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Mandy Todd Moore

Hildegard of Bingen - 13 views

As a composer, Hildegard's music serves as one of the first examples of a move towards more elaborate type of composition. Her music is historically significant because, beyond being one of very f...

Hildegard of Bingen Medieval women

started by Mandy Todd Moore on 01 Feb 11 3 follow-ups, last by Mandy Todd Moore on 23 Feb 11
R. J. Hernandez-Diaz

The Best Gothic Cathedrals in World - Associated Content from Yahoo! - associatedconten... - 2 views

www.associatedcontent.com/...othic_cathedrals_in_world.html

Gothic Cathedrals Gothic Cathedrals

shared by R. J. Hernandez-Diaz on 21 Feb 11 - No Cached
    • R. J. Hernandez-Diaz
      R. J. Hernandez-Diaz on 21 Feb 11
       
      Type these into Arounder to get a better look at them.
  • Chartres Cathedral of France
  • The Salisbury Cathedral of England,
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  • Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela of Spain
Sandy Johnson

Michelangelo's David - 8 views

I was at Caesars Palace on the Las Vegas Strip yesterday for work - ran into a fullsize replica of David. He is everywhere!!

Michelangelo David

started by Sandy Johnson on 15 Feb 11 2 follow-ups, last by Sandy Johnson on 19 Feb 11
R. J. Hernandez-Diaz

Donation of Constantine - 10 views

I think I understand: you're saying Dante's use of "Constantine" here equates Papal worldliness and this is an artifact for the Donation of Constantine. I see that connection.

Donation of Constantine Papacy Church and State

started by JK Melton on 30 Jan 11 1 follow-up, last by R. J. Hernandez-Diaz on 18 Feb 11
sraven

Julian of Norwich - 4 views

www.catholic.org/...saint.php

Julian of Norwich pilgrimage mystic saint monasticism Medieval women

shared by sraven on 16 Jan 11 - No Cached
  • sraven on 16 Jan 11
     
    What I found fascinating about "Saint" Julian of Norwich is that she is not actually a saint, meaning she was never officially beatified by the Catholic Church. But that is not the only important thing about this Medieval mystic/victim of a huge Catholic clerical error. Julian lived in the 1300's during the plague or "Black Death." France was fighting England in the 100 Years War which Spain joined in 1372. Julian was living in Norwich and was so ill one night everyone thought she was going to die. On May 8th after a priest brought her a crucifix, she began to commune with God and had God give her messages. One such message was concerning a small nut to which God explained that even the smallest things were being cared for/watched after by God. This information was paraphrased from The Loyola Treasury of Saints: From the Time of Jesus to the Present Day, David Self. Loyola Press: Chicago, 2003 pages 150-151. The artifact I found concerning Julian of Norwich is of a video posted on youtube which shows the pilgrimage site for Julian in Norwich. This week we learned that the Church in the Middles Ages used pilgrimages as a means to get money from lay people. It is my hope that Lady Julia's pilgrimage site is more about history/memory and spirituality and not about capital. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNB_oBVUniA
  • R. J. Hernandez-Diaz on 18 Feb 11
     
    Ostensibly, she was never canonized or beatified because too little is known about her life. The Catholic Church requires verification of heroic virtues. Your artifact made me feel like I was visiting Julian's cell myself--well chosen.
R. J. Hernandez-Diaz

Basel - derr Prediger-Totentanz - 2 views

www.hausen-im-wiesental.de/...basel_totentanz_repro.htm

The Great Mortality Black Death

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  • R. J. Hernandez-Diaz on 17 Feb 11
     
    Here's a full color version of Tottentanz.
thegreatfulred

Black Death: Dance of the Dead - 3 views

upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/eb/Totentanz_LübeckR.gif

Black Death Dance Dead The Great Mortality

shared by thegreatfulred on 17 Feb 11 - No Cached
  • thegreatfulred on 17 Feb 11
     
    A plague during the late 1300s that is estimated to have wiped out nearly half of the European population. The details of this event were outlined in the week's lecture and the great link to the history channels documentary about the event. For my ID I wanted to look at some of the online visual media that is associated to the black plague and helped me understand its devastating effects on the population during this time. The historical significance of this particular ID is one of the greatest catastrophes on a given human population in the history of this planet. Understanding its influences on the demographics of the population really help shape the opinion of the immediate history to fallow as well as the implications of this type of event has on the world population as a whole. The artifact I found was the Totentanz by Bernt Notke really summarizes the my thoughts on this event as being completely neutralizing the class system and "leveling" the playing field so to speak. This is represented by Death dancing among individuals and what struck me as most intriguing was the dead like appearance of the living and the liveliness of the dead.
  • R. J. Hernandez-Diaz on 17 Feb 11
     
    Great artifact! Yes, the Totentanz (toten = death, tanz = death) is a quite famous painting depicting an outbreak of plague in the 15th century, making it clear that plague continues to have effects on European society for centuries after the initial outbreak in 1347. Notice how in this painting every member of society is depicted, from the Pope and the Emperor on the left all the way down to a baby on the right.
JK Melton

Seven Sacraments - 4 views

The Catechism of the Catholic Church teaches that sacraments are "efficacious signs of grace, instituted by Christ and entrusted to the Church, by which divine life is dispensed to us. The visible ...

