Βιβλιογράφικα/Bibliographica

Hitler et le Vatican, Peter Goldman ...

2011-10-07T09:13:00.000-07:00

... a déjà fait objet d'une critique, à laquelle je me range:
"Hitler et le Vatican"

Je souligne que les appendices du livre contiennent les projets de thèses condamnées, à savoir: racistes, nazistes, communistes et totalitaires, en divers étapes, non réalisées par souci de garder la bouche critique aussi survivante avec ses ouailles sous le menace plus direct, les catholiques d'Allemagne. Mais condamner ces thèses est une très bonne exercise de fidélité à la morale catholique./HGL

Intriguing, Iran tops last week's visitors here too!

2011-04-06T04:08:00.000-07:00

"Iran 12" - I think this means, Iran has discovered one blogger. Now, how are bloggers accepted in Iran, I wonder?

main index

2009-03-27T07:01:00.000-07:00

Chesterton, Belloc and other English and French Catholics and other mystery writers

2008-11-16T02:26:00.002-08:00

G. K. Chesterton

Works on the web

The Poem of Lepanto

G.K. Speaks - The Enemies of Property :

There is only one thing new that can be done under the sun; and that is to look at the sun. If you attempt it on a blue day in June, you will know why men do not look straight at their ideals. There is only one really startling thing to be done with the ideal, and that is to do it. It is to face the flaming logical fact, and its frightful consequences. Christ knew that it would be a more stunning thunderbolt to fulfil the law than to destroy it. It is true of both the cases I have quoted, and of every case. The pagans had always adored purity: Athena, Artemis, Vesta. It was when the virgin martyrs began defiantly to practice purity that they rent them with wild beasts, and rolled them on red-hot coals. The world had always loved the notion of the poor man uppermost; it can be proved by every legend from Cinderella to Whittington, by every poem from the Magnificat to the Marseillaise. The kings went mad against France not because she idealized this ideal, but because she realized it*. Joseph of Austria and Catherine of Russia quite agreed that the people should rule; what horrified them was that the people did. The French Revolution, therefore, is the type of all true revolutions, because its ideal is as old as the Old Adam, but its fulfilment almost as fresh, as miraculous, and as new as the New Jerusalem.

*Though, let it be added, the people ceased to rule as the King and the Church ceased to be free. Their supreme days were july 14th to 17th in 1789. Their decline began august 4th, same year.

Hilaire Belloc

Can It Be Mended? Part One :

It has been suggested that the auditing of the secret Party Funds might undermine the Party System. To inaugurate such a practice would certainly deal the Party System a heavy blow, but the success would not be final. Side by side with the officially audited Party Fund another secret fund would at once spring up. A drastic penalty might indeed be attached to any such form of secret bribery.

But the law would tend to be a dead letter in the absence of an alert public opinion behind it; for secret bribery, when it has become a national custom, is not so easy to eliminate. Nothing is less easy to prove, since all parties to the crime are concerned in defending it and in hiding it, and no one person can feel himself aggrieved. ...

Sometimes even a person who can feel himself aggrieved is not enough to eliminate national or multinational bad customs, though.

J. H. Cardinal Newman

François-René de Chateaubriand

Chateaubriand sur Wikipédia.:

Chargé en 1804 de représenter la France près de la République du Valais, il apprend l'exécution du duc d'Enghien : il donne immédiatement sa démission et passe dans l'opposition à l'Empire.

Il avait de la conscience!

Other:

Dr. Thursday's Card Catalog

Travel and pilgrimages, food, languages

2008-11-16T02:26:00.001-08:00

Travel, walking, pilgrimages:

These Boots Were Made for Walking
debut du pélérinage, lien au premier jour
Grys photo

Ethnic Food:

Sweden/Denmark:

Köttbullar, Pytt-i-panna, Kroppkakor (småländska), Dillkött (helst lammkött), Strömmingsflundra, Falu korf, Herrgårdsost, Grevé, Kryddost, Prestost, Svarta Sara/Danbo, Samsø-ost, Hafregrynsgröt, Kolbullar

Till Jul:

Vörtbröd, Ost, Skinka, Sill, Sillsalat, Rödkål, Brunkål, Korf, Risgrynsgröt, Äppelris

På ett fik i Malmö:

Baguetter med tonfiskröra eller camembert och skinka eller kyckling och curry. Café au lait evt med mintsmak. Chokladbisqvier eller damm sugare. GB-glace.

