scholarly journals Catholic Patriotism and Suffering in the Wartime Letters of the Belgian Mystic Berthe Petit

2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 161-189
Author(s):  
Tine Van Osselaer
Keyword(s):  
Letter Writing ◽  
Great War ◽  
Shared Experiences ◽  
The Future ◽  
Mystical Experiences ◽  
The Great War

Abstract This article focuses on the use of patriotic feelings and shared experiences of suffering to promote a new devotion. Studying her wartime letter-writing campaign, we examine the strategies that the Belgian mystic Berthe Petit (1870-1943) adopted to promote the devotion of the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary. By examining the letter writing of Petit and her father confessor during the Great War, we will show how, in 1909, the campaign initially focused on her own mystical experiences and corporeal suffering, but shifted during the war to emphasize that the future of Belgium, France and Britain, was linked to their consecration to the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary. Stressing the historicity of the mystic, we show how the war (1) provided new opportunities for mystically inspired, non-approved devotions; and (2) how the uncertainties and sorrows of the Great War offered female mystics new openings and lines of thought to explore.

scholarly journals Filmowy Mińsk (1915–1918) – polskie doświadczenie podczas Wielkiej Wojny

2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (35) ◽  
pp. 147-158
Author(s):  
Mariusz Guzek
Keyword(s):  
Great War ◽  
World War ◽  
World War One ◽  
National Community ◽  
Provincial City ◽  
White Spots ◽  
The Future ◽  
Polish Culture ◽  
The Great War

Polish film life in the Eastern Borderlands of the former Republic of Poland is replete with numerous white spots. During World War One, however, activity was quite intense, as evidenced by book-length studies on Vilnius, Lviv and even Kiev. Minsk, the future capital of Belarus, also had its own film-related Polish culture. The article focuses on the functioning of Minsk cinemas and their repertoire, as well as the Polish accents associated with them, which repeatedly had a mobilizing and identitarian character around which the national community of this provincial city was organized. Minsk’s border status means its cinematographic ancestry can be claimed by various national cinematographies, including Russian and Belarusian, but the source query and resulting findings clearly indicate that in the years of the Great War, this center was most strongly associated with Polish culture

Politics of the Bayamón Bloc and the Partido Socialista

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kirwin R. Shaffer
Keyword(s):  
Puerto Rican ◽  
Electoral Politics ◽  
Great War ◽  
Social Revolution ◽  
The Future ◽  
Military Draft ◽  
The Great War ◽  
The City

This chapter continues examining the relationships between anarchists and their sometime-allies, sometime-antagonists in the emerging Partido Socialista (PS) in the 1910s. Here, the chapter considers the agitations arising from the radical bloc in the city of Bayamón. The Bayamón anarchists continued their agitation throughout the 1910s, sometimes working with Socialists but also becoming less conciliatory and more rigid in their quest for an anarchist social revolution. By 1918, anarchists centered in the city took an increasingly hard line against all aspects of the PS—especially concerning the relevance of electoral politics for the future of Puerto Rican workers, the appropriate responses to militarism, and the new military draft for the Great War that some PS leaders such as the elected Socialist senator Santiago Iglesias supported.

The Causes of the Great War

1915 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 16-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward Raymond Turner
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Great War ◽  
Half Century ◽  
The People ◽  
The Future ◽  
History Of ◽  
Military Strength ◽  
The Great War ◽  
The Middle Ages

In 1806 Prussia engaged in war with Napoleon. The swiftest of his triumphs followed. In two months the Prussians had surrendered their fortresses, and seen annihilated the greatness which Europe had failed to crush in the time of Frederick the Great. A period of humiliation followed, and for some years the people lived under the conqueror's yoke.Deliverance came when Napoleon, stretching too far his power, and arousing the spirit of peoples, was defeated by Europe in arms. The liberation which alone Prussia could not have accomplished, was yet wrought partly by herself, for deliverance was preceded by regeneration in which her military system was fundamentally reformed. But it may be that what remained after all as the principal heritage from these years was the abiding sense that Prussia had suffered from being weak, and that only through military strength could there be safety in the future.The expansion and greatness of Prussia left unfulfilled the old idea of a united Germany. Through the middle ages and down to this time Germany had remained disunited, and weak and despised because of it. The smallest states had now disappeared, but still there were larger ones, grouped under Austria in vague and shadowy empire. And the history of Germany in the half century which followed the downfall of Napoleon is a record of yearning and striving on the part of people filled with distant memories, and noble aspiration after that strength and union which had come to their neighbors and yet been denied to themselves.

scholarly journals The importance of unimportant language

1970 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 4 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan Blommaert ◽  
Piia Varis
Keyword(s):  
First World War ◽  
Letter Writing ◽  
Great War ◽  
World War ◽  
The First World War ◽  
The Great War ◽  
First World

In a recent paper, the Australian historian, Martyn Lyons (2013), reviews his attempts to study ‘history from below’, using what can be called grassroots writing by French and Italian soldiers of the Great War. Lyons remarks that the ‘First World War produced a flood of letter-writing by peasants whose literary capacity has often been underestimated’ (Lyons 2013: 5). In France, no less than 10,000 million postal items were dispatched during the war, huge numbers of those being letters and cards written by soldiers from the frontlines to their loved ones. Lyons comments further:Soldiers’ letters followed standard ritualistic formulas, giving and asking for news about health, discussing letters and postcards sent and received, sending greetings to many relatives and neighbors. As a result, their writing leaves us with an overwhelming sense of banality. (Lyons 2013: 22)

The Future of UAVs: Lessons From the ‘Great War’

2016 ◽  
Vol 34 (4) ◽  
pp. 257-262 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Ashkenazi
Keyword(s):  
Great War ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Great War
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