A Note on the "Description of the Holy Land and of the Way Thither" by Ludolph Von Suchem (1350)

1935 ◽  
Vol 55 (1) ◽  
pp. 102
Author(s):  
H. Kurdian
Keyword(s):  
Holy Land ◽  
The Way

Biblical Hebrews and the Rhetoric of Republicanism: Seventeenth—Century Portuguese Jews on the Jewish Community

AJS Review ◽  
1997 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 199-221 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miriam Bodian
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Iberian Peninsula ◽  
Jewish Community ◽  
Holy Land ◽  
Stark Contrast ◽  
The Way

In their rhetoric, the ex-conversos who settled in “lands of freedom” outside the Iberian Peninsula tended to emphasize the anguish and lack of freedom they had endured while in the orbit of the Inquisition–in stark contrast to the free and thriving Jewish collective life they had now built outside it. If the Peninsula had been a swamp of “Egyptian idolatry,” the Jewish ex-converso communities in Amsterdam, Venice, Livorno, and London (to name only the most vibrant) were, by implication, encampments on the way to the Holy Land. Yet one aspect of their new condition subtly undermined the ex-conversos' confidence as Jews vis-a-vis the gentile world. Ever sensitive to their image, they were exquisitely aware of their now unambiguous identification in Christian eyes, not with conviction rewarded, not with faith triumphant, but with a defeated and exiled people.

scholarly journals Vivekananda’s View on Uplift of the Subalturn

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Swapan Kumar Sarkar
Keyword(s):  
Holy Land ◽  
Culture History ◽  
History Of ◽  
Partha Chatterjee ◽  
The Way ◽  
Swami Vivekananda

<div><p><em>Many great hermits throughout the ages have come of on the holy land of India. Swami Vivekananda is one of those who are especially notable in the field of eco-social, religious and history. He was born in a generous aristocratic “Kayastha” family in North Kolkata. From childhood Vivekananda was very gentle. He easily realizes the circumstances of dependent India. He gets the impression of India and its dignity in the history of mankind; the causes for that position and also whether it is necessary to change – where to start and what is the way. The main streams to culture history in India are – analyzing the relevant objects in traditional way, imperialist attitude, nationalist policy and recently the culture of lower classes history that begins in 1970s. The historians named Ranjit Guha, Partha Chatterjee, Gautam Bhadra, Gayatri Chatterjee, Dipesh Chaterjee et al are notable to initiate this kind of method. It is notable that the method is not very ancient. But Swami Vivekananda was enough to be the greatest in …….lower classes’ history in his own time. And it is no doubt that the method is popular and significant. It is my little effort to focus on Vivekananda’s thought for the development of backward classes. My effort is based on Vivekananda’s “speech”, writings, books, and letters and so on.</em></p></div>

scholarly journals History with Geography (Gogol on the Way to the Holy Land)

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 170-191
Author(s):  
Victor M. Guminsky
Keyword(s):  
Mediterranean Sea ◽  
Holy Land ◽  
Factual Information ◽  
Average Speed ◽  
The Mediterranean ◽  
In The Beginning ◽  
The Way

The article makes an attempt to specify the actual routes of Gogol’s sea voyage in the Mediterranean Sea on his way to the Holy Land in the beginning of 1848 and to analyze the available data about his possible routes (in comparison to other Russian pilgrims). The author attempts to verify the authenticity of some data shared by Gogol whose reputation of an inventor and hoaxer among his contemporaries was not accidental. The article questions the tentative Gogol’s pilgrimage to the Corfu Island (Kerkira) to pray before the relics of St. Spyridon of Trimython and an extraordinary event that happened there: a miracle that provided an evident proof against one Englishman’s skepticism who had suggested that the relics’ incorruptibility was fabricated. Gogol’s story about the “Englishman’s disgrace” was retold by two of his contemporaries, and these reports are acknowledged by some modern researchers as truthful. However, the author of this essay believes there are some reasons to mistrust these sources as accurate. The data used for this purpose was taken from the published materials and archive sources but also bears on factual information, such as distances between different geographical points and the average speed of steamships in the middle of the 19 th century.

scholarly journals Kharetat al mousafer, an 18th-century proskynetarion of Jerusalem and The Holy Land from Saydnaia

Chronos ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 40 ◽  
pp. 95-118
Author(s):  
Rand Abou Ackl
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
18Th Century ◽  
Holy Land ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Way

In this article, I discuss a proskynetarion icon of the Holy Land and Jerusalem, called the Kharetat al mousafer, located in Saydnaia Monastery in Syria. The relationship between pilgrimages and proskynetaria, which served as a tool of Christian propaganda, will be discussed with a focus on the Saydnaia proskynetarion as a case study, showing the way of the Melkite painter, Issa al-Qudsi depicted the Holy Land topography. In this icon, the Holy Sepulchre (Church of Resurrection) was also represented, opening a discussion around proskynetaria in Syria during the eighteenth century.

scholarly journals The Authority of Written and Oral Sources of Knowledge in Ludolf of Sudheim’s De itinere Terre Sancte

