Tag: crusades
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Gnosis, Love, and The Roots of Chivalry
from peopleofshambhala.com: Denis de Rougemont’s Love in the Western World is in part a critique of fictional portrayals of romantic love, whether in film, TV, novels or plays. He argues that the conception of love perennially served up for our entertainment makes no real sense and in the worst case, make us dissatisfied with relationships…
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The Beguines: A Lost World Made by Women
from nytimes.com: If feminism means a desire for independence from patriarchal authority, the beguines — a Roman Catholic laic order that began in the 13th century and branched across northwest Europe — represented, perhaps, the world’s oldest women’s movement. Unlike sisterhoods that required a life spent apart from society under vows of chastity, these Catholic…