scholarly journals Le coeur mangé à plusieurs sauces

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Monique Moser-Verrey
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Literary Genres ◽  
Triangular Relationship ◽  
The Middle Ages ◽  
The Way

The « eaten heart » is a scandalous meal that is to be found in literature from its very start. This story rests on various narrative configurations and topoï rooted in a triangular relationship. The heroine’s lover offers her his heart. But her husband turns it into a dish. She actually enjoys this dish but dies as soon as she finds out that she ate her lovers heart. This study follows the variations of the topos both through time and literary genres from the troubadours’s courtly poems all the way to Sade’s pervers stories. The tragical subject matter also triggered parodies, who either magnified the cannibalism or rejected the appalling meal, preferring a comical resolution. It appears however that from the Middle Ages to the dawn of Romanticism lovers show very little appetite. Their amorous communion truly transcends all greedy misfortunes of this world.

Equivocation and Casuistry

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emily Corran
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Chanson De Geste ◽  
Main Subject ◽  
Literary Genres ◽  
Moral Ambiguity ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Middle Ages ◽  
The Way

The doctrine of equivocation and mental reservation has been caricatured as an invention of early modern academia, but it was a familiar concept in the Middle Ages. This chapter explores the range of ways in which thought about equivocation appeared in medieval culture. A number of literary genres discussed equivocation, including hagiography, chanson de geste, and romance. The way in which they treated the subject varied according to genre and the requirements of the narrative, but many of these texts highlighted the moral ambiguity of equivocation, especially the chanson de geste Ami et Amile and the romances Tristan and Cligès. Clerical writing on equivocation, the main subject of this study, shared important aspects of the literary treatment of the subject, but in comparison focused more explicitly on pastoral questions of sin and absolution.

Ritual and reality in the early medieval ordines

1975 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
pp. 41-51 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janet L. Nelson
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Church And State ◽  
Early Medieval ◽  
Know How ◽  
Full Picture ◽  
The Middle Ages ◽  
The Way

To know what was generally believed in all ages, the way is to consult the liturgies, not any private man’s writings.’ John Selden’s maxim, which surely owed much to his own pioneering work as a liturgist, shows a shrewd appreciation of the significance of the medieval ordines for the consecration of kings. Thanks to the more recent efforts of Waitz, Eichmann, Schramm and others, this material now forms part of the medievalist’s stock in trade; and much has been written on the evidence which the ordines provide concerning the nature of kingship, and the interaction of church and state, in the middle ages. The usefulness of the ordines to the historian might therefore seem to need no further demonstration or qualification. But there is another side to the coin. The value of the early medieval ordines can be, not perhaps overestimated, but misconstrued. ‘The liturgies’ may indeed tell us ‘what was generally believed’—but we must first be sure that we know how they were perceived and understood by their participants, as well as by their designers. They need to be correlated with other sources, and as often as possible with ‘private writings’ too, before the full picture becomes intelligible.

The Rise of the Dutch Spice Trade in the Middle Ages

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 10-12
Author(s):  
Wei Zheng ◽  
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Medieval Europe ◽  
Spice Trade ◽  
The Middle Ages ◽  
The Way

For medieval Europe, spices have always been of great significance, so the spice trade has become the object of competition for various countries in Western Europe. With the improvement of navigation technology, countries obsessed with spices have opened up the way to explore the origin of spices and monopolize the spices trade. Among them, the most typical country is the Netherlands. From the perspective of the spice trade, this paper discusses how the beneficiary of the spice trade, the Netherlands, has become a generation of marine hegemons by transferring spice to monopolizing the spice trade.

The life and times of Giambattista Morgagni, F. R. S. 1682-1771

1952 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 217-243
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
World Power ◽  
Old City ◽  
Adriatic Coast ◽  
Northern Plain ◽  
Infinite Variety ◽  
The Middle Ages ◽  
The Way

On a northern plain of Lombardy, backed by the Euganean hills and festooned with gardens and vineyards stands the old city of Padua. Its gleaming towers and Byzantine domes1 reflect a history whose origins are lost in antiquity. A thriving city in Roman times, the birthplace of Livy (50 b.c.), it suffered severely from the invasions of the barbarians for it stood directly in the way of the restless migrations of peoples from east to west. Along the Adriatic coast ran the great Roman road, south and west to Altinum, Concordia, Aquileia and the pass of ‘ Fontes frigidae ’ ; along this route surged Attila and the Huns, the Lombards, Franks and Hungarians leaving behind them a trail of devastation. The Middle Ages saw Padua, a Guelfic commune, struggling against local tyrants and an infinite variety of combines of neighbouring jealous towns, rising to fame under the rule of beneficent princes, declining in shame from the persecution of cruel and inhuman tyrants and eventually condemned to mediocrity as Venice rose to world power. Within its walls lived and died a saint, Anthony, the most celebrated of the followers of St Francis of Assissi. Here, too, flowered the genius of the Florentine Giotto and the Padovan Mantegna.

