Visio Pacis, Holy City and Grail: An Attempt at an Inner History of the Grail Legend. Helen Adolf

1963 ◽  
Vol 60 (3) ◽  
pp. 213-214
Author(s):  
Blake Lee Spahr
Keyword(s):  
Grail Legend ◽  
History Of ◽  
Holy City

scholarly journals City of Stones

1998 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 127-136
Author(s):  
Hasan Langgulung
Keyword(s):  
Historical Study ◽  
Eastern Side ◽  
Old City ◽  
History Of ◽  
Process Oriented ◽  
Political Opinions ◽  
Oriented Approach ◽  
Holy City ◽  
The Way

This book is a political and historical study of the holy city of Jerusalem andits periods from the biblical era to the present. Beginning with a discussion ofthe contrasting versions of Jerusalem’s history presented by Palestinian Arabsand Israeli Jews, the author goes on to examine the way the radically opposedgoals and aspirations of both sides results in conflicts. The author concludes thatthe stalemate over Jerusalem’s future is a “condition” that can be dealt with onlyby a “process oriented” and not “solution oriented” approach. The participantsmust deal with the problems caused by the existing conditions. This book representsa dissenting Israeli view of the problem.Meron Benvenisti, a former deputy mayor of Jerusalem whose authorityincluded the administration of the eastern side of Jerusalem and the Old City, ishighly qualified to write an unfalsified history of the Holy City.In his book Ciry ofstone, the author tried his best to demonstrate multisidedhistorical, demographic, cultural, religious, and political opinions, together withthe citizen’s feelings, without victors or vanquished.As I read the eight chapters of this precious book, I found that some issuesneeded clarification. and some questions needed answers ...

scholarly journals The Holy City of Medina

2016 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 134-137
Author(s):  
Rose Aslan
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Sacred Space ◽  
History Of ◽  
Religious Formation ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
The City ◽  
Early Islamic ◽  
Holy City

In The Holy City of Medina: Sacred Space in Early Islamic Arabia, HarryMunt offers a much-needed look at the history of Madinah through scholars’writing about its significance and the construction of its sanctity. By examiningthe city’s history through a spatial lens, Munt presents a new perspective on134 The American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences 33:3the history of a city that has been written about for more than a millennium.While Madinah has served as a catalyst of religious formation, identity, andpractice, until now it has not been studied as a sanctified city (ḥaram) in andof itself.As the city that welcomed Makkah’s Muslim refugees, Madinah has arich and complicated history. In addition, it is a sacred city. While modernMuslims primarily view it as sacred because of the presence of the Prophet’sgrave, the author returns to early Islamic sources to understand how earlyMuslim scholars between the seventh to the ninth centuries viewed the cityand how it became sanctified. He argues against the modern normative Islamicviewpoint that the city was immediately viewed as sacred and posits that ittook several centuries for the normative viewpoint to consolidate into a popularnarrative ...

scholarly journals VIENO SPEKTAKLIO ISTORIJA („NUSIAUBTOS ŠALIES“ CHRONOLOGIJA IR TOPOGRAFIJA)

2007 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 93-111
Author(s):  
Marija Oniščik
Keyword(s):  
Point Of View ◽  
Theatre History ◽  
Historical View ◽  
Medieval Theatre ◽  
Real Presence ◽  
Liturgical Drama ◽  
Grail Legend ◽  
Literary Images ◽  
History Of ◽  
In The Beginning

