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1000 years ago: deep in the archives
A thousand years ago our forebears lived in a “dark age.” They themselves did not think it was dark and they were only half wrong… …Our Western world was unquestionably Catholic, although the Church sanctified relics of pagan practice and … Continue reading
fiddler on a hot church roof
Martin Luther is still creating controversy. Recently, about 800 statuettes of the 16th-century Protestant reformer popped up in the eastern German town of Wittenberg, where Luther first preached against practices of the Roman Catholic church almost five hundred years ago. … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Johann Gottfried Schadow, Lucas Cranach the Elder, Martin Luther, mary fulbrook, Ottmar Hoerl, Pope Alexander VI, pope innocent VIII, pope Julius II, Pope Leo X, Raphael, thirty years war, William James
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DUSTUP IN ROME: THEY AGREE TO DISAGREE
“The theologian may indulge the pleasing task of describing Religion as she descended from Heaven, arrayed in her native purity. A more melancholy duty is imposed on the historian. He must discover the inevitable mixture of error and corruption which she … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc.
Tagged Alec Guiness, Ara Coeli Church Rome, Arch of Titus, Ceasar Borgia, Church of Aracoeli, Dante, Dante Alighieri, Edward Gibbon, Fall of the Roman Empire 1964, Fall of the Roman Empire Movie, Henry Adams, History of Rome, Julius Ceasar, Machiavelli, Machiavelli The Prince, Mussolini, Pope Alexander VI, Pope Leo X, Saint Augustine, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Temple Menorah
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