Sentences with phrase «of mediaeval»

I was reminded of the mediaeval «scholares vagantes» (wandering scholars) with Peggy like a modern day tour guide whose itinerary was to have us travel from place to place, teacher to teacher, seeking wisdoms.

But what you are really arguing for is a strategic map — even one of those mediaeval ones with continents half drawn.

Furthermore it is not yet 1000 years since the peak of the Mediaeval Warm Period which lasted from about 950 to 1250 AD

Unless you can produce an overlay back to the peak of the Mediaeval Warm Period I prefer to keep an open mind especially since there are many reputable scientists who do not adopt your firm view.

You don't need much knowledge of cultural history and the philosophy of science to understand why the testimony of mediaeval monks written in Latin doesn't stand a chance against statistics.

An interesting comment — «You don't need much knowledge of cultural history and the philosophy of science to understand why the testimony of mediaeval monks written in Latin doesn't stand a chance against statistics.

Their form of energy efficiency frequently results in nothing more than pushing everyone back into some romantic vision of a mediaeval idyll.

A lot of people were rather fond of the mediaeval warm period.

On another subject, now that we know from Al Gore's researches, that our SUVs, which keep raising the CO2 levels at Mauna Loa, are the direct cause of the Mediaeval Warm Period (remember that was just 800 years before the present rising CO2 event); we can predict with near certainty, that when everybody who signed on to the Kyoto accords, meets their obligations, resulting in a coming dearth of atmospheric CO2, that is going to directly cause an event which will become known as the little ice age which happened in the 1600 to 1840 time range.

He cites McIntyre et al. (2003, 2005) who apparently demonstrated that the erasure of the mediaeval warm period in the 2001 graph had been caused by inappropriate data selection and incorrect use of statistical methods (rReliance upon bristlecone pine data).

The discovery, or utilisation, of more or better proxy records might improve our understanding of the Mediaeval Warm Period.

95 Jump up W. R. Valentiner, The Bamberg Rider Studies of Mediaeval German Sculpture, Zeitlin Ver Brugge, 1956 online excerpts.

He cites McIntyre et al. (2003, 2005) who apparently demonstrated that the erasure of the mediaeval warm period in the 2001 graph had been caused by inappropriate data selection and incorrect use of statistical methods (rReliance upon bristlecone pine data).

peak temperatures of the mediaeval warm period were warmer than those of the last few decades of the 20th century»?

For the Quelccaya Ice Cap (13.95 oS, 70.83 oW), this work revealed that peak temperatures of the mediaeval warm period were warmer than those of the last few decades of the 20th century.»

The castles of mediaeval times were sometimes captured by another lord, so — perhaps it may happen to your castle.

Similarly there are some in this country who hanker after the lost paradise of a mediaeval Merry England.

(«Insects,» i. e. lice, were an unfailing token of mediaeval sainthood.

In some ways, states where Islamic Shari'a law is rigidly enforced are reminiscent of mediaeval Christian society.

Yet the Reformers, critical though they were of the Pope and of the mediaeval church, were anxious not to throw the baby out with the bathwater.

If in the ruins of Rome, St. Augustine dreamed of a civilisation that should be the City of God on earth, and penned, even while weighted with despair and expectation of the end of the world, the noble outline of the Christian order which inspired so much of mediaeval thought, how much more reason have we today, with so much greater resources, to expect for our civilisation a resurrection out of our decay.

The development of the mediaeval church, the Renaissance, the Reformation, the Enlightenment, the Evangelical Revival and the advent of modernity have all been significant features of the stream itself, sometimes strengthening it, sometimes modifying it, and always changing it.

R. James Long, (Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 1991), 5.

[3] By identifying, as Fr John Sivalon alleges, a «trilogy of the demonic: secularism, relativism and pluralism» Pope Benedict «dreams of a re-established, romanticised culture of Mediaeval Europe».

In his Spirit of Mediaeval Philosophy, Etienne Gilson considers how medieval Catholic philosophers would have regarded «an exercise of reason that would be purely philosophical and systematically withdrawn from the influence of faith.»

They themselves were well - instructed in the traditional schema, and it controlled the biblical theology of Calvin, for example, not less than that of mediaeval theologians.

