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101Courtly love — God Speed! by Edmund Blair Leighton, 1900: a late Victorian view of a lady giving a favor to a knight about to do battle Courtly love was a medieval European conception of nobly and chivalrously expressing love and admiration.[1] Generally,… …
102Philo — (20 BC 50 AD), known also as Philo of Alexandria (gr. Φίλων ὁ Ἀλεξανδρεύς), Philo Judaeus, Philo Judaeus of Alexandria, Yedidia and Philo the Jew, was a Hellenistic Jewish philosopher born in Alexandria, Egypt. Philo used allegory to fuse and… …
103Medieval literature — History of Literature Bronze Age literature Sumerian Egyptian Akkadian Classical literatures …
104Painting — For other uses, see Painting (disambiguation). The Mona Lisa, by Italian painter Leonardo da Vinci, is one of the most recognizable artistic paintings in the world. Painting is the practice of applying paint, pig …
105biblical literature — Introduction four bodies of written works: the Old Testament writings according to the Hebrew canon; intertestamental works, including the Old Testament Apocrypha; the New Testament writings; and the New Testament Apocrypha. The Old… …
106Parables — • A comparison, or a parallel, by which one thing is used to illustrate another. Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Parables Parables …
107Watership Down — For other uses, see Watership Down (disambiguation). Watership Down   …
108Platonic epistemology — holds that knowledge is innate, so that learning is the development of ideas buried deep in the soul, often under the mid wife like guidance of an interrogator. Plato believed that each soul existed before birth with The Form of the Good and a… …
109A Tale of a Tub — was the first major work written by Jonathan Swift, composed between 1694 and 1697 and published in 1704. It is arguably his most difficult satire, and perhaps his most masterly. The Tale is a prose parody which is divided into sections of… …
110Marianne — This article is about the symbol of France. For other uses, see Marianne (disambiguation). The Statue of Republic by Léopold Morice (1883) on the Place de la République, Paris. Marianne is a national emblem of France and an allegory of Liberty… …