Capitalism in Medieval Islam

1969 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-96 ◽  
Author(s):  
Subhi Y. Labib
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
The Other ◽  
Islamic Culture ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Medieval Islam ◽  
Holy Book ◽  
The Middle Ages ◽  
The Way

He who looks for the term “capitalism” in the Islamic sources of the Middle Ages will look in vain. On the other hand, the term “capital” has been known since the beginning of Islamic culture. Even in the Holy Book of Islam, in the Sūrat al-Baḳara, the idea of capital appears in connection with trade, business, and the illicit practice of loaning for profit—usury. “O you who believe, keep your duty to Allah and relinquish what remains [due] from usury, if you are believers. But if you do [it] not, then be apprised of war from Allah and His messenger; and if you repent, then you shall have your capital. Wrong not, and you shall not be wronged.” In the same Sūrah God forbids usury but not Bai', trading, or buying. At another place God's commands clear the way for investments. “O you who believe, devour not your property among yourselves by illegal methods, although you may engage in trading by mutual consent. And kill not your people. Surely Allah is merciful to you.”The Islamic merchant tried to follow this system of ethics.

scholarly journals The tradition of the procuress in Memories of my sad whores

2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (02) ◽  
pp. 187-201
Author(s):  
Hernando Motato Camelo
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Young Women ◽  
Early 20Th Century ◽  
Literary Traditions ◽  
The Middle Ages ◽  
The Way

The purpose of this essay is to trace the way in which the character of Spanish brothel life is treated during the Middle Ages and Renaissance. This character defines his love affairs, seduces and attracts the young women to have love encounters with their suitors through deceits and love potions. García Márquez adopts these literary traditions in the early 20th century in Barranquilla and enriches them with characters such as the procuress and maid Delgadina.

scholarly journals El nomen sacrum ihs como símbolo de la crucifixión en el Sermón de la Circuncisión del Señor de san Vicente Ferrer

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 ◽  
pp. 16
Author(s):  
María Luz Mandingorra Llavata
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Jesus Christ ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
The Public ◽  
Life Problems ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Middle Ages ◽  
The Way

Resum: El nomen sacrum ihs se hallaba presente en infinidad de manifestaciones artísticas y objetos de la vida cotidiana durante la Edad Media, por lo que era bien conocido por los fieles. El objetivo del presente artículo es mostrar de qué modo san Vicente Ferrer se sirve de esta abreviatura como símbolo de la crucifixión de Jesucristo con el fin de fomentar la devoción al nombre Iesus y erradicar el recurso a adivinos y sortílegos. Para ello, analizaremos el sermón de la Circuncisión del Señor predicado por el maestro dominico y estableceremos la conexión de los elementos integrantes del texto con representaciones coetáneas de la crucifixión.Paraules clau: san Vicente Ferrer, predicación, Nomina Sacra, crucifixión, historia de la cultura escrita Abstract: The nomen sacrum ihs was present in many paintings as well as other artifacts during the Middle Ages, therefore, it was very well known by the public. The aim of this paper is to show the way Saint Vincent Ferrer uses this abbreviation as a symbol of the Crucifixion of Jesus Christ in order to increase the devotion to the Name of Jesus and prevent people from consulting diviners and sorcerers to solve daily life problems. To this end, we analyse the Sermon of the Circumcision of the Lord preached by the Dominican master and establish the relationship between the elements that compose the text and some contemporary images of the Crucifixion.Keywords: Saint Vincent Ferrer, preaching, Nomina Sacra, crucifixion, history of literacy

The Ballad Revival and the Rise of Literary History

2020 ◽  
pp. 83-97
Author(s):  
David Matthews
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Literary History ◽  
Early Nineteenth Century ◽  
Nineteenth Century Literature ◽  
Century Literature ◽  
The Middle Ages ◽  
The Way

This chapter describes the rediscovery and reinvention of the ballad in the 1760s and 1770s, tracing the later impact of the resultant conception of the Middle Ages on nineteenth-century literature and scholarship. The chapter traces the way in which a notion of the ‘Gothic’ was differentiated, in the early nineteenth century, from the ‘medieval’ (a word newly coined around 1817) and goes on to look at the way in which the early beginnings of English literary history resulted from the antiquarian researches of the eighteenth century. It concludes with reflections on the extent to which it can be said there was truly a revival of the ballad, and posits that there was instead a revaluation something already there, with a new conferral of prestige.

Modus Significandi

1979 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 159-180 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. G. Kelly
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Parallel Development ◽  
Basic Concepts ◽  
Theology And Philosophy ◽  
The Middle Ages ◽  
The Way

Summary During the Middle Ages, the various sciences shared both basic concepts and terminology without losing their autonomy. Between 1260 and 1330 grammatica speculativa, which had evolved under the influence of dialectic, asserted its independence while keeping the terminology common to philosophy and theology. This mixed autonomy and interdependence is demonstrated by the evolution and use of the term, modus significandi. The term was not proper to grammar: it is found in discussions of the sign in theology and philosophy. In these discussions, the philosopher or theologian in question often rested his case on grammatical considerations. At the beginning of our period, modus significandi is opposed in grammar to significatum, while, after 1280 or thereabouts, the significatum is termed modus significandi passivus and the modus significandi becomes modus significandi activus. It would seem that this change is due to certain implications in the way in which the Latin gerund was employed by scholastic theologians. In any case, the term, modus significandi, undergoes a parallel development in grammar, theology and philosophy; and, at the same time, is studied under different aspects according to the discipline in question. In grammar at the beginning of our period, in appearance modus significandi is a morphological concept, while, in the work of Gerson (1426), it is certainly of syntactic relevance.

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