Hidegard von Bingen was born on September 16, 1098 -although it is uncertain- and later died a day after her birthday, September 17, 1179. Hildegard is from a German ethnicity/family, in which she is the tenth child. During her childhood, Hildegard had claimed that at a young age she has seen visions. She started getting these visions at age 3 and only realized what they were at age 5. Due to her visions, her parents has decided to give her to a monastery. Maybe because they wanted to improve their political position, but Hildegard was offered at age 8 and was an apprentice to Jutta, a fellow nun. Hildegard never got married due to her being a nun, if she did marry while in this position, she would've been heavily reprimanded. She is considered
There are little to no direct accounts of how individuals’ lives were a couple thousand years ago in Ancient China. With a wealth of information on the rise, decline, and fall of empires, Michael Loewe, a sinologist who specializes in oriental studies and theology, writes an imaginary story about a hero named Bing set around 70 BCE. Bing: From Farmer’s Son to Magistrate in Han China is Loewe’s fictional portrait of life during the Han Empire. It is by no means a comprehensive historical account of Han times, in fact, it was written with those readers who are not familiar with Chinese in mind, however through the life of Bing we can gage how the lives of laborers, those involved in military service, merchants, and government officials might
While Eleanor was married to King Louis VII, Louis and Eleanor joined the second crusade and met up with Eleanor’s handsome uncle Raymond (Au, p.1). Louis began to notice Eleanor growing closer to Raymond (Au, p.1), so he forced her to go along with him to capture the Holy Land in Jerusalem, fearing an eventual love affair (Au, p.1). After the failed trip to Jerusalem, the pair went back to France, where Eleanor fell out of love with her husband. Even though the pope forbade them from dissolving the marriage (Goodman, 2013, p.3), she still found a way to divorce Louis, announcing that her marriage couldn’t be legal in God’s eyes since they were cousins (Au, p.1). Their marriage was annulled, and all of Eleanor’s property was then returned to her following medieval custom (Au, p.1). Hildegard of Bingen was the complete opposite in terms of how she went about achieving her goals, holding a religious authority’s opinion in the highest respect. Since Hildegard was especially concerned about sharing her visions because she lived in a period when the Church was torn apart by heresy, she didn’t want to do anything to label herself as a heretic (Hildegard of Bingen, 2015, p.1). With the permission of the abbot of St. Disibod, Hildegard began to write her vision down (Ferrante, 2014, p.1). Before she published it, it was approved by a papal commission named by Pope Eugene III, at the instigation of her archbishop, Henry of Mainz (Ferrante, 2014, p.1), and with support of Bernard of Clairvaux, who she had written to for advice (Delahoyde, Hildegard of Bingen, p.1). Eleanor always had her eye on the future, and didn’t allow her bad marriage with Louis to hold her back from further political influence. Just 2 months after she
Rogier van der Weyden painted his vision of the biblical Deposition before the year 1443, likely between 1435 and 1438. The painting is oil on wood panel and was an altarpiece commissioned by the crossbowmen’s guild in Louvain, Belgium. Jesus’s body is at the center of the scene, being carefully lifted down from his cross. He is surrounded by mourners, his mother, Mary, swooning in her grief as John the Evangelist reaches out to support her and Mary Magdalene wringing her hands, her head bowed in sorrow. The figures in the artwork do not fit completely within the frame of the altarpiece and the only the lower part of the cross is shown in full. In his Deposition, Rogier van der Weyden attempts to capture the extreme grief apparent at Christ’s death and reflect the emotion onto the observer, placing him/her within the narrative.
She is a spiritual woman who is able to express her faith and faith led life through the stories she writes down in this diary. She claims to be a Christian woman in all of these stories. “And Hilarianus the procurator, who at that time had received the right of capital punishment in the place of the dead proconsul Minucis Timinainus, said, “Spare the white hairs of your father, spare your infant son. Perform the rite for the health of the emperors!” And I responded: “I will not do it.” HIlarianus said: “Are you a Christian?” And I responded: “I am a Christian”” (Perpetua). This dialogue shows that even in a time where her father and her child were on the line, she would still claim in front of the forum that she is a Christian. This is extremely important, because many people would be likely to hide their faith to save their family members, while she thought it was more important to express her faith
In Fin-de siècle Vienna, Carl E. Schorske outlines how the hegemony of classical liberalism in Austria became challenged and consequently eroded by the emergence of new social groups, which eventually gained political dominance over the liberals. As these new social groups had strongly opposing ideas to the liberal class, the loss in political power quickly evolved into a psychological defeat. The liberal culture no longer had conviction of their “legacy of rationality, moral law, and progress”.
