual History ◽  
History Of ◽  
Textual Traditions ◽  
The Voice ◽  
Over Time ◽  
The Middle Ages

AbstractThe ‘diatribe’ is a dialogical mode of exposition, originating in Hellenistic Greek, where the author dramatically performs different voices in a polemical-didactic discourse. The voice of a fictitious opponent is often disambiguated by means of parenthetical verba dicendi, especially φησί(ν). Although diatribal texts were widely translated into Slavic in the Middle Ages, the textual history of the Zlatostruj collection of Chrysostomic homilies especially suits an investigation not only of how Greek ‘diatribal’ verbs were translated, but also how the Slavic verbs were transmitted or developed in different textual traditions. Over time, Slavic redactional activity led to a homogenization of verb forms. The initial variety of the original translation was partly eliminated, and the verb forms "Equation missing" and "Equation missing" became more firmly established as prototypical diatribal formulae. Especially the (increased) use of the 2sg form "Equation missing" has theoretical consequences for the text’s dialogical structure. Thus, an important dialogical component of the diatribe was reinforced in the Zlatostruj’s textual history on Slavic soil.

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