scholarly journals Petro Mohyla's story "about the wonderful old man Grigory Mezhigirsky": representation of the dominant religious philosophy of the Ukrainian Middle Ages and Baroque

2008 ◽  
pp. 221-231
Author(s):  
P.M. Yamchuk
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Cultural Discourse ◽  
Wide Spread ◽  
Religious Philosophy ◽  
Cultural Phenomenon ◽  
Semantic Fields ◽  
Contemporary Study ◽  
The Middle Ages

The desire to see a sign phenomenon in different ways always has a reason to interpret it in an unbiased, panoramic way, and in some places - even allowing for contradictions in its understanding by different participants in the interpretative process. For modern humanities, this disposition is quite understandable, since it follows from its very postmodern nature, thereby defining the semantic semantic fields of the leading humanities. True, it is not so wide-spread, but instead, it is evident that Ukrainian religious thinkers of the Middle Ages and Baroque have interpreted the iconic phenomena more deeply. In the story of Petro Mohyla "On the Wonderful Elder Grigory Mezhyhirsky" the metropolitan Mohyla clearly expresses the need to build before the thinking gaze of the reader his own, immanently religious-philosophical conception of the Divine, which every time would present him not just as an act of manifestation, otherwise he appears before the person, while remaining alone. The contemporary study of this issue in order to integrate its leading concepts in the religious-philosophical and general cultural discourse of the postmodern era has largely determined the relevance of the proposed article. The study of the phenomenon of "leaving" by itself in changing forms of the phenomenon of the Divine is also one of the key ones in the proposed studio, because it expresses the very meaning of the Divine as a religious, and therefore a cultural phenomenon.

The Age of the Earth From Judaic Traditional Literature

1984 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 169-173 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dov Ginsburg
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Present Knowledge ◽  
Religious Philosophy ◽  
The Earth ◽  
The Middle Ages

The calculation of the Earth's age, based on ascribing approximately 40 years to each generation mentioned in the Talmud, results in a total of 5,740 years from the "birth" of Adam. For modern scientists holding traditional viewpoints, this "dating" has led to conflicts which have been explained by various semantic gymnastics. The most common of these is that the Biblical "six days of creation" refers not to days as we know them, but to vast periods of time. However, an examination of the writings of Rabbi Abbahu, Rabbi Abbaye, in the Talmud and Midrash, suggest a concept more akin to our present knowledge. Simon Hahasid in the Talmud estimated the Earth's age as 40,000 years. Based on these early sages, many writers of Jewish religious philosophy in the 10th-12th centuries give ages of the Earth from 50,000 to 100,000 years. Certain Kabbalists from Spain in the 12-13 centuries calculated the Earth's age at 900,000 to 2.5 billion years. A continuation of these concepts are expressed throughout Jewish traditional literature from the Middle Ages to the present by Jewish philosophers and Rabbis such as Maimonides, Rabbi Judah Halevi, Rabbi Israel Lipschitz and others.

The Many Musical Medievalisms of Disney

2020 ◽  
pp. 689-708
Author(s):  
John Haines
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Sleeping Beauty ◽  
Primary Concern ◽  
Common View ◽  
Cultural Phenomenon ◽  
Animated Films ◽  
The Many ◽  
The Middle Ages

This essay argues that the Disney Company is one of today’s main purveyors of medievalism. The idea of Disney as a force for medievalism may strike some academic readers as odd, given the still common view of medievalism as a primarily academic phenomenon. Rather, as argued in the first part of this essay, medievalism is a widespread cultural phenomenon, originating in the sixteenth century, out of which academic medievalism emerged in the eighteenth century. As part of this broader cultural medievalism, the Disney Company has played an increasingly important role in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Rather than the literalist historical medievalism that usually preoccupies academics, the Disney Company has followed a looser approach centered on key stereotypes, in keeping with the earliest and most pervasive concept of the Middle Ages from the sixteenth century onward. In all its medievalist products, ranging from early animated films to Fantasyland’s iconic monument the Sleeping Beauty Castle, Disney has made music a primary concern.

ORDEAL AS A METHOD OF DETERMINING GUILT: HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL ASPECT

2021 ◽  
pp. 9-15
Author(s):  
Вадим Леонидович Афанасьевский
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Natural World ◽  
Ancient World ◽  
Specific Content ◽  
Religious Consciousness ◽  
Cultural Phenomenon ◽  
The People ◽  
Traditional Societies ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Middle Ages

