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The Catholic Historical Review
Lezioni di storia ecclesiastica. Il medioevo by Ernesti Buonaiuti2013 •
Journal of Religion in Europe
Words of Conversion: Poetry and Religious Identity in Early Modern Italy2013 •
The essay examines three cases of poets (Baptista Mantuanus, Giles of Viterbo, Jacopo Sannazaro) who wrote texts about conversion in early modern Italy. Its goal is to illustrate the evolution of conversion before the Reformation and to explore the role of poetic writing in the construction of religious identities. More precisely, the essay investigates how members of mendicant orders used a so-called ‘language of experiential knowledge’ to define their religious identity and defend the knowledge claims of their order against competing options. In doing so, the essay brings forth an original hypothesis concerning the target and motives of the condemnation of poetry at the Fifth Lateran Council, while further contributing to the current debate on religious pluralism and European identity.
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/724701
2015 •
This thesis aims to demonstrate that, through use of literary genre, vocabulary, and emphasis of detail, the authors of Christian skaldic verse in the twelfth to fifteenth centuries continually reshaped a specific set of representations for Christ to suit each poem’s individual purpose, its audience, and the literary tastes of the periods in which they were written. In order to show how Christ’s portrayal changes over time and according to each poem’s overarching purpose, I have selected the following five Christian skaldic poems and made each the focus of a chapter: Einarr Skulason’s Geisli, Gamli kanoki’s Harmsol, and the anonymously-composed poems Leiðarvisan, Liknarbraut, and Lilja. Within each chapter I provide an overview of the poem, selecting stanzas that highlight features of Christ that are prevalent or striking in some way, and analyse how these representations not only influence the poem itself, but also shape perceptions of Christ’s relationship with humanity. Each chap...
Religious and Sacred Poetry
Prayer in Contemporary Slovak Poetry : Current Genre Tendencies (Study)2014 •
The research paper “Prayer in Contemporary Slovak Poetry. (Current Genre Tendencies.)” examines the innovative practices of poetic prayer in Slovak literature. The study links literary, historical, and theological knowledge. In the background is the author's belief that the change of patterning of the literary prayer genre reflects important sociological shifts within the whole of society. This premise is tested on poetic texts from the turn of the 20th century, which reflect the transition from totalitarian ideology to liberal democracy. This period is marked by an increased occurrence of prayer in poetry which can be seen as a gesture of freedom of spiritual expression. At the same time there is a noticeable tendency to question the testimonial value of prayer poetry in the course of an expressing of rebellion against social and religious authority. Prayer poetry conveys the needs of individualized noninstitutionalised faith, mixing aspects of different religions, and the plea for closeness rather than transcending values “from the other world”. The core of the research paper is the analysis of four contemporary prayer poems published between 1992 and 2012. Through the choice of particular poems, the author aims to reach several goals: she wants to introduce key authors representing several lines of Slovak poetry (spiritual poetry, poets of privacy, non-conformist individualist, and experimental line - the so-called Text Generation) while presenting new semantic and structural practices that reflect significant trends in individualized Slovak poetry after November 1989. The texts present a creative, though not a value tension in respect to the genre of religious prayers. Colloquial expression, pragmatic tone, ironic understatement, toned-down testimony, philosophical analysis and latency are some of the preferred departure points. Pathos, emulating ideological frameworks or the position of an enlightened sage are features which typically receive criticism. At the level of expression authors deliberately work with concealment and latency. These features have an effect on the participants of prayer communication. Identification of the addressee of the text, which ultimately determines its genre, requires a contextual reading of the text and an awareness of its multi-dimensional nature. On the other hand, questioning the lyrical subject demonstrates the need for the understanding of the self, moving from ordinary, banal towards the high (sacred). Some poets (especially the Text Generation) use the prayer quotes to create assemblages. Fervent emotional involvement and carefree faith expressed through religious prayer enters into a dialogue with disparate visualization and complements the emotional restraint of contemporary man. Current genre trends of poetic prayer correspond with developmental trends of 133 Slovak poetry in general. The focus is on creating a semantically open poem, supporting its open, procedural character, in a way creating meaning on the intersection of deliberate polyphony and polysemy.
When 19th-century American Presbyterian pastor James Waddel Alexander wrote the lyrics of the hymn “O Sacred Head Now Wounded,” he created what has become the most popular of numerous English translations of 17th-century German Lutheran pastor Paul Gerhardt’s hymn “O Haupt voll Blut und Wunden.” That text was, in turn, a translation of part of an anonymous 13th-century cycle of passion poems, one dedicated to each of Christ’s wounds. From the medieval original through Gerhardt to Alexander, each subsequent translation has diminished its depictions of blood and rendered its narrator’s interaction with the crucified body of Christ less passionate, dictated by the theological needs and aesthetic sensibilities of the translator’s religious tradition. At the same time, both Gerhardt and Alexander included significant elements from the original that were anomalous in their own contexts. The inclusion of a medieval poem in the worship of 17th-century Lutherans and 19th-century Presbyterians may reveal an ecumenical bent on their part, albeit with clear limits. A comparison of the various versions of the hymn demonstrates the complex interrelationship between an original text and translations of it, some of which may properly be called versions of it and some of which may have become something altogether different.
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Academia Biology
Molecular-assisted analysis of indigenous chicken semen to increase rooster fertility in tropics2023 •
Frontiers in Psychology
Chemotherapy, clocks, and the awareness of death: A quantitative phenomenological study2023 •
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Modeling a Graph Viewer’s Effort in Recognizing Messages Conveyed by Grouped Bar Charts2013 •
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