神话、传说与历史

本文旨在探讨神话、传说与历史的关系。为此,文章重新启用和评价了爱德华·泰勒关于神话传说属于"原始文化"的概念,从而在理论上找到了由神话传说到历史的通道,因为在此概念下神话传说无论以何种形态出现都包含了构建史前史的要素。为了借鉴这些历史因素,作者尝试性地提出了一种考察和解释神话传说的模式,即以"信史"或"真实的历史"为出发点,以信实性为衡量标准,将世界各主要文明的神话传说分成若干层次。作者认为,由于各种神话传说所包含的历史真实因素具有不同的层次和特点,因此必须综合借鉴社会学、人类学、古文字学、考古学、天文学等多种理论和方法,才能对形态各异的神话传说进行有利于历史研究的考察。     

普罗夫迪夫 音乐的不老传说

普罗夫迪夫,是欧洲最古老的城市之一,什么罗马、雅典和君士坦丁堡,都只是它的后辈。我们一直在想,那些生活在老建筑里的人们,会有什么样的生活,偷得浮生半日闲,在时间齿轮的缝隙中,乃一声就流逝了。时间的力量,无疑是强大的,强大得足以让这座6000年的小城,翻天覆地,然后,又会有一些不动声色,固执地延续了下来。     

胡杨 传说中的信仰

<正>胡杨,沙漠,荒原,孤烟,落日,黄羊。沧海桑田,当曾经的古海成为如今的西部荒原,苍凉成为主色调。尽管这是个传说——"生而一千年不死,死后一千年不倒,倒了一千年不朽"——但却让很多人坚信不疑。在一片茫茫中,能坚守住信仰的,才能成为英雄。1生活的神奇,在于多彩。蓝天白云、红叶褐干,远离霓虹和尘嚣,去荒原朝圣,不再膜拜铜臭,向荒原的守护者们深深鞠躬,心里的污浊一扫而空。2这胡杨,像极了中国的农民,在贫瘠中自得其乐,在匮乏中默默耕耘。如果你不接近他们,他们总是不起眼的,但靠近之后,你会惊叹他们的伟大!伊甸园的欢乐是无人能拒的。每个人有每个人的伊甸园,他们甘愿于此。     

翰海春拍力推市场蓝筹——写实画派与学院艺术演绎独有景观

自2003年下半年开始,中国书画和接续至今的当代艺术的相继飙升助推了整个市场大盘的增量和结构性提升,在天价和流拍带动的涨跌舞蹈中,很多的收藏者和投资者被牢牢的栓在了前卫艺术的热门板块上体验惊风骇浪,     

马太夫人的传记和传说

近日翻阅明初敕封的鲁土司家谱,在第三卷的《内传》部分载有第一代鲁土司脱欢的元配马太夫人传记,觉得很有历史价值。由此,我联想起了在青海、甘肃土族地区流传的有关马太夫人的种种神奇传说,遂撰成此文。马太夫人传记始祖都督欢公(即第一代鲁土司脱欢)元配马氏,赠夫人,是曰马太夫人。今兰州西丰里土民马家,即太夫人故族也。太夫人忠诚直干,善区划,有丈夫风。洪武十一年,达官戳只与其弟叛,会,实笃(脱欢长子,又译为什都,第二代鲁土司)幼嗣,贼勇悍绝伦,善骑射。每较艺,射左中左,射右中右,人咸惮之。据西凉萝葡山为寇,杀害赵内使等(明朝派往西…     

The Norman Conquest of the classical past: William of Poitiers,language and history

William of Poitiers' Gesta Guillelmi, written shortly after the Norman Conquest of England, remains surprisingly neglected, especially by historians. He is generally regarded primarily as a classical stylist who employed classical references to decorate his panegyric of William of Normandy. Poitiers' use of classical allusion was, however, far from superficial. In arguing for William’s legitimacy as king of England, Poitiers addresses a wider audience than is generally acknowledged, and appeals directly to the fears, expectations and values of his day. The article examines his three most sustained allusions to classical heroes of naval enterprises and conquest – Caesar, Aeneas and Theseus – as key components of the memory of the Norman Conquest, demonstrating that each allusion makes a specific moral and political point. Poitiers is a case study for medieval authorial ingenuity in applying classicism to the problems of the present.     

The Fordwich Stone and its Legend

Abstract

The ubiquitous use of the Latin word ‘sedilia’ to refer to the ritual seats to the south of an altar for the use of the celebrant priest and his assistants has led to the notion that it is an authentic medieval term. This paper shows the results of a survey of documentary references to seats of all kinds in medieval England, and demonstrates that in the medieval period the word sedilia was of no especial distinction, meaning merely ‘bench’, only gaining its current meaning in the late 18th century. The word was used along with a variety of others to refer to now lost seating in medieval churches, including benches and individual chairs in the chancel as well as seating in the nave. This piece will make some suggestions for the distinctions made in the terminology in medieval documents regarding the different types of seating in churches. To avoid confusion, the word ‘sedilia’ is italicised when it refers to medieval use of the Latin word, but not when it refers to the modern definition.     

风雨碉楼

"卖猪仔"的淘金路 开平地处珠江三角洲西南部的低山丘陵地带,这里水网交错,气候温和.放眼望去,广袤的田野上一座座欧洲古典建筑风格的小楼,与中国南方农村的传统土屋交错在一起,成了中国绝无仅有的乡间景色.     

藏医药传奇

藏药业是西藏五明文化中的优秀传统文化,已被国家认定为西藏的非物质文化遗产。藏医理论孕生藏药产业的历史与文化轨迹辉煌的医史,令人掩卷概叹。藏药学与藏医术,共同承载着悠远博大的藏族医药文化,驶向未来。当16岁的文成公主满怀欣喜地捧着从山上采到的石榴花,将花与根皮捣烂后敷在松赞干布肿胀的小腿上,像是一个奇迹,松赞干布的腿肿消退,高热亦退散,完全康复。