The Jews in Spain Their Social, Political and Cultural Life During the Middle Ages By Abraham A. Newman. Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society of America. 1942. Vols. I, II, 286, 398 pages. $5.00.

1943 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 132-134
Author(s):  
William A. Irwin
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Cultural Life ◽  
Jewish Publication Society ◽  
The Middle Ages

The Enlightenment’s Paradigm Shift and the Three Impostors

2021 ◽  
pp. 43-62
Author(s):  
Guy G. Stroumsa
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Paradigm Shift ◽  
Family Relationship ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
Cultural Life ◽  
Different Shapes ◽  
Close Family ◽  
The Middle Ages

The preceding chapter dealt with the legend of the three rings, which highlighted the close family relationship between Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. This relationship, which had been an obvious one up through the Middle Ages, began to be seen as less evident in the eighteenth century. The Enlightenment (or perhaps, rather, the Enlightenments) took many different shapes across Europe. The present chapter is devoted to a paradigm shift, one which reflects a new historicization of European cultural life, at least in the approach to religious phenomena. In France, on which this chapter focuses, the historical transformation started earlier than elsewhere, at the very beginning of the eighteenth century.

scholarly journals Italy and Provence: Cultural Connections in the Middle Ages

2021 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 36-46
Author(s):  
Elena Grinina ◽  
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Galina Romanova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Literary Language ◽  
13Th Century ◽  
Cultural Life ◽  
Cultural Connections ◽  
The Middle Ages

The Provencal language and lyrics of troubadours had the highest authority in the Middle Ages, having influenced the development of poetic art, in particular, and the development of philological thought, in general, in adjacent territories. Undoubtedly, there were the closest ties of medieval Provence with Catalonia. However, Italy was also involved in the orbit of the cultural life of Provence. The purpose of the article is to show how Italy and Provence were connected in the 13th century and to what extent Italy contributed to the development and preservation of the grammar of the Provencal literary language of that era.

A Cultural History of Memory in the Middle Ages

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Cultural Life ◽  
Social Fields ◽  
History Of ◽  
Historical Phenomenon ◽  
Almost All ◽  
The Middle Ages

This volume covers the vast field of memory, commemoration and the art of memory in the Middle Ages. Memory was not only a religious, social and historical phenomenon but also a driving factor in cultural life and in the production of art. It played an important role in medieval intellectual, visual and material culture, touching on almost all spheres of personal and social life. Yet the perception of memory did not remain static. The period covered by this volume, 500-1450, was one of enormous change in the way memory was understood, expressed, and valued. The authors of the essays trace the changes in the understanding of memory in its diverse forms and social fields, analysing everyday life as well as politics, philosophy and theology. As can be demonstrated, functions and perceptions evolved over the medieval millennium and laid the foundations for the modern understanding of individual and social memory.

Philosophy with the Slovenes

1993 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 127-137
Author(s):  
Ivan Urbančič
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Central European ◽  
Cultural Life ◽  
European Culture ◽  
First Millennium ◽  
Geographical Position ◽  
Broad Framework ◽  
Political Structures ◽  
The Middle Ages

Slovenia's geographical position has exposed it to the underlying trends of European spiritual and cultural life from the Middle Ages to the present. The adoption of Christianity by the end of the first millennium, the incorporation of medieval political structures, and economic and cultural trends, were paralleled by Slovenes who adopted European culture. Ever since, Slovenia has been part of the broad framework of Central European spiritual and cultural life as it has unfolded and developed up to today.

scholarly journals The world of the fair: cinematographic interpretations / challenges (reflections based on films inspired from Ion Creangă’s works)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Violeta Tipa ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Spiritual Values ◽  
Childhood Memories ◽  
Full Spectrum ◽  
Love Story ◽  
Space And Time ◽  
Cultural Life ◽  
The World ◽  
Commercial Market ◽  
The Middle Ages

The article focuses on the analysis of the fair, which is a reflection of the image of society, its material and spiritual values. The market, which in the Middle Ages attributed to its role as a commercial market an arena of social, political and cultural life as well, becomes a significant space in the dramaturgy of some films. We will research, in particular, the role and functions of the fair in films inspired from Ion Creanga’s works, starting with Amintiri din copilărie/ Childhood Memories (1965) and Mama/Mother (1976) – both directed by Elisabeta Bostan, Povestea dragostei/The Love Story (1977) and Rămășagul/The Wager (1984) directed by Ion Popescu-Gopo and ending with the film Dănilă Prepeleac (1998) in the vision of Tudor Tătaru. The fair with its full spectrum of elements becomes a phenomenon specific to our Romanian space, which identifies with a mundi axis of the world. All the more so in the film, the fair is assigned determining functions in its dramaturgical structure: the drama of the plot is woven, which provokes the characters to new actions; an identity landscape of space and time is prefigured.

scholarly journals Astrological Poetry in late medieval Wales: the case of Dafydd Nanmor’s ‘To God and the planet Saturn’

2008 ◽  
Vol 12 (02) ◽  
pp. 3-22
Author(s):  
Mark Williams
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Late Medieval ◽  
15Th Century ◽  
Cultural Life ◽  
The Middle Ages

This paper examines the major astrological poem which survives from late medieval Wales, Dafydd Nanmor’s ‘Cywydd to God and the planet Saturn’. A close reading of the poem suggests that actual horoscopes, rather than just a vague knowledge of astrology, were accessible in Wales at the end of the Middle Ages. As a result, Dafydd Nanmor’s poem can now be dated to September 1479. This is set in the context of the sociology of English astrology at the end of the Middle Ages; by the middle of the 15th century, astrology was percolating down from the court an universities into the cultural life of the merchant classes, and it is argued that the spread of astrological material to Wales in the same period forms part of the same process.

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