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Tag Archives: Middle Ages
HELOISE AND ABELARD, LOVE’S REQUITAL, FEMINISM AND RELIGIOUS BIGOTRY IN THE MIDDLE AGE, SCHOLARLY CHAUVINISM, AND CONTEMPORARY VIEWS, ON HELOISE LOVE LETTERS.
I would not want to give you cause for finding me disobedient in anything, so I have set the bridle of your injunction on the words which issue from my unbounded grief; thus in writing at least I may … Continue reading
Posted in Courtly Love, Criticism, Feminism, Heart, Heloise And Abelard, History, Love, Marriage, Medieval Romance, Memories, Myth, Religion, Romance, Theology, Uncategorized
Tagged A Story of Love and Sublimation, Contemporary Views, Early Feminism, Heloise And Abelard, Historica Calamitatum, Love & Religion, Medieval Romance, Middle Ages, The Letters, The Problemata
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CYNICISM IN OLD AGE, THE NATURE OF MAN, AND WHAT EVER HAPPEN TO THE NEW AGE?
“Dependence begets subservience, and venality suffocates the germ of Virtue, and prepare fit tools for the designs of ambition.” Thomas Jefferson It is a well known phenomenon, that as we grew old we have a tendency to turn in to cynics, … Continue reading
Posted in Cynicism, Human Nature, New Age
Tagged Ancient Rome, Chris Hedges, Corporate Capitalism, Cynicism, Dark Ages, Darwinism, Democracy, Enlightenment, First Christians, Gnostics, Hippies, Human Nature, Indifference, Inverted Totalitarianism, Jorge Manrique, Leon Gieco, Martyrdom, Mercedes Sosa, Middle Ages, New Age, Paganism, Progress, Reason, Renascence, Riots, Roman Circus, Roman Code, Science, Spiritual Law, That time past was always better, The Hero, Utopia, Woodstock
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