Jacobus de Voragine - Jacobus de Voragine Jacobus de Voragine (c. 1230 - July 13, 1298) was an Italian chronicler and archbishop of Genoa. He was the author of the Golden Legend, one of the most popular religious works of the middle ages, a collection of the legendary lives of the greater saints of the medieval church. Biography Born at the little village of Varazze, near Genoa. He entered the Dominican order in 1244, and besides preaching with success in many parts of Italy, taught in the schools of his own fraternity. He was provincial of Lombardy from 1267 till 1286, when he was removed at the meeting of the order in Paris. He also represented his own province at the councils of Lucca (1288) and Ferrara (1290). On the.
Golden Legend - Golden Legend The Golden Legend by Jacobus de Voragine is a collection of fanciful hagiographies, lives of the saints, that became a late mediæval best seller. It was probably compiled around 1260. Initially titled simply Legenda Sanctorum, Latin for "Readings on the Saints," its popularity gained it the title by which it is best known. More than a thousand manuscript copies of the work survive, and when printing was invented in the 1450s, editions appeared quickly, not only in Latin, but also in every major European language. It is said that no book other than the Bible was so widely read during the late Middle Ages. It was one of the first books William Caxton printed in the English language; Caxton's version appeared in 1483. The book sought to compile.
Early Renaissance painting - 4 German artists 5 Italian artists 6 Works 7 Main viewing locations Themes and symbolism The works of art of this period feature mainly religious themes (the Church was the main client of these artists), but also some purely figurative themes. The religious symbolism is largely drawn from the work of Jacobus de Voragine, The Golden Legend (1260). Some more mundane themes were treated, but they were often treated via a religious or mythological representations. For instance, Early Renaissance artists sometimes used the theme of Adam and Eve as a way to represent female and male nudes in a then morally acceptable way. Sometimes a fig leaf covered their genitals. Techniques The use of perspective is also notable in these paintings. Flemish artists Hieronymus Bosch (c.1460-1518) Pieter Bruegel the Elder (c.1520-1569).
1230 - united with Kingdom of Castile Approximate year of creation for the Carmina Burana poetry and song collection Births Jacobus De Voragine (approximate year), Italian chronicler, archbishop of Genoa Deaths September 23 or 24 - Alfonso IX of Castile Monarchs/Presidents Aragon - James I King of Aragon and count of Barcelona (reigned from 1213 to 1276) Castile - Ferdinand III, the Saint King of Castile and Leon (reigned from 1217 to 1252) Navarre - Sancho VII the Strong King of Navarre (reigned from 1194 to 1234) Portugal - Afonso II, the Fat, King of Portugal (reigned from 1212 to 1233)\n.
Caesar of Heisterbach - of that lore. The work was often referred to by preachers seeking material for sermons in the late Middle Ages. The work was popular and was widely distributed, showing that it catered well to the tastes of the times; it was perhaps the second largest late mediaeval best-seller, second only to the Golden Legend of Jacobus de Voragine. He is also remembered for a maxim on the rise and fall of monasteries; he wrote that discipline causes prosperity in a monastery, and prosperity undermines discipline..
Christian mythology - or amendments to Biblical tales, such as the tales of Salomé, the Three Wise Men, or St Dismas. Supplying names for unnamed Biblical characters: see List of names for the Biblical nameless Literary treatments of traditional Biblical lore, such as Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained by John Milton Literary treatments of themes from Christian theology or eschatology such as the Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri Tales of saints (hagiographies) whose historicity is doubtful, like Saint Christopher or St Catherine of Alexandria Miraculous stories of saints such as are found in Jacobus de Voragine's Golden Legend. The legends of King Arthur and other tales of medieval chivalry, especially the Quest for the Holy Grail. Legendary history of the Christian churches, such as the tales from the Crusades or the paladins of Charlemagne.
Saint George - slays it and saves the princess. The grateful citizens then abandon their ancestral Paganism and convert to Christianity. The account used to be considered factual but this belief has been progressively abandoned. On the other hand few doubt it contains religious symbolism but various interpretations have been suggested. George can be seen as representing Christianity. In that case the dragon probably represents paganism, idolatry and/or the Devil. However historians consider the roots of the story to be older than Christianity itself. It has been noted that the origin of the saint is said to be partly from Cappadocia in Asia Minor. And that Asia Minor was among the earliest regions to adopt the popular worship of the saint. But the region had long worshiped other religious figures. It is likely that.
