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cervantes: spanish fathers and sons
In what sense was Spain, in the years of Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote a schizophrenic society? If we look closely, there is an answer… In Cervantes lifetime, Spain had two very different moods. They were the moods of two … Continue reading
saint joan : from god’s mouth to the dauphin’s ear?
Born about 1412 to a devout peasant family, Joan was visited from childhood by her “voices.” Believing herself sent by God to drive the English from France, she set out in 1428 to gain the ear of the Dauphin. The … Continue reading
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Tagged Babylonian Captivity (1378-1417), Colette Boillet, Colette of Corbie, Duke of Alencon, Duke of Orleans, Ingrid Bergman Joan of Arc, Jean Froissart Chronicles, Joan of Arc, Joan of Arc The Maid, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Mark twain Joan of Arc, Perceval de Cagny, Philip the Good Duke of Burgundy, The Hundred Years War, Thijs Van Leer, Vincent Ferrer
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joan on the stand: the eternal trial
Poor Joan of Arc. Her trial and execution were only the beginning. In the centuries since, the Maid has continued to provoke anger and adoration, skepticism and awe, part of what can be termed the fluctuations in Joan’s fame. Born … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Carolyn Gage, Charles VII France, Duke of Orleans poet-Duke, Jean Froissart Chronicles, Joan of Arc, Jules Quicherat, Leslie Feinberg, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Mark Twain, Mark twain Joan of Arc, Perceval de Cagny, Susan Crane Rutgers, The Hundred Years War, The Vigils of Charles VII
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collecting is only humanist
The great books of Greece and Rome were written down between 800 B.C. and A.D. 450. They were first printed and disseminated only after A.D. 1450. Once printed, they were likely to survive only because they were so good or … Continue reading
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Tagged Bibliothea Corviniana, Flavius Josephus, Froissart Chronicles, Grand Seraglio Istanbul, Homer Iliad, Janos Vitez, Janus Pannonius, jean fouquet, Jean Froissart Chronicles, King Matthias Corvinus of Hungary, King Matthias of Hungary, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Niccolo Niccoli, Ottoman Empire European Wars, Petrarca Trionfi, poggio bracciolini
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dark shadows & high walls
A sanctuary for a dark age. When there was little law in the land, and robbers and brigands were at liberty in the wild, a man’s home was his castle… Taking in to account the enormous diffusion of castles in … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Baccio Baldini, Chanson de Roland, Daniel Specklin, Jean Froissart Chronicles, King Arthur magical Round Table, King Arthur's Knights, Limbourg Brothers, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Martin Luther encounter with Devil, Sir John Soane Museum, Song of Roland, Wartburg in Thuringia
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wild and wooly: oh effendi!
the Turks. The young turks,the old turks, they were all wild; from the quiet tranquility of the garden to the live action slicing and dicing of the human body, there was rarely a dull moment in the Ottoman Turkish empire. … Continue reading
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Tagged 10cc sheet music, eric stewart 10cc, Evliya Effendi, Grand Seraglio, Grand Seraglio Istanbul, hatice Muazzez Sultan, Ibrahim Ottoman Sultan, Jean Chartier illustration, Jean Froissart Chronicles, kevin godley, Kiusem Queen Mother Ottoman Sultan, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Murad IV Ottoman Sultan, Osman and Mustafa, Ottoman Empire, Siege of Constantinople, Sultan Osman, the 10cc fan club
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black plague & neurotic gloom: no belief no deny
Skepticism and timorous uncertainty marked the second half of the fourteenth century.The generation that survived the plague could not believe, but did not dare deny. It groped toward the future, with one nervous eye always peering over its shoulder toward … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous
Tagged Daniel Defoe, E.L. Skip Knox, Giovanni Boccaccio, Hans Holbein the younger, Jean Froissart, Jean Froissart Chronicles, John Wycliffe, Melissa Snell, Pieter Bruegel, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, The Sick House movie, Wat Tyler Uprising
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