Vienna/Frankfurt:

Sauerkraut mit Speck, Kasseler, Schweinbauch, Wienerschnitzel, Frankfurter* mit scharfem Senf, Semmel und Saure Gurken, Knödel, Kartoffelpuffer, Krapfen, Apfelstrudel, Mohnstrudel, Nußstrudel, Sacher Torte (Café Demel), Emmenthaler, Allgäuer, Palatschinken, Kaisersscharrn, Maroni, Italienisches Eis*die mann in Frankfurt Wiener Würste nennt!

PACA/Aquitaine/Pyrénées:

Socca nissarda, fougasse, pissaladière, ratatouille, cassoulet, chèvre, camembert, roquefort, saint-nectaire, frangipan, chausson de pommes, marrons grillés, flan pâtissier

N Spain:

Judias con salchicha, Ensalada Rusa, empanadas, queso galego, queso manchego, flan

Anywhere:

Pasta, pizza, lentils, olives, pepperoni, real yoghurt*, crêpes, frites, mar mite

*French and Spaniards sometimes use the words yaourt and yogur for custard, chocalate mousse, and similar deserts - which i like, but do not apply to all the uses of yoghurt.

Red Wines: Adom Atic, Bourdeaux, Côtes-du-Rhônes, Côtes-du-Ventoux, Oltina, Rioja

White Wines: Katzensprung, Liebfraumilch, Riesling, heurigen Wein (Grinzing!)

Other: Apfelwoin, Vietz, Cidre et poiré

Beers: Leffe, Kriek, Kilkenny, Guinness, Edelweiss, Faxe Fadøl, Spendrups Old Gold, Olt, bière artisanale

and now, a comment on House Blessings at Theophany (hey, Catholics do that too!):Orthodixie

Later link updates:

Sweet 100 (Hey, thanx for including Princess Torte second from top!)

Language links

Hau tu pranownse Inglish (par Mark Rosenfelder - les francophones pourraient en profiter!)

Edible French idioms:

~ Etre tout sucre tout miel
~ Avoir la pêche
~ Marcher sur des oeufs
~ Un déjeuner de soleil
~ Vouloir le beurre et l'argent du beurre

Theology, Pro-life, Christ King, Saints et c

2008-11-16T02:23:00.000-08:00

Atheists & evolutionists:

A Philosophical Premise of 'Naturalism'?:

Naturalism is the philosophy that states that explanations for all phenomena must be in terms of natural causes.

Note: all phenomena, just not some, natural for all, never supernatural. A great negative claim.

Those basic assumptions--a memorable past, a predictable future, and an observable external reality--are the only assumptions made by science (and even the assumption of external reality is rejected by some philosophical idealists). Science makes no other assumptions.

A predictable future? To most of us predictions about tomorrow are qualified by "God willing and weather permitting, i e an admission the future is not really predictable. Surprises do happen.

When it comes to ID and "scientific" explanations of origins, he is very two standards:

The status of Intelligent Design as science has nothing whatsoever to do with its being natural or supernatural. As we have seen, simply being supernatural doesn't disqualify something from scientific study. Intelligent Design is rejected from science simply because there is no verifiable evidence to support it. Most of Intelligent Design theory is purely subjective, saying little more than "it sure looks designed to me."

The origin of the moon, for example, can be studied scientifically because different mechanisms for its origin imply different modern-day properties such as the chemical composition of moon rocks.)

Why not exchange the wording and judgements:

The intelligent design of this, that and third phenomenon can be studied scientifically, because the lack of such implies a chaos which we repeatedly do not observe. The flood and confusion of tongues can be studied scientifically because it implies on the one hand a memory of either event or both and on the other hand a confusion in the details. Which is exactly what we do observe, thank you Mark Isaak! The moon "sure looks as if" its rocks were solidified lava (or whatever be the theory). Which is not a scientific argument.

" There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved." - The Origin of Species, Charles Darwin

In a century as dedicated to grandeur as the XIXth, the C of Wagner and the late Beethoven, that must have been final, must it not?

