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culture is a Western culture, is always problematic because of the inherent violence in cultural history. As Benjamin has stated, ...

Ages were a time of intense emotion. Every event brought intense feelings and the people expressed those feelings as a child might...

Abortion is a hotly contested controversy in the United States. There is a very long history of abortion. Ancient and medieval civ...

This research paper offers a brief discussion of the dominance of the Christian Church in regards to architecture during the the m...

This research paper describes the basis for the feudal system, as well as the nature of medieval cities and the motte and bailey c...

This research paper describes the fundamental features of gothic cathedrals as well as the cultural meaning that these buildings h...

of specific interest, and which concern morality in the context of war, are those that argue for and against putting the Mitylene ...

This 4 page paper discusses David Northrup’s idea that history should be considered as comprising two periods, before and after ...

for both of these elements are indicative of the distinction between ordinary love and that which extols virtue, honor and courage...

version is richly colored; Mary here wears a bright red robe as does a man who might be Joseph, who is in the background (Adoratio...

sections of the saga. For example, an analysis of the section detailing Thangbrands mission and the passages that deal with jurid...

by humanity, without turning to any other body of factual information or knowledge. In other words, it is possible for people to c...

examination of this there is a letter written by Leo III to Umar II which states the following: "In brief you admit that we say th...

of cheating going on. There are people who lie to get what they want, people who have sex outside of their marriage, and ultimatel...

present Beowulf as a young hero, who is called upon by his fathers old friend King Hrothgar of Geatland, to defend his subjects ag...

weddings resembled pagan festivals and most of then involved the celebration of spring (important planting season for these agricu...

Century Japan. Much like Genji, Bridge of Dreams has the same lyrical, almost dreamy prose to it. But unlike the men in Genji auth...

children to term, nurse them, and are endowed with a combination of hormones that render them the desirable caretakers. While wom...

the founders of modern sociology; his interests were wide ranging, including the sociology of politics and the sociology of religi...

power to impoverish a kingdom, this was a powerful deterrent. There were also craft guilds, whose members all practiced the same...

monstrous creature Grendel, Grendels mother, and the dragon - it considers the impact of social obligations (loyalty to God and co...

are knit by Chaucer into a complex tapestry in this allegorical tale, illustrating the instability of lifes joys, but also the sam...

In nine pages this paper discusses how Petrarch provides the Medieval to Renaissance transition and examines the poet's letters an...

In seven pages this paper discusses how the relationship between warriors and their king is symbolically depicted as that of sons ...

In five pages this paper discusses how Medieval nobility was presented in Inferno by Dante Alighieri. There are 4 sources cited i...

This paper consists of six pages and examines what distinguished the scholar from other people during the Medieval era. Nine sour...

written as hardly to be distinguished from memoirs... The splendid pages of Froissart, with his heart-stirring and eye-dazzling de...

In three pages this essay analyzes the Medieval epic and argues that the most human character is Hrothgar. There is no bibliograp...

In five pages the bonds of kinship and family as represented in this classic Medieval poem are discussed. One source is cited in ...

In eight pages this paper discusses the chivalric code of honor and a knight's pursuit of financial gain within the context of the...