Tai filosofinis pasakojimas apie Gintaro Varno spektaklį „Nusiaubta šalis“ ir jo istorinį-literatūrinį kontekstą. Pagrindinė spektaklio tema įvardijama kaip Dievo vieta istorijoje. Tekste vartojami „vertikalaus laiko“ ir „istorijos spirale“ įvaizdžiai, būdingi viduramžių menui. Šalia pastebėjimų apie viduramžių teatro specifiką ir jos atspindėjimą spektaklyje tekste vartojamos H. Bergsono, G. Bachelard’o, G. Deleuze’o, P. Ricoeuro įžvalgos į laiko problematiką bei J. Derrida religijos filosofijos intarpai. Spektakliui būdingas virtualus laikų ir vietų daugybiškumas, skirtingų laikų sutraukimas vienoje trukmėje primena Bergsono „filosofinio laiko“ koncepciją. Paradigmos metonimiškumas leidžia traktuoti šį spektaklį kaip sakramentinį teatrą, kuriame performatyvumas bei papildomumo principas sukuria Realaus Buvimo efektą.Pagrindiniai žodžiai: teatras, istorija, vaizdas, laikas, vieta, Realus Buvimas.THE HISTORY OF ONE SPECTACLE (CHRONOLOGY AND TOPOGRAPHY OF „THE DESTROYED LAND“)Marija Oniščik SummaryThe text tells a story of „The Destroyed Land“ – the spectacle by Gintaras Varnas, considered as a spiral journey through time and places, paradigmatically showing the historical view of how the spectacle was born and performed, what literary images from Arthurian cycle gave rise to its plot and setting, what the historical and mythological import lies in the beginning of Grail legend, and what the sacramental meaning follows from it. The philosophical purpose of the text is to investigate the problem of time as it is presented in the spectacle together with treatment of place. It is argued that in the spectacle, there is a medieval view of history as „vertical“ time, presented paradigmatically as a whole, which reminds us of the Bergsonian conception of time with its instantaneous multiplicity. It is also proximate to medieval notion of aeviternity in Thomas Aquinas, as the mean between time and eternity, in which the succession of time treated as the changeableness of place, is compatible with being simultaneously whole. The text also analyses those features of the spectacle, which make it very similar to the medieval theatre with its simplicity of staging originated from liturgical drama. It is stated that here one has a sacred theatre, which has not a referential but a performative function to create a real world akin to the sacramental Real Presence, represented by the image of Grail. From the philosophical point of view, the religious longing for Grail can be treated as Derridian messianicity.Keywords: theatre, history. image, time, place, Real Presence.

The blessings of work: the cistercian view

1973 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
pp. 59-76
Author(s):  
Christopher J. Holdsworth
Keyword(s):  
Significant Cluster ◽  
History Of ◽  
Ways Of Life ◽  
Holy City

Around 1180 Conrad of Eberbach writing about the history of his own order, the cistercian, noticed that it had been founded the year before Jerusalem was freed from the saracens and close to the beginning of the Carthusian and premonstratensian orders. This seemed to him a significant cluster of events, for as the holy city was restored to the Christians, so the orders of monks, hermits and canons were being brought back to their old and proper ways of life by the new orders. Whilst today we may find Conrad’s chronology a little puzzling (La Grande Chartreuse and Prémontré were founded in 1084 and 1120, Cîteaux in 1098, whilst Jerusalem was freed in 1099), we can recognise that the first cistercians were aware that they were attempting a new thing; they called their first home at Cîteaux the New Monastery, thus distinguishing it from Molesmes, the old monastery from which they had come, and from the monastic world at large.

“These Things Were Reported to Tiberius”

2021 ◽  
pp. 25-36
Author(s):  
David Lloyd Dusenbury
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Reception History ◽  
Old Russian ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Death Of Jesus ◽  
History Of ◽  
Holy City

In the late 1920s an Austrian historian of religion, Robert Eisler, introduced a riveting new theory about the trial and death of Jesus. On the strength of a dossier of Old Russian manuscripts, Eisler became convinced that Jesus went to Jerusalem shortly before his death with a cohort of “secretly armed” disciples. Once in the holy city, Eisler conjectured, Jesus and his cohort of fighters must have gained control of “the strongly fortified Temple”. It is this action which must have led to Jesus’ arrest and death. Eisler’s most momentous claim, however, is that Pilate’s notes on Jesus’ trial were rediscovered the nineteenth century and published in the early twentieth century. This chapter examines some of Eisler’s sources, and his place in the reception-history of Jesus’ Roman trial. Eisler is unique for his stress on the fascinating question of what Pilate wrote.

scholarly journals وقفات منهجية في حياة الشيخ السهارتفوري و آثاره

2014 ◽  
Vol 9 (10) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mesbahul Haq
Keyword(s):  
History Of ◽  
Holy City