Proofs of a Conspiracy, by John Robinson: ("Ch II. The Illuminati" - scroll down to page limit 69 to find this passage in context)

...Having made the candidate acquainted with himself, he is apprised that the Order is not a speculative, but an active association, engaged in doing good to others. The knowledge of human character is therefore of all others the most important. This is acquired only by observation, assisted by the instructions of his teacher. Characters in history are proposed to him for observation, and his opinion is required. After this he is directed to look around him, and to notice the conduct of other men; and part of his weekly rescripts must consist of accounts of all interesting occurrences in his neighbourhood, whether of a public or private nature. Cossandey, one of the four Professors, gives a particular account of the instructions relating to this kind of science. "The Novice must be attentive to trifles: For, in frivolous occurrences a man is indolent, and makes no effort to act a part, so that his real character is then acting alone. Nothing will have such influence with the Superiors in promoting the advancement of a candidate as very copious narrations of this kind, because the candidate, if promoted, is to be employed in an active station, and it is from this kind of information only that the Superiors can judge of his fitness. These characteristic anecdotes are not for the instruction of the Superiors, who are men of long experience, and familiar with such occupation. But they inform the Order concerning the talents and proficiency of the young member. Scientific instruction, being connected by system, is soon communicated, and may in general be very completely obtained from the books which are recommended to the Novice, and acquired in the public seminaries of instruction. But knowledge of character is more multifarious and more delicate. For this there is no college, and it must therefore require longer time for its attainment. Besides, this assiduous and long continued study of men, enables the possessor of such knowledge to act with men, and by his knowledge of their character, to influence their conduct. For such reasons this study is continued, and these rescripts are required, during the whole progress through the Order, and attention to them is recommended as the only mean of advancement. Remarks on Physiognomy in these narrations are accounted of considerable value." So far Mr. Cossandey

Am I, are homeless in general, one of the goals of this kind of observation? God help me! Anyway, masonic "observations" of this kind are certainly one source of the false diagnoses that clutter psychiatric hospitals with sane though unhappy inmates.

Saints:

"Sold into a loving marriage" (St Elisabeth of Hungary - also here)
Ste Marina (Margaret)
Sta. Agata

Ung kvinna från Sicilien som tvingades arbeta i en bordell och sedan fick sina bröst avskurna som straff för hennes vägran att förneka sin tro.

St. Peter uppenbarade sig för henne i fängelset och helade henne, men hon dog ändå där.

St. Agata tros ha räddat sin hemstad Catania från Etnas utbrott, liksom jordbävningar och eldsvådor. Hon beskyddar också barnskötare, klockmakare, guldsmeder, vävare, de svältande och dem som har inflammationer eller sjukdomar i brösten.

En av de många vidskepelserna om henne är att om du dricker heligt vatten på hennes dag så blir du inte ormbiten.

I konst ses hon ofta hålla ett fat med sina bröst på, eller hållande en kniv.
Ortodox namsdag: 5/2.

Det var 5/2 1998, på Sta Agathas dag, som skotten i Likenäs räddade mig från att komma in på psyk än en gång utan motstånd och jag i stället kom till häktet i Karlstad.

Tack, Sankta Agatha! Bed för mig!

Ste Matrona de Moscou
Staline, le retour d'une icône. AFP. 2008-12-02. URL:http://news.fr.msn.com/insolite/article.aspx?cp-documentid=11512572. Accessed: 2008-12-02. (Archived by WebCite® at http://www.webcitation.org/5cll3DuZL)

Ste Viviane
Sainte Vivianne. Université de Napierville, 101 esplanade du Grand Marshall, Napierville, Québec, Canada J0J 1L0. 2008-12-02. URL:http://www.udenap.org/personnalites/vivainne_sainte.htm. Accessed: 2008-12-02. (Archived by WebCite® at http://www.webcitation.org/5cllFHnD2)
Sainte-Bibiane. © 1996 - 2003 missa.org Tous droits réservés, Tiré de Vie des Saints: M. l'abbé Caillot éd. Bordas Frères 1864 . 2008-12-02. URL:http://www.missa.org/sbib.html. Accessed: 2008-12-02. (Archived by WebCite® at http://www.webcitation.org/5cllc4r8m)

St Nicholas of Myra

Orthodox and Catholic Saints - in pairs
St Photius the Great	St Thomas Aquinas	Learned.
St Gregory Palamas	St Ignatius of Loyola	Hesychasts.
St Mark of Ephesus	St Marcel Lefebvre (not canonised as yet)	Defying Councils they considered as robber councils.
St Parascheve of Iassi, called Petka	St Therese of Lisieux	Virgins of great innocence and devotion

