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Arabisation, Christianity, Corneille's Cid, El Cantar de Mio Cid, La Chanson de Roland, Orlando Furioso, the Coptic Church, the Crusades
St. George Church in Tanta, Egypt, after a suicide bombing on April 9th.
Credit PHOTOGRAPH BY NARIMAN EL-MOFTY / AP
War, Terrorism, and the Christian Exodus from the Middle East, The New Yorker
by Robin Wright (15 April 2017)
Please click on the title to read Robin Wright’s article.
Le Roman de Renart is a mock-epic. It is the underside of the chansons de geste and courtly love. This post excludes courtly literature to concentrate on France’s first and most important chanson de geste, the anonymous Chanson de Roland. Roland, King Charlemagne‘s nephew, and his twelve Paladins were defeated at the Battle of Roncevaux (778). Roland died.
It has been said that the Chanson de Roland is now forgotten. The Internet tells another story. It is still the subject matter of masterpieces of European literature. As we saw in my last post, Roland is Ludovico Ariosto‘s masterpiece Orlando Furioso. The Chanson de Roland may at times have been put aside, but Orlando Furioso has endured and inspired several authors down to this very day. Wikipedia’s entry on Orlando Furioso is a who’s who chronicling the arabisation of North Africa and the decline of Eastern Christianity rooted in the Fall of Constantinople to the Seljuq Turks on 29 May 1453.
The Millet protected Christians under Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II, called the Conqueror, but Anatolia was not a Muslim country before the fall of Constantinople. The Ottoman Empire was defeated during World War I and dissolved under the terms of the Treaty of Sèvres.
Ruggiero rescuing Angelica by Gustave Doré (Wikipedia)
A battle of the Reconquista from the Cantigas de Santa Maria (Wikipedia)
El Cantar de Mio Cid is a celebration of the Reconquista. The Moors were in the Iberian Peninsula from 711 until 1492. In literature, el Cid is also Pierre Corneille’s Le Cid (1936). The play was produced shortly after Richelieu founded the Académie-Française. Le Cid, a very successful play, created the first querelle. It violated the rule of the three unities: time (24 hours), action (minimum) and place (single). Rodrigue, Le Cid, succeeds in pushing back thousands of Moors.
The Crusades are the backdrop to Le Roman de Renart. Crusaders aimed to recover the Holy Land from Islamic Rule. (See Crusades, Wikipedia.) Renart talks himself out of a death sentence by claiming he must go to the Near East and expiate before he is put to death.
According to The New Yorker‘s Robin Wright, Christians are leaving the Near East. The Coptic Church was founded in 42 CE (Christian era).
Love to everyone ♥
A battle of the Second Crusade (illustration of William of Tyre‘s Histoire d’Outremer, 1337 (Wikipedia)
Sources and Resources
- Orlando Furioso is a Gutenberg publication [EBook #615] EN
- Chanson de Roland / Song of Roland [EBook #391] EN
- El Cantar de Mio Cid pdf SP
Cantigas de Santa Maria
Cantiga 10 “Rosa des Rosas”
Performers: Malandança (Unha noite na corte do rei Alfonso X)
Cantigas de Santa Maria (Wikipedia)
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24 April 2017
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Sad. It’s like humanity is moving backwards.
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David, it is so sad. Humanity is moving backwards. Best.
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Thanks very much for this, Micheline. Although your excellent video has loaded, the other illustrations have not (here, anyway). Copyright perhaps?
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I will have to look at this Derrick. There are times when videos are removed. Thank you Derrick.
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I looked. The video works, but I failed to indicate that the link to Robin Wright’s article was at the very top.
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I thank you once again for re-blogging my post. Conquests can lead to abuse. Canada has accepted thousands of refugees whose religion they respect. They are protected under our Bill of Rights. However, Canada prohibits violations of the United Nations Human Rights Declaration and it has abolished the death penalty. This we must make very clear. Most of our Syrian refugees (they include Iraqis and Afghans) are Muslims, but some are not. We have taken in Yazidis because ISIL was destroying them. Best, Micheline
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Yes Micheline…I understand…but doesn’t family come first…aren’t the slaughtered Christians brothers, sisters and their whole slaughtered families, priests and churches mean more than the people whose ideologies slaughters them? No human right is above the right to live free of agression, fear, dispair disease and so called “holly wars” in any form covert, overt, with fire, war heads, or by suicidal bombers? Nothing has changed in the allahist ideology since the fall of Constantinople, when the turks destroying the jewel of Christianity, galloped into it on horse made it…Hagia Sofia!
That is the stern reality, the only reality and the truth…there is no reason to explain the lack of sight of our leaders to the reality that our civilization’s very existence is at risk of being extinguished!
Thanks a lot!
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Christ’s only message was unconditional love. Unconditional love allows people from different backgrounds to live together as brothers and sisters. Christianity was born in the Near to Middle East and it is estimated that, by 2020, all will have left. Armenians were the victims of pan-Islamism and, a hundred years later, Coptic Christians were killed by ISIL. They fell to the same ideology. Thank you.
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Self-defeating prophecies are the end of civilization of civilized people, and the take over by the barbaric rule of the under civilized, undemocratic and never content with power over other people soul and live of the pacifist civilization: There is a time to indulge…and a time to think and act Critically!
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Thank you, Merci 🙂
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