He was a ferocious fanatic, whose object was to destroy all the improvements of modern times, and force society back to the government, customs, and ideas of mediaeval days.

But I am not constrained by any creed in the matter, and looking impartially into certain miracles of mediaeval and modern times, I have come to the conclusion that they occurred.

Not exact matches

From the romantic canals of Venice to the walled mediaeval town of Dubrovnik via the wilderness of Scotland's Isle of Skye, tourism is morphing into a nightmare for many locals, despite the jobs and income it undoubtedly generates.

This approach assumes we can not learn from ancient or mediaeval dramas the way educated audiences of the 1600s and 1800s did, taking the particularity of the time straight, and as a key thematic element of the play.

Jane Critten has a MA in Mediaeval History from the University of St Andrews.

How far the Bible was familiar to the laity — or to the ordinary parish priest, for that matter — during the Middle Ages, is a question upon which mediaeval historians appear to differ; but it is safe to say that what knowledge of the Bible there was lay within the schema, which gave the key to its understanding.

The mediaeval interpretive assumption that God's purpose is to save people out of the world so they escape and «go to heaven» is unbiblical and confuses the biblical message at every level.

He brings out the tricky path that believing scientists did have to tread so carefully as the mediaeval Church gave way to the counter-Reformation Church, simultaneous with the beginnings of the Scientific Revolution.

Although the Church has preserved a tradition as a patron of the arts for more than a millennium, and the great mediaeval cathedrals in particular have portrayed Christianity through their paintings, sculptures, and perhaps especially their windows, Catholic teachers are now refocusing on literary, cultural and artistic beauty as a conscious resource for the transmission of the faith.

For example, on the one hand, when St Thomas Aquinas in his great mediaeval theological works treats theology as the «queen of the sciences», yet «the subordination of metaphysics to theology did not necessarily entail an obstruction to the study of nature» (p. 81)-- it «had not resulted in a sterile fusion» (p. 84).

Putting the time - machine into reverse, we may find our first stopping place at the great upheaval of the sixteenth century which changed mediaeval Europe into the Europe that we know — or did know until the great wars once again moved the old landmarks.

The extension of Calvinism to all spheres of human activity was extremely important to a world emerging from an agrarian mediaeval economy into a commercial industrial era.

If the mediaeval doctrine is presupposed, and it is coming to the fore again, that the spiritual soul only comes into existence at a later stage in the growth of the embryo, several pre-human stages will lie between the fertilized ovum and the organism animated by a spiritual soul.

Many mediaeval speculations about the condition of Adam in Paradise, which must not be confused with the real doctrine of faith, show themselves for this reason to be false, as a projection of the condition of ideal perfection back into the beginning.

Running through the lives of all the mediaeval mystics was this same great truth.

Indeed, Erasmus in the sixteenth century called for an ethically responsible, realistic peace policy, far removed from the mediaeval fanaticism of the Counter-Reformation or the cynicism of modern real politics.13

«The order of society» (in mediaeval Christendom), writes David Edwards, «was at bottom upheld by religion... It was God who decreed the acceptance of the rights and duties of each grade in society.

Heidegger's radical link between — up to an identification of — Being and Time would have been unthinkable in a mediaeval and even a modern context: to talk about Being and Time would have been something like talking about God and the world, or about the (eternal) Infinite and the (temporal) finite.

Within that limited framework, it's justifiable, as the musical aspect of the quadrivium mediaeval academic norm wiped out almost everything earlier.

We have here again the understanding of the Church as a mediaeval Christendom where all structures and levels of knowledge are determined and controlled by theology and tradition.

Especially Occidentals seem all too prone to identify the latter with the metaphysics of the Vedanta without doing justice to the characteristic spirit of devotion to which the earlier and later mediaeval documents of Hinduism testify.

Having reviewed the mediaeval period, Sullivan then looks at the Reformation challenge to the cult of the saints.

The development of Protestant Liberalism contrasted strongly, at first, with the response of Catholicism to modernity, partly because the Roman Catholic Church has been a much more authoritarian structure, and partly because the Roman Catholic Church remained more firmly committed to the mediaeval age after the Protestant Reformation.

So the mediaeval age grew out of the ancient world by a complex succession of steps or minor events, just as the modem age, in turn, emerged from the mediaeval age.