scholarly journals Middle Ages Christian Colour Precious Stones Symbols in the Context of a new Conception of Symbol as a Synergetic Linguo-Cultural Hyper Sign

2021 ◽  
pp. 275-286
Author(s):  
Oleksandr Oguy ◽  
Olha Ivasiuk ◽  
Galyna Ivasiuk
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Systematic Research ◽  
Cultural Stereotypes ◽  
Individual Interpretation ◽  
Precious Stones

The article focuses on systematic research of Christian colour precious stones symbols in the context of a new conception of symbol as a synergetic lingo cultural hyper sign. It was pointed out that colours as hyper symbols, which were realized through precious stones, accepted symbolic use typical for Christianity. It was also proved that in Middle Ages colour was an expressive characteristic for precious stones depicting in literature. In general symbols were defined as complicated cultural phenomena depending upon both individual interpretation and upon the level of cultural stereotypes.

Christian Symbolism of Color in the Middle Ages in the Context of a New Concept of the Symbol as a Hypermark

2019 ◽  
pp. 188-210
Author(s):  
Oleksandr Oguy ◽  
Olha Ivasiuk
Keyword(s):  
Dynamic System ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Systematic Research ◽  
Cultural Stereotypes ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Individual Interpretation ◽  
The Middle Ages

The article focuses on systematic research of Christian colour symbols as well as upon definition of symbol as a hyper sign which represents certain concepts, ideas or phenomena accepted in some communities. It was pointed out that colours as super symbols, which are realized through certain images (visions), pictures and clothes or even through a word, accepted symbolic use typical for Christianity. It was also proved that in Middle Ages colour defined status in clothes and its depicting in literature. At the same time colour was an expressive characteristic for dynamic liturgy as a complicated dynamic system of different signs (images-icons, symbols and indexes). In general symbols were defined as complicated cultural phenomena depending upon both individual interpretation and upon the level of cultural stereotypes.

A brief history of suicidal behaviour

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Navneet Kapur ◽  
Robert Goldney
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Mental Illness ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Suicidal Behaviour ◽  
Social Influences ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Systematic Research ◽  
History Of ◽  
Over Time ◽  
The Middle Ages

This chapter places suicide and suicidal behaviour in a European historical context. Although suicide has been documented throughout history, its meaning and functions have varied over time. In the Middle Ages, suicide was regarded as sinful but, subsequently, was conceptualized in terms of social influences or mental illness. Systematic research into suicidal behaviour has been undertaken for more than two centuries. The contributions of Morselli, using statistical and epidemiological techniques, were particularly notable. Many of the accepted social and psychiatric antecedents of suicide we talk about today were well described by the nineteenth century.

“Formerly a Blasphemer and a Man of Violence”

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 232-252
Author(s):  
Benjamin J. Lappenga ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Paper Briefly ◽  
Cultural Stereotypes ◽  
Timothy 1 ◽  
The Common ◽  
Common Era ◽  
The Church ◽  
The Middle Ages

In 1 Timothy 1:13, the author frames Paul’s former life in Judaism as that of a “blasphemer, persecutor, and man of violence,” but then proceeds to urge Timothy to “fight the good fight” (1:18) by following Paul’s example of turning opponents over to Satan “so that they may learn not to blaspheme” (1:20). Although this discourse is regularly perceived as promoting nonviolence, this paper traces the legacies of violence in which the passage has participated. First, it considers the letter’s first audiences, for whom the charge of blasphemy appears as one of a larger set of cultural stereotypes the author uses to bolster prejudice against the rivals. Second, it situates this discourse about blasphemy within the (false) portrayal of Paul vis-à-vis Judaism that was perpetuated during the struggles between the church and the synagogue in the early centuries of the common era. Third, the paper briefly traces the ways that Christian rhetoric against Jews as blasphemers participated in acts of violence against Jews from the Middle Ages through the twentieth century. The paper concludes with a constructive critique of some readings of Pauline texts today, even those that overtly set out to understand these texts in a nonviolent manner.

Pierres précieuses – signe contesté de l’Orient dans le Roman d’Eracle de Gautier d’Arras (XIIe siècle)

2021 ◽  
pp. 57-68
Author(s):  
Katarzyna Dybeł
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
French Literature ◽  
12Th Century ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Precious Stones ◽  
The Middle Ages

The article analyses the motifs of precious stones present in the 12th century work of Gautier d’Arras, The Eracle Romance (ca. 1176-1184), often called “Byzantine romance”. This motif shows the influence of the Byzantine aesthetics on the French literature of the Middle Ages. Gautier d’Arras assimilates it, but at the same time modifies its sense. He re-defines the courtly ethos and diminishes the aesthetic character of the motif, typical of the oriental poetics. Precious stones are the contested sign of the East because their beauty is understood as the determinant of Virtue rather than outer beauty. This is a new face of the exotic – not only tamed but also moralised. This modification of the generally accepted hierarchy of values enriches the sapiential, moral and formative aspects of the work.

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