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Whose little boy are you?
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black
church
coming-of-age
epiphany
god
harlem
institution
james-baldwin
racism
religion
renaissance
youth
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James Baldwin |
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3dc384e
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Art always penetrates the particular fissures in one's psychic life.
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renaissance
swerve
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Stephen Greenblatt |
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53c9c3a
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There was a time in the ancient world - a very long time - in which the central cultural problem must have seemed an inexhaustible outpouring of books. Where to put them all? How to organize them on the groaning shelves? How to hold the profusion of knowledge in one's head? The loss of this plenitude would have been virtually inconceivable to anyone living in its midst. Then, not all at once but with the cumulative force of a mass extinction, the whole enterprise came to an end. What looked stable turned out to be fragile, and what had seemed for all time was only for the time being.
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renaissance
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Stephen Greenblatt |
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0f526ed
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Nobody can understand the greatness of the thirteenth century, who does not realize that it was a great growth of new things produced by a living thing. In that sense it was really bolder and freer than what we call the renaissance, which was a resurrection of old things discovered in a dead thing... and the Gospel according to St. Thomas... was a new thrust like the titanic thrust of Gothic engineering; and its strength was in a God that makes all things new.
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civilization
culture
europe
history
renaissance
thirteenth-century
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G.K. Chesterton |
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00326a6
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A comparably capacious embrace of beauty and pleasure - an embrace that somehow extends to death as well as life, to dissolution as well as creation - characterizes Montaigne's restless reflections on matter in motion, Cervantes's chronicle of his mad knight, Michelangelo's depiction of flayed skin, Leonardo's sketches of whirlpools, Caravaggio's loving attention to the dirty soles of Christ's feet.
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cervantes
montaigne
renaissance
swerve
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Stephen Greenblatt |
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c9df8a3
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In short, it became possible - never easy, but possible - in the poet Auden's phrase to find the mortal world enough.
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auden
renaissance
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Stephen Greenblatt |
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b7cf40e
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"In other words, Botticelli's ideal women look like women and not boys. They're soft and curvaceous. Healthy and rounded. Women of the size figured in this painting were considered beautiful for centuries, if not millennia. They were the aesthetic ideal during my lifetime and long after." He brought his mouth to her neck before whispering, "My ideal hasn't changed."
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botticelli
plus-size
renaissance
william-to-raven
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Sylvain Reynard |
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de8ae9e
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The medieval period based its scriptural exegesis upon the Vulgate translation of the Bible. There was no authorized version of this text, despite the clear need for a standardized text that had been carefully checked against its Hebrew and Greek originals. A number of versions of the text were in circulation, their divergences generally being overlooked. It was not until 1592 than an 'official' version of the text was produced by the church authorities, sensitive to the challenges to the authority of the Vulgate by Renaissance humanist scholars and Protestant theologians.
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exegesis
humanists
medieval-church
protestants
reformation
renaissance
vulgate
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Alister E. McGrath |
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8aa736e
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We are fascinated by Ramses as Renaissance Christians were by the American Indians, those (human?) beings who had never known the word of Christ.
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christ
god
indians
ramses
renaissance
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Jean Baudrillard |
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5dd9611
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During periods of root expansion things have always looked as confused and topsy-turvy and purposeless as they do now. The whole Renaissance is supposed to have resulted from the topsy-turvy feeling caused by Columbus' discovery of a new world. It just shook people up. The topsy-turviness of that time is recorded everywhere. There was nothing in the flat-earth views of the Old and New Testaments that predicted it. Yet people couldn't deny it. The only way they could assimilate it was to abandon the entire medieval outlook and enter into a new expansion of reason.
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civilization
discoveries
evolution
philosophy
renaissance
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Robert M. Pirsig |
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I did think about a Ph.D. in computer science, but this is a time in industry where theory and practice are coming together in amazing ways. Yes, there's money, but what really interests me is that private-sector innovation happens faster. You can get more done and on a larger scale and have more impact. With all the start-ups out there, I think this is a time like the Renaissance. Not just one person doing great work, but so many feeding off one another. If you lived then, wouldn't you go out and paint?
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emily-bach
industry
renaissance
theory
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Allegra Goodman |
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ebac706
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I kako ovaj tvoj spis ne ide ni za cim drugim nego da unisti ugled i vlast koju i medu svijetom i medu svjetinom uzivaju viteske knjige, ne treba ti prosjaciti sentencije od filozofa, recenice iz Svetog pisma, price od pjesnika, govore od retora, cudesa od svetaca, nego nastoj da ti u knjizi budu krepke, valjane i dobro probrane rijeci, pa da ti pricanje i recenice poteku zvucno i ugodno, koliko god mozes, znas i volis, a da misli svoje iskazujes ne brkajuci ih i ne zamracujuci. Nastoj i o tome da se citajuci tvoju historiju melankolik nasmije, smjesljivac da puca od smijeha, priprostomu da ne bude na dosadu, razborit covjek neka se divi invenciji, ozbiljan neka je ne odvrgne, a umnik neka je svagda hvali. Sve u sve, upni da razoris lose osnovanu zgradu tih viteskih knjiga sto ih mnogi mrze a jos brojniji hvale; ako to postignes, nisi postigao malenkost.
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inspirational
prologue
renaissance
spain
wrting
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Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra |