The Legacy of the Nibelungenlied
The Legacy of the Nibelungenlied By Gabriel Blanchard What legacy is there to utter destruction? As it turns out, if it has a poet on its side, quite […]
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The Nibelungenlied: A Book Profile
The NibelungenliedA Book Profile By Gabriel Blanchard Romance; treachery; vengeance; many unpronounceable names: here we have the ingredients of high epic. ❧ Full title: Der Nibelungenlied (“The Song
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Abelard: An Author Profile
AbelardAn Author Profile By Gabriel Blanchard The intellectual revival that took place in eleventh and twelfth century Paris lies at the heart of western thought. ❧ Full name:
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Hugh of St. Victor: An Author Profile
Hugh of St. VictorAn Author Profile By Gabriel Blanchard Little known today, the flowering of learning over which Hugh of St. Victor presided was one of the most
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Student Essay: Knights and Knaves at Avignon
Student Essay: Knights and Knaves at Avignon By Mikayla Pipes The fourteenth-century debate over the legitimate papal line seems as if it can only be a matter of
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St. Hildegard of Bingen: An Author Profile
St. Hildegard of BingenAn Author Profile By Gabriel Blanchard Today we discuss the life and times of a renaissance woman—albeit the rennaissance in question was not that of
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Wycliffe: An Author Profile
WycliffeAn Author Profile By Gabriel Blanchard In one sense Wycliffe was simply one more example of Medieval patterns of belief and devotion; but the patterns were breaking, and
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The “Pearl” Poet: An Author Profile
The Pearl PoetAn Author Profile By Gabriel Blanchard This elusive author, whose writing contains so much of the sacred, the lovely, and the dreadful, is a surprisingly good
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St. Gregory the Great: An Author Profile
St. Gregory the GreatAn Author Profile By Gabriel Blanchard It is almost never true that anyone singlehandedly saved a whole community; it might be true of Gregory the
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Magna Carta: A Book Profile
Magna CartaA Book Profile By Travis Copeland The supremacy of law over arbitrary government is not guaranteed by civilization, but cost immense effort to obtain. ❧ Full title:
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