Breaking the Silence: The Poor Clares and the Visual Arts in Fifteenth-Century Italy*

1995 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 262-286 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeryldene M. Wood
Keyword(s):  
Fifteenth Century ◽  
Visual Arts ◽  
The Moon ◽  
The Poor ◽  
The World ◽  
The Way

As Dante and Beatrice begin their ascent to the Empyrean in canto 3 of the Paradiso, they alight on the moon where they encounter pale spirits, not mere reflections but “true substances … assigned [there] for inconstancy to holy vows” (Dante, 29-31).1 Encouraged by Beatrice, Dante asks an eager soul identified as Piccarda Donati, a Poor Clare abducted from a Florentine convent by her brother and coerced into a politically expedient marriage, “through what warp she had not entirely passed the shuttle of her vow” (Dante, 95-96). Like the followers of Saint Clare who “go cloaked and veiled on earth,” she replies, “as a girl, I fled the world to walk the way she walked and closed myself into her habit, pledged to her sisterhood till my last day” (Dante, 98-99, 103-05).

scholarly journals Identity considerations for a psychology based on a complex epistemology

2009 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 158-166 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juan Carlos Jaramillo Estrada
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Active Part ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
The Poor ◽  
The World ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
The Way

Born in the late nineteenth century, within the positivist paradigm, psychology has made important developments that have allowed its recognition in academia and labor. However, contextual issues have transformed the way we conceptualize reality, the world and man, perhaps in response to the poor capacity of the inherited paradigm to ensure quality of life and welfare of human beings. This has led to the birth and recognition of new paradigms, including complex epistemology, in various fields of the sphere of knowledge, which include the subjectivity, uncertainty, relativity of knowledge, conflict, the inclusion of "the observed" as an active part of the interventions and the relativity of a single knowable reality to move to co-constructed realities. It is proposed an approach to the identity consequences for a psychology based on complex epistemology, and the possible differences and relations with psychology, traditionally considered.

Abruptly Dogen

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kidder Smith
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Thirteenth Century ◽  
Full Moon ◽  
The Moon ◽  
The World ◽  
The Buddha ◽  
The Way

In the thirteenth century Dogen brought Zen to Japan. His tradition flourishes there still today and now has taken root across the world. Abruptly Dogen presents some of his pith writings—startling, shifting, funny, spilling out in every direction. They come from all seventy-five chapters of his masterwork, the Eye of Real Dharma (Shōbōgenzō 正法眼藏), and roam through mountains, magic, everyday life, meditation, the nature of mind, and how the Buddha is always speaking from inside our heads. An excerpt from chapter 1, “A Case of Here We Are”: Human wisdom is like a moon roosting in water. No stain on the moon, nor does the water rip. However wide and grand the light, it still finds lodging in a puddle. The full moon, the spilling sky, all roosting in a single dewdrop on a single blade of grass. A man of wisdom is uncut, the way a moon doesn’t pierce water. Wisdom in a man is unobstructed, the way the sky’s full moon is unobstructed in a dewdrop. No doubt about it, the drop’s as deep as the moon is high. How long does this go on? How deep is the water, how high the moon?

'Mission In Christ's Way': The Way of Which Christ?

Exchange ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 270-277
Author(s):  
Gnana Robinson
Keyword(s):  
International Economic ◽  
Jesus Christ ◽  
Local Churches ◽  
Power Struggle ◽  
The Poor ◽  
The World ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Different Parts ◽  
The Way

AbstractAll Churches and Missionary Movements in different parts of the world assert without hesitation that in all that they do, they follow the way of Jesus Christ. But the gross injustice in international economic dealings promoted by the so-called 'Christian Nations' in the world and the consequent widening of the gap between the rich and the poor in the world, the discrimination of people on the basis of creed, class, race and colour practised by many Christians and the power-struggle and corruption found in many local churches make the world wonder, the way of which Christ these Christians follow! The image of the Biblical Jesus is that of the Servant-leader, crowned with thorns, who emptied himself of all worldly riches, pomp and power and laid down his life as a ransom for many. Since the time of Emperor Constantine, this thorn-crowned servant Jesus is turned into a gold-crowned King, an anti-Christ with the face of 'Mammon', the idol of riches and power. Since one cannot worship God and Mammon at the same time, it is mandatory on the part of us all faithful Christians, to introspect ourselves and decide, the way of which Christ we want to follow.

