Niezwykłe małżeńskie życie codzienne w suplikach do Penitencjarii Apostolskiej z metropolii gnieźnieńskiej w XV wieku

The Apostolic Penitentiary, besides clerical, Church and religious matters, also dealt with matrimonial matters. The jurisdiction of the Apostolic Penitentiary included mainly granting dispensations from matrimonial impediments, but also absolution when the marriage was contracted with the knowledge of the existence of an impediment and resolving doubtful or unclear cases. The most common marriage problem in the province of Gniezno was the impediment of consanguinity in 4th and 3rd degrees. However, among the marriage cases we also find stories of domestic violence, complicated arrangements between relatives, acts of bigamy and love stories. All this took place in relatively narrow groups of cousins and people related by affinity to each other.

Plant Stories are Love Stories Too: Moss + Curation

In 2020, after a year of dreaming, we officially embarked on the development of Moss Projects: Curatorial Learning + Research, an educational and philosophical space that aims at peeling away the colonial layers of the art museum, within the context of Turtle Island (now North America), to imagine something else. This initiative supports peer-to-peer pedagogies alongside Indigenous, Black, and People of Colour-led and allied inquiry and practices, valuing diverse knowledge systems and modes of organization beyond dominant parameters of curation, art, and art history. As white settler and Black Canadian curators, we are founding Moss Projects as a collaborative, reflexive, and praxis-based process, utilizing our professional resources for curatorial incubation and to establish spaces and mechanisms for sharing cross-cultural and cross-disciplinary methodologies.

Books in Internet Recommendations (based on the video in Tik-Tok)

Despite the traditional opposition of reading literature and the active use of social networks, the latter are becoming a source of reading recommendations. This article discusses publications under the hashtag #bookselection on the TikTok social network and analyzes thematic profiles. Most authors create their posts to recommend books and 17%, on the contrary, write about unsuccessful, in their opinion, books. The most common genres of literature in TikTok video are fantasy (34%), love stories (27%) and life novels (21%). We also analyzed the reaction of users (according to the comments they left) to such videos in their recommendations, 82% of comments are positive. People are ready to share their opinions on books and read books on such video recommendations.

Rethinking Love as Passion: Jeanette Winterson’s The Daylight Gate

Jeanette Winterson’s magical realist love stories, such as The Passion, have been read by some critics in terms of a tendency to idealise romance as a transformative passion that transcends social structures. In this article, I propose that Winterson’s recent gothic novel, The Daylight Gate, critically revises a set of Romantic themes first broached in The Passion, exposing and interrogating the fantasy scenario at the centre of romantic love. This narrative about magic and the devil explores the ambivalence of passion as possession—diabolical and contractual—before using this to critique the desire for transcendence implied by “undying love”. Metaphysics becomes a metaphor for metapsychology, where the Romantic motif of undying love as connected to fatal desire is complicated by a traversal of the fantasy of the union of two immortal souls. These revisions have the effect of reversing the implications of Winterson’s earlier treatment of romantic love, turning it back from the personal towards engagement with the political.

An Analysis on Cultural Values of The Love Eterne and Titanic: Based on Hofstede's Cultural Dimensions Theory

The Love Eterne in China and Titanic in the United States are both very classic love movies in history. The background of the two love stories do have something in common, but due to the characters’ different choices, the end is entirely different. This paper attempts to make a comparison between Chinese value orientation and American ones based on Hofstede’s cultural dimensions, so as to find out the cultural differences between the two countries.