Rome, the Pilgrim's Dream
Author : Gloria Fossi
Publisher : Giunti Editore
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 19,60 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Religion
ISBN :
Author : Gloria Fossi
Publisher : Giunti Editore
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 19,60 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Religion
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Author : George Weigel
Publisher : Constellation
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 16,37 MB
Release : 2013-10-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0465027695
The annual Lenten pilgrimage to dozens of Rome’s most striking churches is a sacred tradition dating back almost two millennia, to the earliest days of Christianity. Along this historic spiritual pathway, today’s pilgrims confront the mysteries of the Christian faith through a program of biblical and early Christian readings amplified by some of the greatest art and architecture of western civilization. In Roman Pilgrimage, bestselling theologian and papal biographer George Weigel, art historian Elizabeth Lev, and photographer Stephen Weigel lead readers through this unique religious and aesthetic journey with magnificent photographs and revealing commentaries on the pilgrimage’s liturgies, art, and architecture. Through reflections on each day’s readings about faith and doubt, heroism and weakness, self-examination and conversion, sin and grace, Rome’s familiar sites take on a new resonance. And along that same historical path, typically unexplored treasures—artifacts of ancient history and hidden artistic wonders—appear in their original luster, revealing new dimensions of one of the world’s most intriguing and multi-layered cities. A compelling guide to the Eternal City, the Lenten Season, and the itinerary of conversion that is Christian life throughout the year, Roman Pilgrimage reminds readers that the imitation of Christ through faith, hope, and love is the template of all true discipleship, as the exquisite beauty of the Roman station churches invites reflection on the deepest truths of Christianity.
Author : Jas' Elsner
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 533 pages
File Size : 31,21 MB
Release : 2007-12-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0191566756
This book presents a range of case-studies of pilgrimage in Graeco-Roman antiquity, drawing on a wide variety of evidence. It rejects the usual reluctance to accept the category of pilgrimage in pagan polytheism and affirms the significance of sacred mobility not only as an important factor in understanding ancient religion and its topographies but also as vitally ancestral to later Christian practice.
Author : Gwenyth E. Hood
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 39,46 MB
Release : 2021-07-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1501513729
Archetypal images, Carl Jung believed, when elaborated in tales and ceremonies, shape culture’s imagination and behavior. Unfortunately, such cultural images can become stale and lose their power over the mind. But an artist or mystic can refresh and revive a culture’s imagination by exploring his personal dream-images and connecting them to the past. Dante Alighieri presents his Divine Comedy as a dream-vision, carefully establishing the date at which it came to him (Good Friday, 1300), and maintaining the perspective of that time and place, throughout the work, upon unfolding history. Modern readers will therefore welcome a Jungian psychoanalytical approach, which can trace both instinctual and spiritual impulses in the human psyche. Some of Dante’s innovations (admission of virtuous pagans to Limbo) and individualized scenes (meeting personal friends in the afterlife) more likely spring from unconscious inspiration than conscious didactic intent. For modern readers, a focus on Dante’s personal dream-journey may offer the best way into his poem.
Author : James Anthony Froude
Publisher :
Page : 788 pages
File Size : 42,78 MB
Release : 1833
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Author : Robin Osborne
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 34,37 MB
Release : 2004-07-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521837699
A collection of innovative essays on major topics in ancient Greece and Rome, first published in 2004.
Author : Nicola Denzey Lewis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 43,79 MB
Release : 2020-09-03
Category : History
ISBN : 1108471897
A new look at the Cult of the Saints in late antiquity: did it really dominate Christianity in late antique Rome?
Author : Jonathan Morton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 40,63 MB
Release : 2020-07-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1108698778
The thirteenth-century allegorical dream vision, the Roman de la Rose, transformed how medieval literary texts engaged with philosophical ideas. Written in Old French, its influence dominated French, English and Italian literature for the next two centuries, serving in particular as a model for Chaucer and Dante. Jean de Meun's section of this extensive, complex and dazzling work is notable for its sophisticated responses to a whole host of contemporary philosophical debates. This collection brings together literary scholars and historians of philosophy to produce the most thorough, interdisciplinary study to date of how the Rose uses poetry to articulate philosophical problems and positions. This wide-ranging collection demonstrates the importance of the poem for medieval intellectual history and offers new insights into the philosophical potential both of the Rose specifically and of medieval poetry as a whole.
Author : Linda Kay Davidson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 802 pages
File Size : 42,53 MB
Release : 2002-11-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1576075435
Nationalistic meccas, shrines to popular culture, and sacred traditions for the world's religions from Animism to Zoroastrianism are all examined in two accessible and comprehensive volumes. Pilgrimage is a comprehensive compendium of the basic facts on Pilgrimage from ancient times to the 21st century. Illustrated with maps and photographs that enrich the reader's journey, this authoritative volume explores sites, people, activities, rites, terminology, and other matters related to pilgrimage such as economics, tourism, and disease. Encompassing all major and minor world religions, from ancient cults to modern faiths, this work covers both religious and secular pilgrimage sites. Compiled by experts who have authored numerous books on pilgrimage and are pilgrims in their own right, the entries will appeal to students, scholars, and general readers.
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Publisher :
Page : 666 pages
File Size : 45,4 MB
Release : 1912
Category : Celtic Church
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