Pickpocket Training Poem on Credit / 291 best terms he could. He put spurs to his old mare, rode before the news, and sold to the widow Lowly and her two sons, who had just come of age, about fifty thousand acres of land, which lay the Lord knows where, and to which he knew he had no title, and took all their father, the old deacon’s farm in mortgage, and threatens to turn the poor widow upon the town, and her two boys upon the world; but this is the way of the world. The ’Squire is a great speculator, he is of the quorum, can sit on the sessions, and fine poor girls for natural misteps; but I am a little rogue, who speculated in only fifty acres of rocks, and must stand here in the pillory. Then there is the state of Georgia. They sold millions of acres, to which they had no more title, than I to David Dray’s land. Their great men pocketed the money; and their Honourable Assembly publicly burnt all the records of their conveyance, and are now selling the lands again. But Georgia is a great Honourable State. They can keep Negro slaves, race horses, gouge out eyes, send, members to fight duels at Congress, and cry out for France and the guillotine, and be honoured in the land; while poor I, who never murdered any one, who never fought a duel or gouged an eye; and had too much honour to burn my forged deed, when I had once been wicked enough to make it, must stand here in the pillory, for I am a little rogue. Take warning by my sad fate; and if you must speculate in lands, let it be in millions of acres; and if you must be rogues, take warning by my unhappy fate and become great rogues.—For as it is said in a pair of verses I read when I was a boy,

2018 ◽  
pp. 307-311
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
The Poor ◽  
The World ◽  
The Town ◽  
Race Horses ◽  
The Way

scholarly journals KEEPING ON THE PATH IN FIVE POEMS BY ALICE WALKER

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ririn Rosada ◽  
Kurnia Ningsih
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
Black Woman ◽  
Alice Walker ◽  
Bell Hooks ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Poor ◽  
The World ◽  
Public Area ◽  
The Way

This article is about the analysis of five poems by Alice Walker entitled Blessed Are The Poor In Spirit(BATPIS), If I was President(IIP), To Change The World Enough(TCTHE), Working Class Hero(WCH), You Want To Grow Old Like The Carter(YWTGOLTC)focuses on how the black woman who is represented by the speaker maintains her movement for a better life. The problem of this analysis is how far these poems exposes about the efforts of the speaker to get the position in the public area. The purpose of the analysis is to find out the way of the speaker to survive and achieve her goal. This analysis is involved the elements of poetry such as irony, imagery, tone and the speaker to reveal the issue of keeping on the path in these poems. This analysis is related to the concept of feminism by Bell Hooks. The result of this analysis shows that the speaker is able to keeping on the path for a better life .

scholarly journals The Dialogue of Arts in Romanian Contemporary Drama

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 207-213
Author(s):  
Laura Bilic
Keyword(s):  
Visual Arts ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Music Technology ◽  
Dance Music ◽  
Work Of Art ◽  
The World ◽  
Continuous Work ◽  
New Generation ◽  
The Way

Abstract The beginning of the 21st century is characterized in Romania by the emerging of a new generation of playwrights. Numerous actors or people coming “off the stage” begin to write drama, so that the playwrights become authors of the texts played on the stage. Thus, the playwrights join a trend that is common in Europe, being part of a category named by Bruno Tackels “les écrivains de plateau” - the writers of the stage. Nowadays, we witness a change in the way the young artists view drama - they do not only want to change the way of writing and performing drama, but they also want to change the world they live in. The contemporary performance has gradually lost its specificity by blending itself with visual arts, dance, music, technology, becoming a project. In our modern society the artists do not look for something meant to last forever, so the work of art becomes a continuous work in progress. Therefore, a bridge is being shattered - the bridge between nowadays and posterity.

