Sentences with phrase «medieval tradition»

Steeped in medieval tradition and architecture, the place known as the «City of a Hundred Spires» offers a number of must - see attractions as the Prague Castle, St. Vitus Cathedral, Charles Bridge and Wenceslas Square.

Earlier in May the streets of Madrid were taken over by flower queens to welcome in the spring with old medieval traditions.

Often more active in the world than in a Church that is still clinging to many of its medieval traditions which bind it like a grave cloth.

This understanding — that creation can disclose the trinitarian relations of God — is how most of the medieval tradition, reaching back to St. Augustine's De Trinitate, proceeded.

There has also been a deliberate attempt to develop our particular situation into a strong culture for the College, mainly rooted in traditions that staff experienced in their own schools a generation ago, or in revivals of medieval traditions, such as that of the boy - bishop (a boy rules the College for a day on the feast of St Nicholas.)

He illuminates Rembrandt's acute sensitivity to the essential pathos and drama that make these stories both entertaining and profound moral lessons, Rembrandt's wonderfully earthy depiction of the fall in an etching of 1638 is revealed as innovative in its rejection of the classical ideal yet firmly grounded in the medieval tradition, «which had imagined Adam and Eve not as smoothly sculpted by the hand of Divinity but rather as roughly fashioned, grotesque vessels of shame.»

By the late 1790s the medieval tradition of ultramontanism was being revived by Joseph de Maistre and other French Catholic intellectuals.

30 The word she used for love was minne, «the dynamic love of a person for God,» 31 giving one the impression that Hadewijch took the medieval tradition of courtly love and spiritualized it.

In this sense, these positions come full circle and begin to look like that great ritual enemy of Protestantism; namely, the mechanical view of the sacraments attributed to the medieval tradition.

A tradition across the islands of the Azores, the Cult of the Holy Spirit dates to medieval traditions, involving «promises» made to God (Portuguese: promessas), the processions of faith to and from the Church and feasts of meat - broth soup and bread donated to the poor.