Charles I of England - Scotland and Ireland, Louis XVI de France, Maximiliano de México, St Nicholas II - Czar and passionbearer, Charles I of Austria and Hungary --- they were beheaded, shot or exiled for being Anglo-Catholic, Roman Catholic, Greek Orthodox, demophile and peaceloving monarchs:

Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette:
Tea at Trianon Louis XVI Pape Pie VI sur martyre de Louis XVI

Czar St Nicholas II with family:
The Royal Martyrs Of Russia

Chouannerie, Cristeros, Carlistas:

Reynald Secher : GRACCHUS BABEUF - La guerre de la Vendée et le système de dépopulation

Synergy/symphonia of State and Church

Orthodox:

Archimandrite Tikhon (Shevkunov):
“The truth, even if bitter, will triumph with time”

Frank Schaeffer:
Why Russia Invaded Georgia: Payback Time From the Orthodox World to the West

This invasion reminds me to ask whether territorial re-expansion is really the best way to regain the greatness of Orthodox Russia, or whether taking a cue from Czar Saint Nikolai II might not be an idea - as well as abolishing some of the Prussian tyrannies introduced after the murder of the Czar family.

Catholic:

Dom Gérard (mémoire éternelle!):
Demain la Chrétienté

& (traduit en anglais)

4 Reasons for Liturgical Beauty (citation en blog)

et pourquoi pas:

Le 4 septembre 1792, les premiers pillages commencèrent à la basilique Saint-Denis, selon les dispositions de la loi qui allait devenir républicaine dix-huit jours plus tard. Le 9, le dernier office des bénédictins dans l'église dont ils avaient été les maîtres pendant onze siècles fut célébré par Dom Verneuil, le père abbé, mitre en tête et crosse au poing. Cela ne manquait pas de courage, ni de panache. Ils chantaient : « Manus tuas, Domine, commendo spritum meum... » Le 14, chassés, menacés de mort, les religieux se dispersèrent sans espoir de retour. La nécropole royale entra en agonie.

On s'attaqua d'abord au toit. La charpente en fut dénudée, livrée aux intempéries, le plomb arraché et stocké dans la nef, en désordre, au milieu des tombeaux. Le 6 août 1793, l'église grouilla soudain de soldats à bonnet rouge, d'ouvriers armés de pics, de masses, de marteaux, de leviers. La foule les encourageait. Par un singulier tour du destin, la première chapelle sur laquelle ils se ruèrent fut celle du roi Dagobert Ier, fondateur de l'abbaye. Sa statue gisante fut anéantie. Certains monuments funéraires furent conservés, notamment ceux des Valois, « pour leur exceptionnelle qualité artistique », selon un décret de la Convention. Avec les autres, brisés à la masse, saccages, on construisit à l'entrée de Franciade, ci-devant Saint-Denis, sur la place d'Armes, une montagne allégorique de ruines au pied de laquelle fut aménagée une grotte à la mémoire de Marat et de Peletier de Saint-Fargeau, promus martyrs de la Révolution. Les têtes sculptées de nos rois, couronne brisée, nez cassé, les yeux crevés, ornaient les piliers et les frontons de la grotte.

En septembre, dans l'abbatiale mutilée, on martela ou on fit sauter au ciseau les derniers attributs de la royauté qui avaient encore échappé à la fureur républicaine, notamment ceux du buffet d'orgue. Périrent aussi les dernières croix des calvaires qui jalonnaient, dans Saint-Denis, l'itinéraire des convois funèbres des rois de France. Enfin, ce fut le tour des cloches. Elles subirent le martyre de la roue, rompues à coups de barre de fer, émettant des plaintes lugubres qui rebondissaient en échos à l'intérieur de la basilique.

Firent leur entrée « ces spoliateurs de tombeaux, ces hommes abominables qui eurent l'idée de violer l'asile des morts et de disperser leurs cendres pour effacer le souvenir du passé ». C'était le 12 octobre 1793.

Au milieu d'une foule surexcitée qui encourageait de la voix et du geste les terrassiers, on commença à creuser aux abords immédiats de la basilique deux fosses carrées de trois mètres de côté et trois mètres de profondeur. La première était destinée à recevoir les ossements des Bourbons, la seconde ceux des Valois et des Capétiens directs, ainsi que les restes des rois des deux premières races, si l'on en retrouvait quelque chose. Non loin de là, dans un baraquement, fut édifiée à la hâte une fonderie où les cercueils de plomb des tyrans se transmuteraient en balles de fusil républicaines. Puis l'on enfonça au bélier les portes des caveaux.