Of Nonunderstanding

2020 ◽  
pp. 562-565
Author(s):  
Hans Blumenberg
Keyword(s):  
Second Century ◽  
The Moon ◽  
The Poor ◽  
The World

This chapter reflects on Hans Blumenberg's “Of Nonunderstanding: Glosses on Three Fables” (1984). The first fable is “The Pauper's Coin.” Blumenberg read this fable as a hint about how important it is for the poor man, too, to carry at least a small coin about him. The second is a lyric fable of Babrios from the second century, in which Zeus, Poseidon, and Athena engage in an art competition. Meanwhile, the Spanish humanist Juan Luis Vives recorded the fable of the peasant who killed a donkey because it swallowed the moon while drinking from a bucket, and because the world could sooner do without a donkey than without heaven's lamp. The chapter then considers the different ways that this fable can be read.

scholarly journals First photographs of the canals of Mars

1906 ◽  
Vol 77 (515) ◽  
pp. 132-135 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Photographic Plate ◽  
The Moon ◽  
Relative Ratio ◽  
The World ◽  
Impossible Task ◽  
Different Order ◽  
The Way

To make the canals of Mars write their own record on a photographic plate, so that astronomers might have at first hand objective proof of their reality, has long been one of the objects of this observatory. The endeavour has at last succeeded. Unnecessary as such corroboration was to the observers themselves, it is different with the world at large; for the work of the camera at once puts the canals in a position where scientists in general, as well as astronomers in particular, are able to judge the phenomena. The difficulties in the way, however, at first proved insuperable. The main markings of the planet were secured by the camera here four years ago, but to get the canals to show was a matter of an altogether different order of difficulty from that of celestial photography in general. This will be appreciated on recalling Richey’s excellent photographs of the moon, within the wall of one of whose smaller craters the whole disc of the planet might be enclosed. When it is further considered that the delicate detail on this disc bears to it the same relative ratio that the craters themselves do to the whole moon, the almost impossible task of reproducing the canals will be understood.

scholarly journals Die boop beskaam nie: Die N G Kerk se rol ten opsigte van versoening, armoede en morele berstel

2001 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 102-114
Author(s):  
P.G.J. Meiring
Keyword(s):  
Soren Kierkegaard ◽  
Dutch Reformed ◽  
Reformed Church ◽  
The Poor ◽  
The World ◽  
Close Relationship ◽  
Moral Repair ◽  
The Church ◽  
The Way ◽  
Dutch Reformed Church

The year 2001 was declared by the Dutch Reformed Church (N G Kerk) as the "Year of Hope". The author, chairperson of the church's Committee for Reconciliation, Poverty and Moral Repair, reports on the preparationsand the expectations for the Year of Hope. Hope, he contends, is far more than mere optimism, it is living in a close relationship with Christ, who indeed is our Hope, following in his footsteps in the world of today. The church's hope should be concretised in its kerugma (in preaching as well as in the development of a Theology of Hope), its diakonia (its service to the poor and needy, especially to Aids-victims and their families), its koinonia (the church being a preparing community, a sign and a sacrament of the Kingdom), and in its leitourgia (the way in which we offer our lives to God a as a living sacrifice to his glory). To illustrate his points, the author uses metaphors created by both Soren Kierkegaard and Lesslie Newbigin.

Becoming Politicized

2017 ◽  
Vol 225 (4) ◽  
pp. 324-335 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dimitrios Barkas ◽  
Xenia Chryssochoou
Keyword(s):  
Collective Identity ◽  
Political Socialization ◽  
Greek Society ◽  
Economic Vulnerability ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
Identity Model ◽  
Beliefs About The Future ◽  
Of Greece ◽  
The Way

Abstract. This research took place just after the end of the protests following the killing of a 16-year-old boy by a policeman in Greece in December 2008. Participants (N = 224) were 16-year-olds in different schools in Attiki. Informed by the Politicized Collective Identity Model ( Simon & Klandermans, 2001 ), a questionnaire measuring grievances, adversarial attributions, emotions, vulnerability, identifications with students and activists, and questions about justice and Greek society in the future, as well as about youngsters’ participation in different actions, was completed. Four profiles of the participants emerged from a cluster analysis using representations of the conflict, emotions, and identifications with activists and students. These profiles differed on beliefs about the future of Greece, participants’ economic vulnerability, and forms of participation. Importantly, the clusters corresponded to students from schools of different socioeconomic areas. The results indicate that the way young people interpret the events and the context, their levels of identification, and the way they represent society are important factors of their political socialization that impacts on their forms of participation. Political socialization seems to be related to youngsters’ position in society which probably constitutes an important anchoring point of their interpretation of the world.

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