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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Apparitions"”.
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Apparitions of the Virgin Mary in modern European Roman Catholicism (from 1830)
… the humanistic psychological, in which marian apparitions are compared with other such phenomena and considered from the view of depth psychology. The major factors which distinguish them are the intensity of the experience and the ecclesial context. Secondly, ecclesiological: the visions …
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Avant Hergé. Etude des premières apparitions de bande dessinée en Belgique francophone (1830-1914).
Cette thèse de doctorat explore les premières apparitions de bande dessinée en Belgique francophone. Elle analyse notamment de manière approfondie la première bande dessinée réalisée en Belgique : "Le Déluge à Bruxelles" de Richard de Querelles (1847), les bandes parues dans les premiers journaux …
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Marian Apparitions in Cultural Contexts: applying Jungian depth psychological concepts to mass visions of the Virgin Mary.
… the Virgin Mary and examines the case of Marian apparitions in Zeitoun, Egypt. A review of the literature points to a prevailing socio-political approach to examining visions of the Virgin Mary while a psychoanalytical approach is generally lacking. The former approach suggests that Marian …
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From the Resurrection to the Ascension: Christ's post Resurrection appearances in Byzantine Art
… liturgy and politics. The earliest use of these apparitions in art is associated with baptism while in literature they were successfully employed against heresies. The Virgin’s participation in the post-Resurrection narrative reveals the way in which homilies and hymns inspire art. Another …
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An Exploration of the Context and Ecclesiastical Investigations of the Virgin's Reported Appearance in Knock, Ireland in 1879
… by which the Church investigates alleged apparitions and considers different models for conceptualizing the Church. The second chapter unpacks the context of two nineteenth century French apparitions. The third chapter explores the Knock apparition and the immediate historical context …
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On Background
… forms of invisible culture. Premonitions, apparitions, illusions, allusions, and relationships make matter apparent. Redirect the energy of the brain to the hands like MacLeish's dumb, old medallions. Accept given gifts of thread. Take only right turns. For paradisal commands, you are sent …
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Ronsard's Idoles: Epic, Ghosts and Irony in Pierre de Ronsard's Poetic Works
… with expressions of death and decay, ghostly apparitions named ‘idoles’ propose a reflection on fiction, humour and illusion. Through a selection of emblematic texts, this work proposes a new reading of Ronsard’s poetic ghosts highlighting their irony which reveals the paradoxes underpinning …
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Magic and the supernatural in eighteenth-century Wales: the world of the Rev. Edmund Jones (1702-1793)
… reasons, not least of which is his writing on apparitions, spirits, fairies, and magic in his Geographical, Historical, and Religious Account of the Parish of Aberystruth (1779) and Relation of Apparitions of Spirits in the Principality of Wales (1780). <br/><br/>These works were not merely …
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Dream Machine
… where conspiracies, hallucinations, and deathly apparitions seem to possess the same inherent logic as a blue sky.
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Une histoire de vie l'itinéraire social et religieux de Paul Roy
… disant bénéficiaire de révélations privées et d'apparitions de personnages à caractère religieux, une attention spéciale sera portée à ces deux phénomènes dont les origines remontent à la nuit des temps. Nous nous attarderons également aux motivations psycho-sociales qui incitent des individus à …
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L' influence des croisades sur l'art de la guerre en Occident aux XIIIe et XIVe siècles: antériorités et impacts
… l'art militaire des croisés qui firent leurs apparitions par la suite en Europe et, d'autres part, si les croisades eurent un impact sur la façon de guerroyer dans les armées en Occident pendant la seconde partie du XIIIe siècle et la première moitié du XIVe siècle. Une recherche sur …
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Shakespeare and superstition: A study of how shakespeare uses superstition and vision in Macbeth and Julius Caesar.
… superstition and visions such as dreams, omens, apparitions and ghosts in his plays to bring in some dramatic effects, chaos and also to bring in some confusion amongst the characters. It also reveals that the visions that are used in the two plays were all warnings which were meant for the main …
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The Enlightening Supernatural: Ghost Stories in the Late Eighteenth-Century Germany
… suggests that the relationship between ghostly apparitions and the Enlightenment was more complementary than oppositional. Ghosts do not only represent the persistence of the past, they also disrupt the normal conditions of the present in a way that enables progress towards new possibilities in …
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Visible Histories: Print Culture and the Reproducible Past in the Nineteenth-Century British Novel
… of the past), this project relates historical apparitions in novels by Walter Scott, Wilkie Collins, George Eliot, and Oscar Wilde to contemporaneous print media, including illustration, print series, and photography. Against the backdrop of modernizing shifts in popular visual culture, these …
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The haunted house of memory in the fiction of Stephen King
… the meanings behind the appearance of ghostly apparitions and suggests they may be less para-psychological and more psychoanalytical in nature. The second part, 'Creative Engagement', demonstrates the influence King's writing has had on my own work by providing an extract from a new novel, …
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El mundo visionario en la España moderna: manifestaciones y problemas. Una aproximación desde la tratadística y la Inquisición
… category we find prophecies, revelations, apparitions, ecstasy, raptures, visions, etc. From a sociocultural point of view, it was a conflictive universe that prepared the way to an intimate religious experience that threatened the leading role of the Church based on the control of divine …
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La monja azul : the political and cultural ramifications of a 17th-century mystical transatlantic journey
This project sets forth a Mexican American cultural studies treatment of a US Southwestern legend known as the Lady in Blue (La monja azul). The legend is derived from17th-century religious memoriales (accounts) that narrate the miraculous apparition of a living cloistered Spanish nun, Sor María …