Le premier « tyran » forcé dans son repos éternel fut le bon roi Henri IV. Lorsqu'on eut fait sauter à coups de marteau et de pied-de-biche le lourd couvercle de son cercueil de chêne, puis son cercueil de plomb à la barre à mines, déclenchant dans le caveau des Bourbons un épouvantable vacarme, son corps apparut enveloppé d'un suaire blanc presque intact. On dégagea la tête, et, dans l'air raréfié, se répandit une forte exhalaison d'aromates. Ce roi-là sentait bon. Ce ne fut pas le cas des autres. Après cent quatre-vingt-trois ans de tombeau, son visage était admirablement conservé, la barbe presque blanche, les traits sereins, à peine altérés. Le cadavre fut ainsi dressé, comme un mannequin, et adossé à un pilier. La foule qui l'entoure, impressionnée, suspend un instant sa haine. Peut-être même est-elle émue au spectacle de ce grand roi debout, immobile dans son linceul. Et si elle tombait à genoux, en témoignage d'ancien respect? Mais la loi qui régit les masses humaines ne souffre pas d'exception, c'est toujours le plus vil qui l'emporte, et le, plus vil, le voici : un soldat, même pas pris de boisson, ce qui eût au moins constitué une excuse. Se poussant au premier rang, avec des mines de matamore, le soldat, courageux fils du peuple, tire son sabre et coupe ras une bonne mèche de barbe blanche dont il se fait une moustache postiche sous les rites et les applaudissements. Voilà, c'est décidé, la foule sera abjecte. Une mégère brandit le poing sous le nez du bon roi Henri, et puis, carrément, le gifle à toute volée, si fort que le corps tombe à terre. C'était le samedi 12 octobre 1793 et le jour tombait. Les forceurs de tombeaux rentrèrent chez eux pour se reposer le dimanche en famille, observant une pause déjà syndicale, si bien que le roi Henri IV demeura ainsi exposé aux outrages de la populace jusqu'au lundi 14 octobre. On ignore dans quel état il fut retrouvé, car il fut balancé sans ménagements, dès le matin, et le premier, dans la fosse des Bourbons.

Passé ce premier défoulement, on accéléra le boulot. Louis XIII fut expédié dans la fosse sans même l'aumône d'une injure. Il puait. Avec Louis XIV, on respecta les formes républicaines. L'un des terrassiers, autre courageux fils du peuple, sortit son couteau à longue lame, et, d'un coup vif, éventra le roi. Il s'en échappa quantité d'étoupes qui remplaçaient les entrailles et soutenaient les chairs. Estimant sans doute, à bon droit, qu'il avait été trompé sur la réalité charnelle de la dépouille royale aussi inerte qu'une poupée de son, l'éventreur, avec son couteau, ouvrit en force la bouche du roi dont les mâchoires étaient bloquées depuis soixante-dix-huit longues années. Rude besogne. Il en vint à bout, saluant comme un gladiateur, et la multitude l'acclama. Le roi Louis XIV, qui, de son vivant, puait effroyablement de la bouche, exhala un ultime soupir qui extermina les dernières mouches qui survivaient dans le caveau. Le fils du peuple préleva sur la mâchoire royale une dent, solitaire, un chicot noir et pourri qu'il montra au peuple, comme un trophée. Le peuple applaudit et rugit de bonheur.
« Monseigneur, mes frères, dit-il, le droit divin est un flux qui échappe au pouvoir des hommes. Il est éternellement transmissible chez ceux que Dieu a choisis. Il ne peut être interrompu, il ne l'a jamais été et ne le sera jamais. On peut couper la tête des rois, les chasser, les oublier, le droit divin court toujours, comme une grâce inemployée dont les effets s'accumulent. Mais vous êtes aussi un être de chair, Monseigneur. La royauté héréditaire commence là où commence l'homme, par la conception charnelle. Un roi est fait d'un autre roi, de toute la chaîne des rois avant lui, parmi lesquels celui qui repose ici depuis neuf siècles. Ainsi le corps du roi est-il le roi. A Reims, il recevait neuf orictions, et sa personne devenait sacrée. Allez à Reims, Monseigneur, et que Dieu vous ouvre la route. Amen.

