Sentences with phrase «medieval legend»

(Selected Essays, I [1869], 546; cf. Chips from a German Workshop [London, 1875], IV, 179 - 89) One of the most widespread medieval legends of the saints was that of Barlaam and Joasaph; that is the legend of Buddha entering into the Eastern as well as the Roman church via Persia, Arabia, Syria, and Byzantium.

Many of the characters and figures u see there are based on medieval legends and some rites are even of pagan origin.In some regions, especialy in the alps these rites can be even more frightening.

There is a lovely medieval legend that Judas Iscariot once gave a cup of cold water to a thirsty person, and that simple act of out - goingness was enough for God to use to bring him eternal health.

Only then does the reader discover that the grail is not a chalice, as medieval legend has it, but a tomb holding the bones of Mary Magdalene.

Medieval legends took him as far from Palestine as Britain.

The uniqueness gives it a wistful quality, and the name Tristan is also known through medieval legend.

We should thus have a schema repeated a thousand times in all the ancient and medieval legends, in which the relation between gods and men is precisely the relation of a crushing will with a man which makes a mere automaton of the will of the man himself.

According to a medieval legend the Rabbi of Prague once molded a statue of clay and brought it to life by placing the sacred and unspoken name of Almighty God on its forehead.

This recalls the medieval legend of Arthur, Merlin and the sword in the stone.

Between the hordes of stowaway rats that accompany Dracula's arrival, and a town - plaza dance of folly by doomed survivors (a Herzog addition), it's like being present at the birth of a medieval legend.

An intricate tapestry evocative of both medieval legend and the book's rugged coastal setting, The Essex Serpent's cover beautifully conveys the novel's keen intelligence, meticulous construction and delight in the mysteries of the natural world.

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But as their relationship intensifies, Jack slowly begins to lose his mind — taking readers on an intimate journey into the fantasy kingdom creeping into the edges of his world.As the novella moves back and forth between a medieval legend and our own, contemporary world, nothing is as it seems.

Everywhere I looked I marveled at the numerous paintings of medieval legends and heroes.

The opera is based on the Medieval legend of the tragic romance between the knight Tristan and the princess Isolde.