В статье рассматривается ордалия в качестве историко-культурного феномена. Автор исходит из установки, согласно которой ордалия представляет собой определенный культурный текст, несущий конкретное содержание, позволяющее получить знания о функционировании предправа традиционных обществ. В Древнем мире и Средневековье судьи для определения вины/невиновности прибегали к процедуре ордалии: жребий, судебный поединок, испытание раскаленным железом, кипятком, водой. Сама процедура ордалии имела своим основанием глубоко религиозное сознание человека Древнего мира и Средних веков. Люди Средневековья были убеждены в том, что за всеми явлениями природного мира стоят сверхъестественные, трансцендентные силы, которые и вершат судьбы природных стихий, человека и человечества. Именно поэтому процедура ордалии предполагала, что вынесение судебного решения, особенно по запутанным делам, необходимо передать в руки божественных сил, то есть должен свершиться так называемый «божий суд». Смысл ордалии коренился в убеждении «Бог всегда на стороне правого!». Соответственно исход поединка и результаты различных испытаний представляют собой божественную волю, реализацию справедливости и правоты. Именно поэтому результаты ордалии по своей сущности сакральны. В связи с этим феномен ордалии органично вписывается в реальность Древнего мира и Средневековья. The article considers ordalia as a historical and cultural phenomenon. The author proceeds from the position that the ordalia is a certain cultural text that carries a specific content that allows you to gain knowledge about the functioning of the pre-rule of traditional societies. In the period of antiquity and the Middle Ages, judges resorted to the ordeal procedure to determine guilt/innocence: a lot, a judicial duel, a test with hot jelly, boiling water, water. The ordeal procedure itself was based on the deeply religious consciousness of the man of the Ancient world and the Middle Ages. The people of the Middle Ages were deeply convinced that behind all the phenomena of the natural world there are supernatural, transcendent forces that decide the fate of the natural elements, man and humanity. That is why the ordeal procedure assumed that the adjudication of court decisions, especially in complicated cases, must be transferred to the hands of divine forces, that is, the so-called «God's judgment» must take place. The meaning of the ordeal was rooted in the belief «God is always on the side of the right!». Accordingly, the outcome of the duel and the results of various tests represent the divine will, the realization of justice and rightness. That is why the results of the ordeal are essentially sacred. In this regard, the phenomenon of Ordalia fits seamlessly into the reality of the Ancient world and the Middle Ages.

scholarly journals On the Asceticism of Holy Fools (from the History of Hagiographic Topoi)

Slovene ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 456-473
Author(s):  
Tatiana R. Rudi
Keyword(s):  
Aggressive Behavior ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Essential Elements ◽  
Behavioral Strategies ◽  
Old Russian ◽  
Cultural Phenomenon ◽  
Historical Continuity ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Middle Ages

The present research is based on material from Old Russian lives of holy fools: Isaacius of the Cave Monastery, Procopius and John of Ustyug, Basil the Blessed, John Bolshoy Kolpak (Big Cap), Simon of Yuryevets, John Vlasaty (the Hairy), Maximus of Totma, Procopius of Vyatka, John Samsonovich of Solvychegodsk, Artemius Tretyak, and others. The main ascetic motifs that determine this type of hagiographic texts are examined in the context of hagiographic topoi. Many ascetic motifs of the lives of holy fools, which is an element of the system of hagiographic topoi, demonstrate kinship with ascetic motifs of the lives of holy monks (e.g., severe fasting, wearing chains, suffering from cold and heat, etc.), and in some cases also with the lives of martyrs (e.g., fire motifs). At the same time, some ascetic practices described in the lives of holy fools are rather provocative (nudity or aggressive behavior) or take place in a veiled form (e.g., hidden fasts) in accordance with an emphasis on the unusual feat for the sake of Christ. The aim of this feat was to hide one’s virtues. A focus on examples, which is one of the essential elements of the structure of hagiographic texts generally and of the lives of holy fools in particular, reflects a historical continuity of the extreme feat as such. The explanation of this cultural phenomenon could lie in the fact that Old Russian hagiographers, as well as their heroes, followed the most important ethical and aesthetic guideline of their time—the principle of imitatio, which to a great extent determined literary and behavioral strategies of the Middle Ages.

Systems applied for divorce in Islam and Christianity

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (01) ◽  
pp. 225-231
Author(s):  
Sabina Mirzoeva
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Direct Effect ◽  
Belief Systems ◽  
Wide Spread ◽  
Islam And Christianity ◽  
Islamic Belief ◽  
Age Of Marriage ◽  
The Middle Ages

The article is devoted to the divorce systems of Christianity and Islamic Laws in the Middle Ages. It is mentioned in the article that the age of marriage has direct effect on possibility of divorce. In general, different approaches of the two wide-spread monotheistic religions to the notion of marriage are handled and terms, reasons and cases of divorce in the Christian and Islamic belief systems are subject to research in the article.

A Middle English Treatise on Hermeneutics: Harley Ms. 2276, 32V-35V

PMLA ◽  
1950 ◽  
Vol 65 (4) ◽  
pp. 590-600
Author(s):  
R. H. Bowers
Keyword(s):  
Fifteenth Century ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Middle English ◽  
Western World ◽  
Cultural Phenomenon ◽  
University Of Paris ◽  
Allegorical Interpretation ◽  
The University ◽  
Holy Writ ◽  
The Middle Ages

The fourfold interpretation of Holy Writ or of other authoritative texts, through the technique of exegesis commonly known as allegorical interpretation, was a well known cultural phenomenon throughout the Middle Ages.3 The practice of allegorical interpretation itself was well developed in the Western world by the time of Plato,4 and the fourfold method may be regarded as a further refinement of this technique. It constituted a tradition of remarkable vitality: as late as the early fifteenth century we find Erasmus inveighing against its abuses in The Praise of Folly with as much emphasis as Dante had defended it in his famed letter to Can Grande in an earlier century. It was taught at the University of Paris during the Middle Ages5.

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