Saint Louis' Involvement with the Friars

1964 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 125-148 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lester K. Little
Keyword(s):  
Saint Louis ◽  
State Of Affairs ◽  
Mendicant Orders ◽  
As If ◽  
Louis Ix

The literature popular among students at Paris in the 1260's included a series of poems lamenting the ascendant role in society of the new mendicant orders. The Dominicans are so shrewd, said one of these poems, that they control both Paris and Rome, they are both king and apostle. The blame for this state of affairs was being placed squarely on Louis IX. The king favors the mendicants, read a second poem, yet ill-treatrs his knights, as if the friars could do anything useful for the defense of his kingdom.

An Episcopal Petition from the Province of Rouen, 1281

1965 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 294-305
Author(s):  
Richard Kay
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
The Third ◽  
Provincial Councils ◽  
Mendicant Orders ◽  
Louis Ix

The two Rouen provincial councils that were held in May 1281 and October 1282 are known only from three petitions addressed to Pope Martin IV that survive in a single manuscript. One was printed by Champollion-Figeac in 1839, another by Professor Gaines Post in 1936, but the third remains unpublished because its historical interest has not been apparent. The first two can be readily related to famous events of their day: one urged the canonization of Louis IX, while the other protested the renewal of papal privileges to the mendicant orders. The third, however, has been neglected because its contents do not seem to rise above the commonplace and trivial.

Innocents Abroad? Elizabeth Bishop and James Merrill Overseas

2019 ◽  
pp. 294-306
Author(s):  
Ben Leubner
Keyword(s):  
Strong Sense ◽  
Elizabeth Bishop ◽  
Two Dimensional ◽  
James Merrill ◽  
State Of Affairs ◽  
As If

This chapter investigates the ways in which both Elizabeth Bishop and James Merrill acknowledged their complicity in cultural erosions that they wished to see forestalled in Brazil and Greece, respectively. As Robert von Hallberg has noted, what often renders the genre of the ‘protest poem’ so two-dimensional is the lack of any sense of complicity in what is being protested, as if the poet was unwilling or unable to see his/her own role in the events and processes that the poem decries. Neither Bishop nor Merrill suffered from this kind of shortcoming of vision. At the heart of many of their poems which lament a given state of affairs is a strong sense that they are in part responsible for that state of affairs, and this makes these poems not weaker, as a result of an embedded hypocrisy, but stronger, as a result of an unwillingness to succumb to the delusion that oneself could possibly be free of blame.

Planning and Economic Progress in France

1957 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 351-382
Author(s):  
Wallace C. Peterson
Keyword(s):  
Ottoman Empire ◽  
Normal State ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Economic Progress ◽  
State Of Affairs ◽  
As If

FRANCE, it is said these days, is the “sick man of Europe,” a dubious honor once bestowed on the crumbling Ottoman Empire. To the outside observer it seems as if crisis following crisis is the “normal” state of affairs in France. Within France, the illusion that the post-Liberation social order would somehow be fundamentally different from that of the prewar regime is no more; politically, economically, and socially France today seems distressingly similar to the France of yesterday.Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.

The Protest of Saint Louis

Traditio ◽  
1959 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
pp. 405-418 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerard J. Campbell
Keyword(s):  
Thirteenth Century ◽  
Saint Louis ◽  
The Church ◽  
Louis Ix

The figure of Louis IX of France is frequently surrounded by an aura of the unreal. Since he has been honored by the Church and succeeding generations as St. Louis, the tendency has often been to place him on a pedestal and to make of him a plaster statue rather than the vigorous king who ruled France for 44 eventful years in the midst of the thirteenth century. Above all, it is often imagined that a saint-king would surely be something of a pawn in the hands of the clerics, and especially the papacy.

Love As If

2011 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 4-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Shand ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Romantic Love ◽  
Primary Focus ◽  
State Of Affairs ◽  
As If

The primary focus here is romantic love, but it may be applied to other cases of love such as those within a family. The first issue is whether love is a non-rational occurrence leading to a state of affairs to which the normative constrains of reason do not apply. If one assumes that reasons are relevant to determining love, then the second issue is the manner in which love is and should be reasonable and governed by the indications of reason. It is contended that our conception of love is inherently contradictory. Depending on circumstances, we want love to be both a non-rational occurrence beyond reason and something normative such that the indications of reasons are relevant to determining and assessing it. We alternate between the two treatments of love and in so doing love can function in our lives. The incoherence is accommodated by each treatment or view of love being one of as if. This allows us to live with love in a manner whereby we do not have to definitively commit to either alternative, so we have a dipolar as if concept of love. Sometimes we view love as if reasons were beside the point and at others we view love as if it were rightly subject to the indications of reason.

What is Stuttering?

1990 ◽  
Vol 55 (3) ◽  
pp. 370-382 ◽  
Author(s):  
William H. Perkins
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Practice ◽  
Speech Production ◽  
Avoidance Behavior ◽  
Diagnostic Method ◽  
Half Century ◽  
Definitive Evidence ◽  
State Of Affairs ◽  
As If

The most definitive evidence about any aspect of stuttering is that listeners are unable to judge unit-by-unit occurrences of it acceptably. This result has been replicated repeatedly in every decade for a half century. Nonetheless, for virtually all research and most clinical practice, stuttering has been defined perceptually as if listeners could identify it accurately. Reasons for this state of affairs and its implications for therapy, theory, and research are analyzed. An alternative speech production definition with its implications is proposed. Further, a diagnostic method of validating authentic stuttering is described, as is an objective for fluency-skill therapy that reduces rather than reinforces avoidance behavior.

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