La messe suivit son cours. L'abbé trouva marqués d'avance par des signets de couleur vive, d'une soie neuve qui avait été changée récemment, dans le missel, les textes propres aux oraisons pour le roi. D'une voix forte, il lut le premier, la collecte, qui se place juste avant l'épître : « Quaesumus, omnipotens Deus : ut famulus tuus Pharamonus, rex noster, qui tua misera-tione suscepit regni gubernacula... Faites, Dieu Tout-Puissant, que votre serviteur notre roi Pharamond, qui par votre grâce a assumé le gouvernement du royaume, reçoive un accroissement de toutes les vertus ; qu'orné de leur éclat, il évite l'horreur du vice et puisse parvenir heureusement jusqu'à vous qui êtes la voie, la vérité et la vie. Par Nôtre-Seigneur Jésus-Christ, votre Fils... Per Dominum nostrum Jesum Christum Filium tuum, qui tecum vivit et régnât in saecula saeculorum, amen. »

Les deux autres textes étaient ceux de la secrète et de la postcommunion, l'un avant la préface et l'autre à la fin de la messe, précédant la bénédiction. Tous deux en appelaient à la grâce de Dieu « répandue sur notre roi Pharamond afin qu'elle le protège contre toutes les forces adverses, etc. ». L'abbé ne s'était jamais trouvé face à ces textes-là, enfouis depuis des éternités parmi d'autres oraisons pour la pluie ou le beau temps ou contre les tremblements de terre et les épidémies chez les animaux, entre les pages désaffectées de missels obsolètes mis au rebut par des générations d'évêques acharnés. Il éprouva un vif bonheur à redécouvrir mot à mot ces textes. On avait tout rejeté en bloc, pourquoi ne pas tout reprendre de la même façon ? Pourquoi les gens de ce pays ne demanderaient-ils pas à Dieu, comme naguère, de bénir leurs maisons, leurs bateaux, leurs chevaux, leurs chiens, leurs autos, leurs enfants, leurs femmes enceintes, leurs malades, leurs vieillards, leurs drapeaux, de guérir leurs cochons malades, d'épargner la grêle aux moissons, de protéger leurs forêts des incendies, et à plus forte raison de leur donner à nouveau un roi qui pût être aimé et respecté et rendrait un sens à l'ordre des choses...
Jean Raspail, Sire, 1991, extrait sur son site officiel

First millennium:

Testament de St Rémy

Middle Ages

2008-11-15T01:37:00.000-08:00

mediaeval online resources:

Boethius: Consolation of Philosophy, Latin and English, See also Catholic Encyclopedia: Boethius

Prudentius: Psychomachia,

Internet Medieval Source Book

Constantines laws for Christians...

Nennius: Historia Brittonum, 8th century, full text

Asser: Life of Alfred

Bede (673-735) He wrote The Life and Miracles of St Cuthbert, Bishop of Lindisfarne. However, his most famous work is the Ecclesiastical History of the English Nation, a chronicle of English history from the Roman occupation until the date of its completion in 731.

Anglosaxon chronicle

Aquinas: Summa Theologiae in English; S Thomas Aquinas latine

Chaucer: Teach yourself Chaucer

Sparknotes on mediæval authors:

Anon. :Beowulf

Chaucer:Canterbury Tales

modern time writings on (such as deserve being read and believed):

Getting to Know the Middle Ages (warning against its briefly vented bias against Anglo-Saxon England!) GKC

Mediaeval Technology and Colonial America

Pour en finir avec le Moyen Age Régine Pernoud

TFP Recommends/Books:
Inventing the Flat Earth Jeffery Burton Russell

Glenrathlin and Drotthemshirden are for fun,

and so is Medeltidsveckan

The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood is by Howard Pyle

own writings:

To stop a journey=to mend a day, new link: To stop a journey=to mend a day

Blanda badvatten ..., new link: Blanda badvatten ...

Celticism

2008-11-15T01:36:00.000-08:00

BY GEORGE MACDONALD:
ST. GEORGE AND ST. MICHAEL
WHAT'S MINE'S MINE
Far Above Rubies

Irish humour:
What the Irish believes in Taiwan

Music Theory: de la Motte, Schenker, Budday ...

