Rosalia - Brill Reference. [German version] (also Rosaria). The Roman festival of the offering of roses to the dead. The Rosalia were a private parentatio (Parentalia), not a festival of public religion (they appear only in one late Roman calendar, which may not even refer to the traditional Rosalia: Philocalus, InscrIt 13,2 p. 247, for 23 May), but were sometimes celebrated in connection with the ruler cult (24-26 May: IPergamon no. 374). The connection between the Rosalia and the decoration of military standards with roses (R. signorum) is unclear; ritual procedures involving the standards are record… Cite this page Phillips, C. First appeared online: 2006. In 'Seventh Son,' magic again walks the earth. Jeff Bridges is going witch hunting. The Oscar-winning actor plays an aging knight who trains a youngster to help him keep evil at bay in Seventh Son, a fantasy adventure directed by Sergei Bodrov (Prisoner of the Mountains) and slated for release Oct. 18, 2013.
Wearing medieval costumes did wonders for Bridges, who in his six-decade career has explored everything from 19th-century Westerns to the high-tech world of TRON. "By the time you get through getting your clothes and makeup on and getting to the sets," he says, "you're pretty much there back in the Dark Ages. " Based on the young-adult novel The Spook's Apprentice by Joseph Delaney,Seventh Son casts Bridges as Master John Gregory, a "Spook" who imprisoned the evil witch Mother Malkin (Julianne Moore) centuries before. The cast also includes Alicia Vikander (Anna Karenina) as Alice, a relative of Malkin's, and Kit Harington (Game of Thrones) as one of Gregory's apprentices. Hatrack River - The Official Web Site of Orson Scott Card. Chequered - definition of chequered by the Free Online Dictionary.
Parzival: Wolfram von Eschenbach. Wolfram von Eschenbach Parzival (Parsifal) Summary. William Morris, Vision of the Holy Grail, 1890 Acknowledgement: This work has been summarized using the Vintage Books 1961 edition translated by Helen M. Mustard and Charles E. Passage, copyright 1961 (primarily translated from the Karl Lachman German edition revised in 1952 by Eduard Hartl).
Quotations are for the most part taken from that work, as are paraphrases of its commentary. Some of the notes derive from various other sources. Overall Impression: This is a charming and richly convoluted tale from the middle ages, well worth a careful reading. Notes per the Vintage Books edition: The text was written by the Middle High German poet and Minnesinger Wolfram von Eschenbach, who lived c. 1170 - c. 1220 or 1230. Parzival had a greater scope "than that of any medieval literary work except Dante's Divine Comedy", the two being perhaps the noblest literary achievements of the middle ages. The geography of this book is confused (see also specific notes in the summary below). Lore.