Sheikh Khalil Ahmed bin Majid Ali Ansari Al-Sahrnpuri, a famous religious as well as a senior Hadith scholar (Mohaddith) in the Indian sub-continent. His lineage from his father side is assumed to be linked with the famous companion of the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) Abu Ayyub al-Ansari. From mother side, he is also assumed to be linked to Abu Bakr Siddiq, may Allah be pleased with him. Sheikh Al-Sahrnpuri was born in ''Nanuta'' under the district of ''Sahrnpur'' in India in 1269 A.H. corresponding with 1849 A.D. He graduated from University Pakistan in 1288 A.H. During his study life he learned from a lot of seniors sheikhs and scholars of India and Pakistan. He performed pilgrimage (Hajj) seven times, and during his trips to Makkah he met many scholars of Makkah and Madinah, and attend a lot of lecturers there and heard from them Hadith and finally obtained degree certificate which is popularly known as ''izazah'' on most books of Hadith. Sheikh Al Sahrnpuri devoted all his lift to serve Islam and teaching Islamic sciences, especially Hadith and its sciences. He has a long history of teaching sunnah, reviewing it as well as editing and explaining it. One of his famous writings is ''Bazlul mazhud fi halle Sunan Abi Dawood'' which is considered as one of the best explanations for the book ''Sunan'' of Imam Abi Dawood. Sheikh Al Sahrnpuri died at the age of seventy-seven 77 years, in 1926 A.D and he was buried in Baqi cemetery in the holy city Madina.

scholarly journals Understanding Jerusalem and its Cross-Cultural Dilemmas in Guy Delisle’s Jerusalem: Chronicles From the Holy City

2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 133-144
Author(s):  
Ana-Maria Gavrilă
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Transmission ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Christian Communities ◽  
History Of ◽  
Physical Barriers ◽  
Mind Set ◽  
Narrative Techniques ◽  
National Stereotypes ◽  
Holy City

Abstract Guy Delisle’s Jerusalem: Chronicles from the Holy City (2011) is a nonfictional graphic novel which narrates the experiences during a year that the Canadian artist and his family spent living far from home, in the occasionally dangerous and perilous city of the ancient Middle East. Part humorous memoir filled with “the logistics of everyday life,” part an inquisitive and sharp-eyed travelogue, Jerusalem is interspersed with enthralling lessons on the history of the region, together with vignettes of brief strips of Delisle’s encounters with expatriates and locals, with Jewish, Muslim, and Christian communities in and around the city, with Bedouins, Israeli and Palestinians. Since the comic strip is considered amongst the privileged genres able to disseminate stereotypes, Jerusalem tackles cultural as well as physical barriers, delimiting between domestic and foreign space, while revealing the historical context of the Israeli-Palestinian present conflict. Using this idea as a point of departure, I employ an imagological method of interpretation to address cross-cultural confusions in analysing the cartoonist’s travelogue as discourse of representation and ways of understanding cultural transmission, paying attention to the genre’s convention, where Delisle’s drawing style fits nicely the narrative techniques employed. Through an imagological perspective, I will also pay attention to the interaction between cultures and the dynamics between the images which characterise the Other (the nationalities represented or the spected) and those which characterise - not without a sense of irony - his own identity (self-portraits or auto-images). I shall take into account throughout my analysis that the source of this graphic memoir is inevitably a subjective one: even though Delisle professes an unbiased mind-set from the very beginning, the comic is at times coloured by his secular views. Delisle’s book is a dark, yet gentle comedy, and his wife’s job at the Doctors Without Borders paired with his personal experiences are paradoxically a gentle reminder that “There’ll always be borders.” In sum, the comic medium brings a sense of novelty to the imagological and hermeneutic conception of the interpretation of cultural and national stereotypes and/or otherness in artistic and literary works.

The Irish Framework of Gawain and The Green Knight

PMLA ◽  
1932 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 315-338 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alice Buchanan
Keyword(s):  
Arthurian Romance ◽  
Arthurian Romances ◽  
Grail Legend ◽  
History Of

Amid the controversial winds that blow about the region of Arthurian studies it is agreeable to have a few solid rocks of irrefutable argument. Professor Kittredge in his Study of Gawain and the Green Knight has demonstrated beyond all question two highly important points: first, that the theme of the Beheading Test, which occurs in Arthurian romances, French, English, and German, from about 1180 to about 1380, is derived from an Irish tradition actually existent in a MS. written before 1106; secondly, that the latest of these romances in date of composition is closer in many ways to the original Celtic form than is the earliest. It is well for students to ponder these facts when the authority of Foerster and Bruce is invoked to deny the presence of a strong Celtic element in Arthurian romance, and when some scholars seem to accept as an axiom the principle that if the same motif occurs in two romances, the later borrowed it from the earlier. Indeed, a whole history of the Grail legend has been constructed on this simple but often delusive formula.

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