2008-11-15T01:17:00.000-08:00

Dieter de la Motte
Harmonielehre

ISBN 3423041838

Publisher: Gemeinsame Ausgabe dtv/Bärenreiter, 1976Taschenbuch Rückseite:1600 -1730 -1790 - 1810 - 1840 - 1860 - 1880 - 1910 - 1930

Neun unterschiedliche musikgeschichtliche Situationen und ihre Harmoniegespräche
Spezielle Praktiken der Opernkomposition
Die wichtigsten Praktiken des 20. Jahrhunderts
Ein analysebetonter Lehrgang mit vielen Musikbeispielen
Gewidmet:Den Pfälzer Weinen,
insbesondere dem Rhodter und Schweigener,
in tiefer Ergebenheit

Zustand des Buches:Sehr gut erhalten, wenige Anstreichungen und Eintragungen, Schnitt vergilbt, Seiten ...

Felix Salzer

Structural Hearing: Tonal Coherence in Music (Two Volumes Bound As One) (Paperback)
by Felix Salzer (Author)

Product Details
Paperback: 667 pages
Publisher: Dover Publications (June 1, 1962)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0486222756
ISBN-13: 978-0486222752
Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.2 x 1.5 inches

Wolfgang Budday

Grundlagen Musikalischer Formen Der Wiener Klassik: An Hand Der Zeitgenossischen Theorie Von Joseph Riepel Und Heinrich Christoph Koch Dargestellt an Menuetten Und Sonatensatzen (1750-1790) by Wolfgang Budday Hardcover, Barenreiter, ISBN 3761807120 (3-7618-0712-0)

Heinrich Schenker (aeiou biographical article)
Schenker Guide

On peut ajouter Ralph Kirkpatrick: Domenico Scarlatti chapitre XI, "Anatomie d'une sonate de Scarlatti", les pages 277 à 302 dans l'édition qui se trouve à la Méjanes.

Avant de lire ça, j'appelais Sonatine ce que n'a qu'un mouvement. Comme je le fais encore pour les sonatines de guitarre.

Charles Rosen ... Sonata Forms
Rudolf Reti ... The Thematic Process in Music

Beginning to explore:
http://www.bouzouki-musik.de/
miguel bengoa flamenco
MusicNovatory (not a fav, as yet)

Music to listen to:
Inside the Careenium (blog)

Northernness

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Alfred's Grammar book : How to Use This Grammar Book

Alfred's song :

"When God put man in a garden
He girt him with a sword,
And sent him forth a free knight
That might betray his lord;

"He brake Him and betrayed Him,
And fast and far he fell,
Till you and I may stretch our necks
And burn our beards in hell.

"But though I lie on the floor of the world,
With the seven sins for rods,
I would rather fall with Adam
Than rise with all your gods.

"What have the strong gods given?
Where have the glad gods led?
When Guthrum sits on a hero's throne
And asks if he is dead?

"Sirs, I am but a nameless man,
A rhymester without home,
Yet since I come of the Wessex clay
And carry the cross of Rome,

"I will even answer the mighty earl
That asked of Wessex men
Why they be meek and monkish folk,
And bow to the White Lord's broken yoke;
What sign have we save blood and smoke?
Here is my answer then.

"That on you is fallen the shadow,
And not upon the Name;
That though we scatter and though we fly,
And you hang over us like the sky,
You are more tired of victory,
Than we are tired of shame.

"That though you hunt the Christian man
Like a hare on the hill-side,
The hare has still more heart to run
Than you have heart to ride.

"That though all lances split on you,
All swords be heaved in vain,
We have more lust again to lose
Than you to win again.

"Your lord sits high in the saddle,
A broken-hearted king,
But our king Alfred, lost from fame,
Fallen among foes or bonds of shame,
In I know not what mean trade or name,
Has still some song to sing;

"Our monks go robed in rain and snow,
But the heart of flame therein,
But you go clothed in feasts and flames,
When all is ice within;

"Nor shall all iron dooms make dumb
Men wondering ceaselessly,
If it be not better to fast for joy
Than feast for misery.

"Nor monkish order only
Slides down, as field to fen,
All things achieved and chosen pass,
As the White Horse fades in the grass,
No work of Christian men.

"Ere the sad gods that made your gods
Saw their sad sunrise pass,
The White Horse of the White Horse Vale,
That you have left to darken and fail,
Was cut out of the grass.