2021 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-48
Author(s):  
Christine Gadrat-Ouerfelli
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Full Range ◽  
Holy Land ◽  
Complex Processes ◽  
Sources Of Knowledge ◽  
Written Sources ◽  
The Way

After the German priest Ludolf of Sudheim returned from the Holy Land in 1341, he wrote an account of his travels that is far more complex than scholars have assumed. Ludolf expanded the genre of pilgrimage narrative in the way he draws on written sources, such as Hethum’s Flos historiarum Terre Orientis and William of Boldensele’s Liber de quibusdam ultramarinis partibus, while blending into his narrative oral sources of knowledge picked up from his personal contacts while traveling. Pilgrimage literature has often been denigrated by scholars for being repetitive, impersonal, and lacking originality. Yet if scholars were to adopt a less historiographically presentist approach to pilgrimage writing that is more open to the values and strategies of narratives like De itinere Terre Sancte, research could meaningfully focus on what might be called the “mental library” of pilgrim-authors — the full range of written and oral resources at their disposal in the complex processes of knowledge production in pilgrimage narrative.

scholarly journals Prikaz Korčule na ikoni iz Bizantskog muzeja u Ateni

Ars Adriatica ◽  
2015 ◽  
pp. 81
Author(s):  
Zoraida Demori Staniči
Keyword(s):  
16Th Century ◽  
Holy Land ◽  
Pointed Arch ◽  
Rough Sea ◽  
The Way

The icon of Miracle by the Virgin attributed to the circle of Theodore Poulakis from Byzantine Museum in Athens is known and published. It is divided in two horizontal registers: the upper depicts Virgin Hodegetria with venerating angels under adorned pointed arch, while in the lower one there is a shipwreck in front of the fortified town. Virgin is accompanied by the eloquent epithet „The Hope of Sinners”. The wreck below this celestial scene is realistically presented with passengers of the ship perishing in the rough sea. Two of them clinging to wooden boards swim to nearby land with fortified city which Greek inscription „Kurzula”. This town is, actually, Korčula on the epinomous island in the Croatian part of the Adriatic which was Venetian territory and important port, and not Kurzulari islands at the western entrance to the Corinthian gulf, as had been suggested. Icon has Greek votive dedication to the „Virgin of the Venetians”, made by obviously saved Ioannis Ardavanis, which is a Greek name from Kefallinia, who was either passenger or owner of the ship. The image of the Virgin may be identified as venerated icon from Hvar Franciscan monastery, parallel to island of Korčula, a well known medieval sanctuary, situated on the way to Holy Land. Hvar icon with the epithet „Hope of the Sinner” was painted in the second half of 16th century and has the same iconography and a similar epithet as the Virgin in the Byzantine Museum.

Sławna pielgrzymka do Jerozolimy ciągnąca się przez trzy znakomitsze części świata

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tomasz Stanisław Wolski
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Mediterranean Sea ◽  
18Th Century ◽  
Aegean Sea ◽  
Holy Land ◽  
Religious Issues ◽  
The Mediterranean ◽  
Latin Description ◽  
The Way

The Polish translation of the Latin description of the journey by Tomasz Stanisław Wolski (born 1700, died probably after 1766) was based on the printed version of his account ("Illustris Peregrinatio Ierosolimitana latius protracta per tres insigniores mundi partes...,"), which first appeared in print in 1737 in Lwów, and then it was published three more times: in 1748, 1764, and 1766. Wolski came from the Sieradz Voivodeship nobility, and it is known that he was born in Uniejów. The source presents a brief outline of the author's life until 1725, and more extensive descriptions of his travels abroad from 1724 to 1731. First, in 1724-1725, he travelled to Italy, then he made a pilgrimage to the Holy Land and Egypt in 1725-1726. In 1728, he travelled to France and England. Finally, in 1729-1731, he gave an account of his journey through several cities in Italy, the Aegean Sea and Istanbul, from where he returned to Poland. He also recorded his next journey to Vienna and Rome, and then back to Vienna. Wolski's narrative is an example of travel prose of the 18th century, a typical Old Polish account of a journey. It contains many interesting descriptions of events, including sensational threads and observations made about people encountered along the way. The author presented a lot of information about sailing in the Mediterranean Sea and the hardships encountered by travellers in the Holy Land. His book also provides a lot of information on religious issues in the places visited around Europe and the Middle East.

The Battles of God and King Richard

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Staunton
Keyword(s):  
Twelfth Century ◽  
Holy Land ◽  
The Ideal ◽  
The Way

This chapter looks at the representation of King Richard in war, particularly in the Holy Land and on the way there. English historians’ accounts of King Richard’s wars have usually been examined for the information they provide of military engagements, or for how they illustrate his image as the ideal knight-king. Here the emphasis is instead on the role of the divine. References to God’s role in battle are so obvious in medieval histories that they may easily be ignored, but, as shown here, there is much complexity in the presentation of such a role by these twelfth-century historians of Angevin England.

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