Saint Christopher - emperor Decius. He is not considered likely to be mythical. One Saint, Two Lives The story of this saint's life is astoundingly different, depending upon whether one consults Orthodox or Roman Catholic sources. The Roman Catholic Christopher St. Christopher, by Albrecht Dürer Among Roman Catholics, the most popular St. Christopher legend is preserved in Jacobus de Voragine's Golden Legend. The story states that Christopher was a sort of Canaanite giant or ogre, who was said to have lived during the first half of the 3rd century. He was twelve cubits (about eighteen feet) tall, and had a most fearsome countenance. His name originally was "Offero" or "Reprobus." Such was his pride, that he vowed that he would serve only a master who was more fearsome than himself. After research, Christopher determined.
Saint George and the Dragon - Saint George versus the dragon According to the Golden Legend by Jacobus de Voragine, the story of Saint George and the Dragon took place in Silene in the province of Libya. This town had a pond large as a lake where a plague-bearing dragon dwelled. This dragon had a poisonous breath weapon, so presumably it was green in colour. To appease the dragon, the people of Silene used to feed it two sheep a day, but they ran out of sheep, so they had to feed it humans instead. They chose who got fed to the dragon by a lottery. It happened that the lot fell on the princess of Silene. The king, distraught with grief, told the people they could have all his gold and silver and half of his.
Saint Apollonia - presbytera, by which he very probably means not a virgin advanced in years as is generally reported, but a deaconess) was held in high esteem. These men seized her also and by repeated blows broke all her teeth. They then erected outside the city gates a pile of fagots and threatened to burn her alive if she refused to repeat after them impious words (either a blasphemy against Christ, or an invocation of the heathen gods). Given, at her own request, a little freedom, she sprang quickly into the fire and was burned to death." This brief tale was extended and moralized in Jacobus de Voragine's Golden Legend (ca 1260). Apollonia and a whole group of early martyrs did not await the death they were threatened with, but either to preserve.
Seven Sleepers - saints. The basic outline of the tale appears in Gregory of Tours, and in Paul the Deacon's History of the Lombards,The best known version of the story appears in Jacobus de Voragine's Golden Legend. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 The legend 2 The career of the legend 2.1 Syriac origins 2.2 Dissemination 2.3 Early modern literature 3 External reference The legend The outline of the story is that during the persecutions of the Roman emperor Decius, in around 250, seven young men were accused of Christianity. They were given some time to recant their faith; they gave their worldly goods to the poor, and retired to a mountain to pray, where they fell asleep. The emperor, seeing that their attitude towards paganism had not improved, ordered the mouth of the cave.
Magic (paranormal) - price for which they sell their souls, if they but knew. (al-Qur'an 2:102) Examples of the suppression of magical belief and practice range from the eradication of neighboring polytheistic tribes by the early Hebrews, to the attempted suppression and eventual appropriation of pagan holidays by the Catholic Church, to the mingled motives of the Conquistadors, to the Salem witch trials of the Puritans. During such periods, the tendency of magic is to become more obscure and esoteric, with a certain element in society always managing to preserve lore and tradition, often in disguised or metaphorical terms. This pattern gave rise to the term occult. The motivation of much scientific enquiry is similar to the motivation of magic; that it is possible to discover the underlying reality behind mundane reality, and that.
Magic (paranormal)/temp - with the older traditions. Officially, Judaism, Christianity and Islam characterize magic as witchcraft, which is generally regarded in all three religions as an occasionally effective, though damned art. Although more positive forms of magical thinking have existed within these religions throughout their history, those who subscribe to these beliefs are invariably labelled heretics. (See Magic and Religion for more information on the interaction of monotheistic and polytheistic traditions.) Belief in various magical practices has waxed and waned in European and Western history, under pressure from either organised monotheistic religions or from scepticism about the reality of magic, and the ascendency of scientism. The time of the Emperor Julian of Rome, marked by a reaction against the influence of Christianity, saw a revival of magical practices associated with neo-Platonism under the guise.