"Therefore your end is on you,
Is on you and your kings,
Not for a fire in Ely fen,
Not that your gods are nine or ten,
But because it is only Christian men
Guard even heathen things.

"For our God hath blessed creation,
Calling it good. I know
What spirit with whom you blindly band
Hath blessed destruction with his hand;
Yet by God's death the stars shall stand
And the small apples grow."

From The Ballad of the White Horse,
by Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Völsunga saga - Icelandic, English, German, Swedish, from the site: Sagnanet: Mediæval Icelandic Literature Icelandic and English

Saxo Grammaticus: Gesta Danorum Catholic Encyclopedia > S > Saxo Grammaticus

ÖSTGÖTALAGEN MED FÖRKLARINGAR, utgifven af A. O. Freudenthal, 1895

Bonaventuras betraktelser öfver Christi lefverne, utgifna af G. E. Klemming, 1860

Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom

Hans Christian Andersen English and Danish

Astrid Lindgren In English

William Morris

2008-11-15T01:01:00.000-08:00

Morris society
Poetry

blog inspired by his works:
The Earthly Paradise

Karl May

2008-11-15T01:00:00.000-08:00

Karl-May-Gesellschaft e. V. : Werkeverzeichnis

Karl-May-Magazin

Lloyd Alexander & generally Philadelphia & France aussi

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LLOYD ALEXANDER
biographies: Alexander, Lloyd

Lloyd Chudley Alexander, mémoire éternelle new link

Other Phillies:

The Concrete Sojourn

Other U.S. authors:

Pollyanna

Autres résidents français:

Athalie de Racine

C S Lewis

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Into the Wardrobe :: a C. S. Lewis web site
Chronicles of Narnia Website
Kingship in the Work of the Inklings
Filipino Order of Narnians

He loved Sohrab and Rustum by Matthew Arnold after a passage from Ferdowzi's Epic of Kings, the Iliad by Homer and knew Plato's Timaeus quite well, being familiar with the Greek language of the originals: he refused to consider G K Chesterton superficial but regarded Belloc as a bad influence on him. In particular he found The Ballad of the White Horse a valid presentation of military hope against hope.

Sparknotes on Narnia Series:

The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe

All other Narnia books, so far, missing from spark notes. So is the Space Trilogy. So are The Screwtape Letters. Till We Have Faces - ditto. The Great Divorce, The Pilgrim's Regress - need I bother to look?

Old Solar, Surnibur, language of Pfifltriggi

Speaking of Narnia and Arkenland - did you know that one hero was named for an Amerindian tribe? Shasta gives his/their version of flood. - the function that automatically scrolls down to Shasta version is right now off, but enjoy the others!

Own on C. S. L.:

Narnian philological problems

J R R Tolkien related

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external links:

J R R Tolkien & Donald Swann - Poems & Songs of Middle Earth LP
Tolkiens Arda

The Grey Havens

Ardalambion - site by Helge Fauskanger, descriptions and discussions of several of Tolkien's languages, main page

Kingship in the Work of the Inklings

J.R.R Tolkein - TradCat - The great writer of Fantasy literature, loved by Christians and non-Christians alike, was also a Traditionalist-Catholic Monarchist.

Law and Institutions in the Shire - William H. Stoddard

TolkienWiki: FrontPage
Tolkien Library site - this page JRRT is writing as philologist

Sparknotes on Tolkien works:

The Hobbit

The Fellowship of the Ring
The Two Towers
The Return of the King

my own fanfic and essays:

Dùnadan's Vigil repl. by link Dúnadan's Vigil

Milk and Gollum repl. by link Milk and Gollum, and Nostratic M-L-Q

Language adjectives/nouns in in(wa) not saved in time ...

Is Boromir a mimsy borogove?

quotes:
Tolkien writes on a Lourdes miracle.

And the most moving story of the little boy with tubercular peritonitis who had not been healed, and was taken sadly away in the train by his parents, practically dying with two nurses attending him. As the train moved away it passed within the sight of the Grotto. The little boy sat up. "I want to go and talk to the little girl" - in the same train there was a girl who had been healed. And he got up and played with the little girl; and then he came back, and he said "I'm hungry now". And they gave him cake and two bowls of chocolate and enormous potted meat sandwiches, and he ate them! (This was in 1927). So Our Lord told them to give the little daughter of Jairus something to eat. So plain and matter of fact: for so miracles are.

from his letter 89
Letters, pp 99 - 100