Fw: [Elfsea] Re: Challenge
willow Taylor
willowjonbardc at juno.com
Sun Jul 20 13:09:38 PDT 2003
Where do teach your classes?
Willow
On Fri, 18 Jul 2003 18:19:52 -0500 "Morgan Cain \(Ansteorra\)"
<morgancain at earthlink.net> writes:
> > Just out of curiosity how did this Duchess even hear of Judas
> > Macabbee?, was she Jewish by any chance? Just wondering?
>
> Tegwared, Judas Maccabeus was one of the Nine Worthies in their most
> popular
> configuration. These Worthies constituted three trios, one from the
> Ancient
> World, one from the Classical World, and one from the "Modern" (to
> the 14th
> Century) or Christian world. They were well-known to the Christian
> world
> that created them from the mid-14th-Century onwards. So, unless Her
> Grace
> is very early, she would have heard all about the Worthies, Judas
> Maccabeus
> included. It's interesting to study how this bit of Jewish history
> ended up
> in the Catholic bible.
>
> Each Worthy had certain traits that a man was to emulate, and was
> also
> assigned armory (I think four of the nine had their own, the others
> got
> fanciful arms) so that he could be more easily recognized in an
> allegorical
> setting. They were often used as symbols of how man SHOULD behave,
> something like an early Hall of Fame of Chivalry and Comportment.
> Some
> tellers gave each a distinct trait, sometimes they had more than
> one, or the
> traits overlapped. Almost all the Worthies are warriors.
>
> I've done a lecture on the Nine Worthies for several years, ever
> since I
> stumbled across a reference and was fascinated. It usually scores
> as a
> philosophy class.
>
> ---= Morgan
>
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> " One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is
> constantly making
> exciting discoveries." ---= A. A.
> Milne
> "....look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else."
> ---= Tom Stoppard, "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead"
> (1967)
>
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