I predict that Diondra Wertzner’s father killed Patty Day and her two daughters on January 3. One possible explanation is that Diondra was pregnant with Ben’s child. Diondra’s father had given her a promise ring to symbolize abstinence and waiting until marriage to have children. Mr. Wertzner was apart of a rich, opulent family. He was rarely home, often missing out on many moment’s of Diondra’s life, which would cause him to be angry at himself, as well as Ben. Diondra once told Ben that if her father ever found out she broke the promise and had a child out of wedlock, “he would take her outside and shoot her in the head” (Flynn 201). Diondra claimed that her father talked like this because he had been deployed in the Vietman War. Another reason why Mr. Wertzner killed part of the Day family was because he was looking for Ben and wanted justice for what happened to his daughter. His original plan was to find Ben and kill him, but since Ben was no where to be seen, he killed Ben’s mother and two sister’s, forgetting that Libby was in the house. Once Ben was charged with the murders, Diondra’s father felt no need to go after Libby, assuming the murders were enough justice. No one had ever known that Diondra and Ben were
In the late 1800s, Chancellor Otto Von Bismarck used different strategical plans in order to gain as much power possible, the majority of the plans consisted of him taking advantage of the different political parties. Bismarck used many traditional political strategies in order to gain the power he craved for, such as creating harsh laws and prohibiting certain beliefs or ideas. Unfortunately, these strategies did not satisfy the people, so Bismarck later started to increase the welfare of the working class, apologized to the Socialists, and did much more to obtain more political strength which eventually created a new conservatism. In an effort to increase political power for the Kaiser, Chancellor Otto Von Bismarck uses liberal and traditional
Throughout history, western philosophers have vigorously attempted to define the word freedom, to little avail. This is because the word carries so many meanings in many different contexts. The consequences of these philosophers’ claims are immense: as “free” people, we like to rely on the notion of freedom, yet our judicial system relentlessly fights to explain what we can and cannot do. For instance, is screaming “bomb!” on an airplane considered one of our “freedoms?” Martin Luther, in his “Preface to the Epistle of St. Paul to the Romans” asserts that people are free when their actions naturally reflect laws and morality to the point that those laws are considered unnecessary. Immanuel Kant, in his “An Answer to the Question: What is Enlightenment?”, articulates a similar view: freedom for Kant is the ability to exercise one’s reasoning without limitation in a public sphere. A deeper reading of these two texts exposes that Kant’s and Luther’s interpretations of freedom are actually more similar than different. Indeed, they are mutually exclusive: one cannot coexist with the other and Kant’s views can even be read as a restating of Luther’s understandings.
Joseph Martin Plumb had to steal food from the citizens and collect it from wherever he could because the army was not providing it for the men: “Our stomachs being empty…I soon became very faint” (Martin 101). The army was not taking care of the men properly and that is why he was acting the way he was. Throughout the entire book his number one complaint is food. Everything circles back to him not having food and he seems to worry/focus about that a lot. His daily life consisted of not eating: “I had now to enter again on my old system of starving; - there was nothing to eat” (Martin 102). From the very beginning they kept the men starving: “… excepting starvation…” (Martin 41). All the above reasons go to show why he ends up stealing
Kevin Gates is a visionary with a talent to express his emotion and thoughts . Making art with his words and showing truth through his struggle. So before you just assume that he's a rapper who promotes gangs, violence , and drugs . Ask yourself, what do you see outside ?
Wealhtheow is Hrothgar's queen and the mother of his two sons. Wealhtheow portrays the role of a traditional Anglo-Saxon woman at the time. When Wealhtheow is first introduced to the audience, she immediately falls into her role as peaceful greeter and cocktail waitress. The author writes, "Then Wealhtheow came forth / folk-queen of the Danes daughter of Helmingas / and Hrothgar's bedmate. She hailed all of them / spoke her peace-words stepped to the gift-throne / fetched to her king the first ale-cup" (ll. 612-6). Wealhtheow then proceeds through the meadhall "offering hall-joy to old and to young / with rich treasure-cups" (ll. 621-2). When Wealhtheow first approaches Beowulf and the Geats, she "bore him a cup / with gold-gleaming hands held it before him / graciously greeted the Geats' warleader" (ll. 623-5). The author then reinforces that she is a member of the weaker gender by directing Wealhtheow to her proper pos...
My thesis statement is that the world of the worlds is stupid and the text in out-of-date. The structure of this book was set on the year of 1898. One of the languages that is not how we talk is on page four “It is possible that the infusoria under the microscope do the same.” Who use the word infusoria anymore? When you read the book what did you think? When my brain thinks of this book it thinks of “oh my gosh really”. On page seventy-eight the narrator says “ hist” as in a whisper. “Hello it is not hist it is pist not hist”. Really you need to think Mr. H.G. Wells. Then he uses “vast”. What in your right mind would make you put the vast as a word in a book? On the page one-twenty-nine he put “what the devil it is”. Really who would say that my brain even tells me not to say that? You just do not just go outside and say “Hey honey, what devil it is”. What. If you haven’t got my point yet then you should look in a dictionary and
Many things in life take place in making us into who each of us are. Our past experiences, how we perceive things, and even how our parents raise us while we are growing up, are all believed to take a part of being an individual person. Otto Rank brought the concepts of life, and death to our attention which raises more questions about how we work as humans. Does fear take a part of making you who you are? Or does it deprive you of who you have the chance of becoming? Otto Rank did his best to explain how we, as humans actually perceive life, and death, and how fear can counteract our views, and actions. He searched for a way for humans to find out how to completely balance our lives to keep us satisfied as individuals, and in multiple different relationships.
In the 1960’s segregation was a problem for people all over America. There were many people all over the country who helped the cause of freedom for all the non-white people. These people were successful at their goal and are regarded as heroes today.
Rainer Maria Rilke once said, “There are so many things about which some old man ought to tell one while one is little; for when one is grown one would know them as a matter of course.” Rilke himself did not have the healthiest relationship with his parents as a child; his father was a failed military officer turned railway official, and his mother neglected him, too busy mourning for the loss of her firstborn, who lived only a week. At a young age, Rilke was sent to military school by his parents, only to be transferred to a preparatory school by his uncle, who recognized his talent for writing. Many of Rilke’s poems characterize the relationship between the parent and child, describing the ways in which both should behave, in an attempt