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The original Mother's Day (hint: it's not from Hallmark)

Mon, 12 May 2008 06:00:26 GMT

clipped by: enbar
clipper's remarks: Julia Ward Howe, who wrote the Battle Hymn of the Republic, was one of the early advocates for a national Mother's Day holiday, as an antiwar organizing effort. Here's her "Mother's Day Proclamation" from 1870.

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Women's History

Mother's Day Proclamation - 1870

by Julia Ward Howe

Arise then...women of this day!
Arise, all women who have hearts!
Whether your baptism be of water or of tears!
Say firmly:
"We will not have questions answered by irrelevant agencies,
Our husbands will not come to us, reeking with carnage,
For caresses and applause.
Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn
All that we have been able to teach them of charity, mercy and patience.
We, the women of one country,
Will be too tender of those of another country

To allow our sons to be trained to injure theirs."

From the voice of a devastated Earth a voice goes up with
Our own. It says: "Disarm! Disarm!
The sword of murder is not the balance of justice."
Blood does not wipe our dishonor,
Nor violence indicate possession.
As men have often forsaken the plough and the anvil
At the summons of war,
Let women now leave all that may be left of home
For a great and earnest day of counsel.

Tags: gender, history, women, peace, war, primary_source, america

Three of my favorite second-century martyrs: Polycarp, Ignatius, Perpetua

Mon, 18 Feb 2008 23:45:46 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Here's what I'm having students read this week, just in case you're wondering what a true tenured radical does.

Clip Source: www.newadvent.org

The Martyrdom of Polycarp

And as the flame blazed forth in great fury, we, to whom it was given to witness it, beheld a great miracle, and have been preserved that we might report to others what then took place. For the fire, shaping itself into the form of an arch, like the sail of a ship when filled with the wind, encompassed as by a circle the body of the martyr. And he appeared within not like flesh which is burnt, but as bread that is baked, or as gold and silver glowing in a furnace.

Clip Source: www.newadvent.org

The Epistle of Ignatius to the Romans

Suffer me to become food for the wild beasts, through whose instrumentality it will be granted me to attain to God. I am the wheat of God, and let me be ground by the teeth of the wild beasts, that I may be found the pure bread of Christ.

Clip Source: www.fordham.edu

Medieval Sourcebook:
St.Perpetua: The Passion of Saints Perpetua and Felicity 203

And I awoke; and I understood that I should fight, not with beasts but against the devil; but I knew that mine was the victory.

Tags: religion, christianity, history, primary_source, violence, post:twitter, post:facebook(clip)

Saint Augustine on the meaning of Christian love

Sun, 20 Jan 2008 22:46:51 GMT

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clipper's remarks: One of St Augustine's wonderfully humane moments: "Love your brother, and feel yourself assured."

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“ Ask each several man; let him tell you if he love God. He cries out, he confesses: I love, God knows. There is another question to be asked. “If any man say, I love God, and hates his brother, he is a liar.” By what do you prove that he is a liar? Hear. “For he that loves not his brother whom he sees, how can he love God whom he sees not?” What then? does he that loves a brother, love God also? He must of necessity love God, must of necessity love Him that is Love itself. Can one love his brother, and not love Love? Of necessity he must love Love. What then? because he loves Love, does it follow that he loves God? Certainly it does follow. In loving Love, he loves God. Or have you forgotten what you said a little while ago, “Love is God”? If “Love is God,” whoso loves Love, loves God. Love then your brother, and feel yourself assured.

— St. Augustine, Homilies on First John, homily 9, paragraph 10 (link).

Tags: religion, christiantiy, primary_source, history, theology

A list of historical e-text hosting sites (a little out of date)

Thu, 03 Jan 2008 04:23:28 GMT

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clipper's remarks: From the Internet Medieval Sourcebook, a list of resources for finding historical texts online. Not sure how reliable it is -- looks like it hasn't been updated in a long time, but a lot of stuff like this never changes.

Clip Source: www.fordham.edu

Historical eText Sites

The Internet History Sourcebooks Project: www.fordham.edu [Medieval, Modern European]

ORB Main Site: orb.rhodes.edu [General Medieval]

Online Medieval and Classical Libary: sunsite.berkeley.edu [Medieval]

Christian Cassics Ethereal Library: ccel.wheaton.edu [Early Christian]

New Advent: www.knight.org, www.csn.net [Early Christian, Aquinas]

Virginia Etext Center: etext.lib.virginia.edu [General Etexts]

St. Michael's Depot: abbey.apana.org.au [Church Councils]

Hanover College Historical Text Project: history.hanover.edu [General]

Eternal Word Television Network: www.ewtn.com [Roman Catholic Material]

American Universoty Catholic Files: listserv.american.edu [Early Christian]

Benedictine Pages: www.osb.org [Monastic Texts]

St. Pachomias Library: www.ocf.org [Orthodox Text]

Wesley Center for Applied Theology: wesley.nnc.edu [noncanonical texts, Josephus]

University of Pennsylvania Site: ccat.sas.upenn.edu [Christian, Late Antique Texts]

Tags: religion, teaching, education, resources, primary_source, search, links, check_this_out

Marsilius of Padua (c.1275-1342): a few links

Thu, 03 Jan 2008 04:19:38 GMT

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clipper's remarks: I've been meaning for some time to read up on this guy, sort of the intellectual godfather of medieval constitutionalism.