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Jacobus Gallus - Jacobus Gallus Jacobus Gallus Carniolus (1550 - July 18, 1591) was a Slovenian composer. Jacobus Gallus was born as Jakob Petelin in 1550 in Ribnica, Slovenia. He is best known for his sacred music. A Cistercian monk, Gallus travelled in Bohemia, Moravia, and Silesia, and went to Melk Abbey, Lower Austria. He was a member of the Viennese court chapel in 1574, and was choirmaster to the bishop of Olomouc, Moravia in 1579-1585. He used the Latin form of his name, to which he often added the adjective Carniolus, thus giving credit to his home land, Carniola. His most notable work is the six part Opus musicum, 1577, a collection of motets that would eventually cover the liturgical needs of the entire ecclesiastical year. The motet.
Jacobus, Pennsylvania - Jacobus, Pennsylvania Jacobus is a borough located in York County, Pennsylvania. As of the 2000 census, the borough had a total population of 1,203. Geography \nJacobus is located at 39°52'57" North, 76°42'43" West (39.882516, -76.712068)1. According to the United States Census Bureau, the borough has a total area of 2.4 km² (0.9 mi²). 2.4 km² (0.9 mi²) of it is land and none of the area is covered with water. Demographics \nAs of the census of 2000, there are 1,203 people, 481 households, and 379 families residing in the borough. The population density is 510.4/km² (1,316.0/mi²). There are 500 housing units at an average density of 212.1/km² (547.0/mi²). The racial makeup of the borough is 99.42% White, 0.00% African American, 0.25% Native American, 0.17% Asian, 0.00%.
Jacobus Balduinus - Jacobus Balduinus Jacobus Balduinus (d. 1225), Italian jurist of the 13th century, was by birth a Bolognese, and is reputed to have been of a noble family. He was a pupil of Azo, and the master of Odofredus, of Hostiensis, and of Jacobus de Ravanis, the last of whom has the reputation of having first applied dialectical forms to legal science. His great fame as a professor of civil law at the University of Bologna caused Balduinus to be elected podesta of the city of Genoa, where he was entrusted with the reforms of the law of the Genoese republic. He died at Bologna in 1225, and has left behind him some treatises on procedure, the earliest of their kind..
Jacobus van Meteren - Jacobus van Meteren Sir Jacobus van Meteren was a/the? financier and publisher of early English versions of the Bible. He was a/the? financier and publisher of the Coverdale Old Testament, the printing of which was completed on the 4th of October 1535. He was also a/the? publisher of Matthew Bible of 1637, the combined work of William Tyndale, Coverdale and John Rogers. There has been some debate over these facts, which the following quote from the entry "Bible, English" in the 1911 Encyclopedia illustrates: "In 1877 Henry Stevens, in his catalogue of the Caxton Exhibition, pointed out a statement by a certain Simeon Ruytinck in his life of Emanuel van Meteren, appended to the latter's Nederlandische Historic (16,4), that Jacob van Meteren, the father of Emanuel,.
Jacobus Kapteyn - Jacobus Kapteyn Jacobus Cornelius Kapteyn, (January 19, 1851 - June 18, 1922) was a Dutch astronomer, best known for his extensive studies of the Milky Way and as the first discoverer of evidence for galatic rotation. Kapteyn was born in Barneveld, and went to the University of Utrecht to study mathematics and physics in 1868. In 1875, after having finished his thesis, he work for three years at the Leiden Observatory, before becoming the first Professor of Astronomy and Theoretical Mechanics at the University of Groningen, which he remained until his retirement in 1921. Between 1896 and 1900, lacking an observatory, he volunteered to measure photographic plates taken by David Gill, who was conducting a photographic survey of the southern hemisphere stars at the Cape Town.
Jacobus Arminius - Jacobus Arminius Jacobus Arminius (1560-1609), Dutch Reformed theologian and author, was born at Oudewater, South Holland, on October 10, 1560. Arminius is a Latinized form of Hermannsoon or Hermansen. His father died while Jacobus was an infant, leaving his mother a widow with small children. A priest, Theodorus Aemilius, adopted Jacobus and sent him to school at Utrecht. His mother was slain during the Spanish massacre of Oudewater in 1575. About that year Arminius was sent to study theology at the University of Leiden by the kindness of friends. He remained at Leiden from 1576 to 1582. His teachers in theology included Lambertus Danaeus, Johannes Drusius, Guillaume Feuguereius, and Johann Kolmann. Kolmann believed and taught that high Calvinism made God both a tyrant and an executioner..
