WWWBoard/LT

Renaissance Forum   Humanities & Classics 1002

[ HOME] [ POST ] [ SEARCH ] [ HELP ]

In Reply to: PLEASE POST YOU FIRST REQUIRED POSTING AS A REPLY TO THIS posted by TOM BACIG on December 13, 1998 at 19:30:06:

“Our Lord saith that the kingdom of Heaven is within you. Turn thyself to God with all thine heart and forsake this wretched world and thy soul shall find rest.” These lines at the very beginning of Thomas a Kempis’s “Imitation of Christ”, exhibit the foundation of medieval faith. The men who lived in monasteries, submitting their lives to God lived only for the trust that lie between themselves and God. They gave up their possessions for a life of simplicity, owning almost nothing more than the clothes on their backs. They also broke the bonds of distractions and “outward” things that may have led to wickedness. The gift of this submission was a guarantee of a future in heaven.

However, in “Oration on the Dignity of Man”, written by Pico della Mirandola, a whole different view of life with God is established. God created everything at first as seeds to grow and become whatever they wish. “The nature of all other things is limited and constrained within the bounds of laws prescribed by me: thou, coerced by no necessity, shalt ordain for thyself the limits of thy nature in accordance with thine own free will, ...” According to Gloria
Fiero in “The Humanistic Tradition,”, the Renaissance was the time of expressing individualism and the greatness of human beings.

Both medieval and renaissance views are evident in the movie, “ The Name of the Rose”. The elders of the monastery are believers of the medieval faith had learned that there was only one way to get to heaven. This way was living in a monastery, being subject to rules, and leaving everything else behind. The renaissance view broke away from such limits. These differences can easily be characterized by the problems of new approaches and tradition. The elders were
taught out of tradition to read and accept the works of the Lord. Monks were prohibited from analyzing or questioning them. William of Baskerville is just one example of a this difference. Unlike the others, he did not just accept the fact that the devil was behind the events in the monastery. Against the “proper” acceptance, he went beyond and proceed his own theory even after the GreatInquisitor had made judgement.

Follow Ups:

POST FOLLOWUP

NAME:
E-MAIL:
SUBJECT:

RESPONSE:
: “Our Lord saith that the kingdom of Heaven is within you. Turn thyself to God with all thine heart and forsake this wretched world and thy soul shall find rest.” These lines at the very beginning of Thomas a Kempis’s “Imitation of Christ”, exhibit the foundation of medieval faith. The men who lived in monasteries, submitting their lives to God lived only for the trust that lie between themselves and God. They gave up their possessions for a life of simplicity, owning almost nothing more than the clothes on their backs. They also broke the bonds of distractions and “outward” things that may have led to wickedness. The gift of this submission was a guarantee of a future in heaven. : However, in “Oration on the Dignity of Man”, written by Pico della Mirandola, a whole different view of life with God is established. God created everything at first as seeds to grow and become whatever they wish. “The nature of all other things is limited and constrained within the bounds of laws prescribed by me: thou, coerced by no necessity, shalt ordain for thyself the limits of thy nature in accordance with thine own free will, ...” According to Gloria : Fiero in “The Humanistic Tradition,”, the Renaissance was the time of expressing individualism and the greatness of human beings. : Both medieval and renaissance views are evident in the movie, “ The Name of the Rose”. The elders of the monastery are believers of the medieval faith had learned that there was only one way to get to heaven. This way was living in a monastery, being subject to rules, and leaving everything else behind. The renaissance view broke away from such limits. These differences can easily be characterized by the problems of new approaches and tradition. The elders were : taught out of tradition to read and accept the works of the Lord. Monks were prohibited from analyzing or questioning them. William of Baskerville is just one example of a this difference. Unlike the others, he did not just accept the fact that the devil was behind the events in the monastery. Against the “proper” acceptance, he went beyond and proceed his own theory even after the GreatInquisitor had made judgement. :

LINK URL:
LINK TITLE:
IMAGE URL:

---

[ HOME] [ POST ] [ SEARCH ] [ HELP ]

---

[ FOLLOW UPS ] [ POST FOLLOWUP ]

---

 

v 1.1 is made possbile by:

Original WWWBoard design and code by Matt Wright.  See the original at Matt's Script Acrhive. WWWBoard v2.0a © 1998 Matt Wright. WWWBoard/LT Upgrade by Lion Templin of Leonine Computational Resources.  © 1998 Lion Templin. Tom Bacig, University of Minnesota, Duluth.  © 1998 Tom Bacig.