Seven Sacraments Church and State

started by JK Melton on 17 Feb 11 no follow-up yet
Alwen Bledsoe

Mysticism - 6 views

Mysticism-through this form of spirituality, the believer sought to directly experience a merging, special union, or deep intimacy with God. Mysticism was a prevalent aspect of Medieval spiritualit...

mysticism Hadewich Beguines

started by Alwen Bledsoe on 09 Feb 11 no follow-up yet
JK Melton

Peter Lombards' Four Books of Sentences - 4 views

Written between 1147 and 1150, these four books are what made Lombard famous. They are a long series of questions and answers in which Lombard addresses just about everything that the teachings of...

Peter Lombard Four Sentences Scholasticisim

started by JK Melton on 05 Feb 11 no follow-up yet
thegreatfulred

Peace of God and the Truce of God - 5 views

The Peace of God and the Truce of God, as a movement I feel fits in nicely with our discussions, lecture and readings of the week. Simply the movement was an attempt to spread the word to the sec...

Peace of God Truce of God

started by thegreatfulred on 31 Jan 11 no follow-up yet
sraven

Heloise - 3 views

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Héloïse Heloise Abélard love-affair Père-Lachaise Cemetery tomb Medieval women

shared by sraven on 30 Jan 11 - No Cached
  • sraven on 30 Jan 11
     
    I quickly realized that the life of Heloise was more complicated than I had ever dreamed. Heloise was a nun who later became an abbess. But by her own report she only became a nun because Abelard told her to. Heloise and Abelard had a rip-roaring love affair and Heloise gave birth to his son. Abelard either married Heloise or intended to marry her but was castrated probably on order of Heloise's uncle Canon Fulbert. After all, who would not be a little angry that their young niece was "taken advantage of" by an older scholar? Thus once again Heloise's choices and desires were controlled by an older more powerful man. Inexplicably Abelard's castration ends their physical love-affair but begins their spiritual struggle/love affair with Christ and secures their places in history with the writing of over 100 "love letters" between teacher and student, monk and nun...former lovers. I included a picture of their shared tomb although whether Heloise is actually in this tomb is unclear. "Héloïse's place of burial is uncertain. According to the Père-Lachaise Cemetery, the remains of both lovers were transferred from the Oratory in the early 19th century and were reburied in the famous crypt on their grounds.The Oratory of the Paraclete claims Héloïse and Abélard are buried there and that what exists in Père-Lachaise is merely a monument. There are still others who believe that while Abélard is buried in the crypt at Père-Lachaise, Héloïse's remains are elsewhere" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heloise_abbess).
  • sraven on 30 Jan 11
     
    I feel like the tomb is symbolic that even in her death, this strong intelligent woman who knew all the classical languages and was a gifted writer is still the subject of soap-opera-esk romantic controversy, and captures the imagination of the world. We insist that these star-crossed lovers should be together in death even though they spent more time vowed to Jesus in life. (See also the Cambridge Companion to Medieval Women's Writing. pgs. 161-171).
Sandy Johnson

Gregory I - 12 views

I wasn't sure if you knew of this site...I have downloaded a bunch of nice old stuff!! Downloading a pdf goes very nice on the kindle for easy reading.

Pope Gregory I Gregory the Great Papacy

started by Sandy Johnson on 27 Jan 11 2 follow-ups, last by Sandy Johnson on 28 Jan 11
Sandy Johnson

Poor Clares - 10 views

The Poor Clares was a convent founded by Saint Clare in 1212 in Assisi, Italy. She was a noble woman who left her home and followed St. Francis of Assisi. Her family initially attempted to take her...

Poor Clares St. Francis of Asisi Clare Assisi monasticism

started by Sandy Johnson on 22 Jan 11 no follow-up yet
R. J. Hernandez-Diaz

l'amor cortés (Courtly Love) - 9 views

Excellent artifact, Sarah. I haven't seen this movie for sometime. The scene is a great example of the romantic love for another man's wife. Although, of course, this causes some real problems with...

l'amour cortois (Courtly Love) First Knight chivalry

started by sraven on 13 Jan 11 1 follow-up, last by R. J. Hernandez-Diaz on 20 Jan 11
R. J. Hernandez-Diaz

Encyclopedia - Britannica Online Encyclopedia - 4 views

www.britannica.com/...ination-in-a-French-manuscript

Christine de Pisan Medieval women

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  • anonymous on 13 Jan 11
     
    Christine de Pisan was a medieval writer, one of the first women able to support herself solely from the income produced by her writings (Power, 24). She was a champion for women and challenged widespread denigration of women (Power, 4). Christine de Pisan's writings give us a glimpse into life for medieval women. She wrote that wives should be able to do manage all aspects of her husband's estate in his absence, including budgeting, managing labor, and dealing with issues of the law (Power, 35). In a partiarchal society she was vocal about the value of women and what they contributed. However, Christine de Pisan was not necessarily anti-marriage. She was married young and had many happy years before being widowed (Power, 23). Some scholars view Christine de Pisan as an early "feminist." This painting shows Christine de Pisan inside, instructing a woman, while the men are away from the home (presumably at war). The painting gives the impression that the women are not of the laboring class, as they are well-dressed and literate.
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