Clip Source: www.jeteye.com

Marsilius of Padua

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Marsilius of Padua (Answers.com)

Link: http://www.answers.com/marsilius+of+padua

Defensor pacis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defensor_pacis

Medieval Sourcebook: Marsiligio of Padua: Conclusions from Defensor Pacis, 1324

Link: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/marsiglio1.html

Medieval Sourcebook: Marsiligio of Padua: Condemnation by John XII, 1327

Link: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/marsiglio2.html

Medieval Sourcebook: Marsilius of Padua: Defensor Pacis, 1324

Link: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/marsiglio4.html

CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Marsilius of Padua

Link: http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09719c.htm

Medieval Sourcebook: Marsilius of Padua: Defensor Pacis, 1324

Link: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/marsiglio4.html

Tags: religion, christianity, politics, history, primary_source, links, jetpak

Swift's Tale of a Tub (complete e-text)

Mon, 31 Dec 2007 19:57:37 GMT

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clipper's remarks: The classic, surreal, bizarre work of satire by Swift. I've clipped (part of) my favorite section, where he talks about the way "vapours" from the gut rise to the brain and inspire supposed genius (e.g. political, military, religious leadership).

Clip Source: www.gutenberg.org

The Project Gutenberg EBook of A Tale of a Tub, by Jonathan Swift

For if we take a survey of the greatest actions that have been performed in the world under the influence of single men, which are the establishment of new empires by conquest, the advance and progress of new schemes in philosophy, and the contriving as well as the propagating of new religions, we shall find the authors of them all to have been persons whose natural reason hath admitted great revolutions from their diet, their education, the prevalency of some certain temper, together with the particular influence of air and climate.

Thus far, I suppose, will easily be granted me; and then it will follow that as the face of Nature never produces rain but when it is overcast and disturbed, so human understanding seated in the brain must be troubled and overspread by vapours ascending from the lower faculties to water the invention and render it fruitful.

Tags: religion, history, literature, satire, primary_source, etext

Martin Luther's Christmas sermon, 1522

Thu, 27 Dec 2007 03:27:59 GMT

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clipper's remarks: The great Reformer on the meaning of Christmas. This is only a tiny snippet; the original is very wide-ranging and covers a lot of ground. The source is worth reading.

Clip Source: homepage.mac.com

The Birth of Jesus

Christmas Day; Luke 2:1-14

A sermon by Martin Luther, from his Wartburg Church Postil, 1521-1522

58. Now let every one examine himself in the light of the Gospel and see how far he is from Christ, what is the character of his faith and love. There are many who are enkindled with dreamy devotion, when they hear of such poverty of Christ, are almost angry with the citizens of Bethlehem, denounce their blindness and ingratitude, and think, if they had been there, they would have shown the Lord and his mother a more becoming service, and would not have permitted them to be treated so miserably. But they do not look by their side to see how many of their fellow men need their help, and which they let go on in their misery unaided. Who is there upon earth that has no poor, miserable, sick, erring ones, or sinful people around him? Why does he not exercise his love to those? Why does he not do to them as Christ has done to him?

Tags: religion, christianity, history, primary_source, sermon, christmas, luther, reformation, rels365, assign_this

Clipmarks | enbar's Historical collection

The original Mother's Day (hint: it's not from Hallmark)

Mother's Day Proclamation - 1870

Three of my favorite second-century martyrs: Polycarp, Ignatius, Perpetua

The Martyrdom of Polycarp

The Epistle of Ignatius to the Romans

Medieval Sourcebook: St.Perpetua: The Passion of Saints Perpetua and Felicity 203

Saint Augustine on the meaning of Christian love

A list of historical e-text hosting sites (a little out of date)

Marsilius of Padua (c.1275-1342): a few links

Marsilius of Padua

Marsilius of Padua (Answers.com)

Defensor pacis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Medieval Sourcebook: Marsiligio of Padua: Conclusions from Defensor Pacis, 1324

Medieval Sourcebook: Marsiligio of Padua: Condemnation by John XII, 1327

Medieval Sourcebook: Marsilius of Padua: Defensor Pacis, 1324

CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Marsilius of Padua

Medieval Sourcebook: Marsilius of Padua: Defensor Pacis, 1324

Swift's Tale of a Tub (complete e-text)

Martin Luther's Christmas sermon, 1522

Christmas Day; Luke 2:1-14

Medieval Sourcebook:
St.Perpetua: The Passion of Saints Perpetua and Felicity 203