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...
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.
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.
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!!
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...
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...
Italian Renaissance - 6 views
The Italian Renaissance marks the period of transition between the 13th and 16th centuries in Europe. During this time humanism, a way of thought in which human values and interests prevail, was t...
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...
Buttress - 4 views
Great artifacts, Alwen! I was not aware of this pbs video. It looks fantastic. Also, I enjoyed the "how to" video.
Notre Dame of Paris - Organ - 5 views
The Great Organ of Notre Dame of Paris There has been an organ in Notre Dame since the cathedral was built. Music was an important part of worship for the faithful of Paris. Leonin, the first com...
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...
Michelangelo's David - 4 views
Michelangelo's David stands a near 17 foot tall in the Galleria dell'Accademia in Florence Italy. It represents a bridge between traditional Roman artwork, and the Historical significant biblical ...
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 ...
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...
Encyclopedia - Britannica Online Encyclopedia - 4 views
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anonymous on 13 Jan 11Christine 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.
Julian of Norwich - 4 views
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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
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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.
Black Death: Dance of the Dead - 3 views
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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.
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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.
Ptolemy Atlas - 3 views
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The Ptolemy atlas is the eighth and final volume of series called Geography, written by Claudius Ptolemaeus during the second century CE (About). Ptolemy invented a grid system to draw a map of the known world. Using measurements obtained by merchant travelers, he was able to draw a map that concluded the world was round (About). This work was "lost" to medieval Europe for over 1000 years. When Ptolemy's work resurfaced in the 1300s, the work of artists and architects was transformed. Ptolemy's principles of perspective explained how objects look smaller when they are farther away. Using Ptolemy's techniques, Brunelleschi was able to build the famous dome on top of the Cathedral of Florence (Lecture). This website gives an interesting history of art and the principle of perspective (with examples). Ptolemy not only showed the world was round, but also created a way for spherical designs to be charted and built. http://www.dartmouth.edu/~matc/math5.geometry/unit11/unit11.html Picture of Ptolemy Atlas: http://eospso.gsfc.nasa.gov/eos_homepage/for_scientists/data_products/OurChangingPlanet/PDF/Page_146_new.pdf Reference (also an interesting read!): http://geography.about.com/od/historyofgeography/a/ptolemy.htm
Brunelleschi's Dome - 3 views
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Brunelleschi's Dome is located on the Cathedral of Florence. It was designed by Filippo Brunelleschi and inspired by the geometry of the Atlas. This is historically significant because it highlights the architectural developments of the Italian Renaissance. This dome is considered to be an amazing engineering feat and exemplifies the technological and scholarly advances of the thirteenth century. I have attached a link to images of Brunelleschi's Dome that shows pictures of both the interior and exterior of the Cathedral of Florence. This link also includes other images of Florence and seems to provide a glimpse into what the area is like.
ID: Theosis - 3 views
Theosis- Definition: a concept from Greek Orthodoxy that describes salvation as human participation with and even in the divine nature-it is an actual union and partaking in God and God's nature. ...