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2023-08-20T05:36:34-07:00

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Liu Bei, Cao Cao, and the Celestial Master: The Birth of Modern Taoism

Last updated on: August 20, 2023 at 5:36 am By Matthew S. Dentice

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Millennialism has a long history in China. Though millennialist thinking spans the globe, rarely has it showed so much diversity or had such an influence as in Chinese history. Millennialist movements, large, popular, and sometimes capable of remaking the country’s balance of power, are a constant feature of the last two-thousand years of Chinese history. Indeed, two of the nation’s most well-known dynasties, the Tang and the Ming, began as millennialist movements and maintained aspects of their messianic ideology even... Read more

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Religious Thought of the Three Kingdoms

2024-03-08T13:51:47-08:00

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Zhuge Liang and Cui Zhouping

Last updated on: March 8, 2024 at 1:51 pm By Matthew S. Dentice

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Recently, I have found myself turning back to that great monument of Chinese literature, the Romance of the Three Kingdoms. This novel, which has served as the national epic of the Chinese people for seven hundred years and is based on a story tradition dating back even further, is a fictionalized retelling of historical events from the second and third centuries of the common era. It is best known in the Western world for inspiring a number of video games,... Read more

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Religious Thought of the Three Kingdoms

2023-06-27T05:55:26-07:00

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Arthurus alter Christus: Concluding Thoughts

Last updated on: June 27, 2023 at 5:55 am By Matthew S. Dentice

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Among the various Arthurian texts in my possession is a 1987 edition of Geoffrey Ashe’s The Discovery of King Arthur, a seminal book in which Ashe (who passed away early last year) advanced his argument that the historical Arthur was a fifth-century king known as Riothamus. The back cover of the 1987 edition includes an excerpt from a Los Angeles Times review that I had always found rather curious. It reads: As Ashe eloquently illustrates…the true importance of Arthur (and... Read more

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The Myth of the Last World Emperor

Christianity

Francis Orray Ticknor

2023-06-26T09:56:29-07:00

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Arthurus alter Christus: Francis Orray Ticknor, Part II

Last updated on: June 26, 2023 at 9:56 am By Matthew S. Dentice

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Despite the claim of Scott Morris Jr. in Confederate Poets that “[t]he poet-physician [Ticknor] never bothered to collect his verses in one volume … once they were published in magazines or journals they were forgotten” (Morris 16), there is reason to think that Ticknor viewed the “War Poems” as parts of a unified work and arranged them in something like their current order. They are prefaced by a dedication he himself wrote, “To the Women of the South … I... Read more

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Civil War

Francis Orray Ticknor

2024-06-29T19:19:10-07:00

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Arthurus alter Christus: Francis Orray Ticknor, Part I

Last updated on: June 29, 2024 at 7:19 pm By Matthew S. Dentice

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While the nation as a whole at the outbreak of the Civil War was experiencing a vogue for a romanticized British past of wise kings, gallant knights, and courtly damsels, this fascination was particularly strong in the Southern states. Southerners had a marked tendency to develop fixations on symbols of heroic British knighthood and apply those symbols to themselves. Jason Philips, in Looming Civil War, describes their particular fascination for Henry “Hotspur” Percy, the fifteenth-century English rebel leader immortalized... Read more

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Civil War

Francis Orray Ticknor

2023-06-26T09:57:31-07:00

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Arthurus alter Christus: Sallie Bridges, Part II

Last updated on: June 26, 2023 at 9:57 am By Matthew S. Dentice

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It is chiefly “Avilion” that has brought Bridges to the attention of researchers today. Lupack and Lupack offer a brief consideration to the poem in King Arthur in America, where they make the important connection between “Avilion” and Bridges’s allegiance to the Union: “Though no specific allusion is made to contemporary events, one cannot help but feel that the poem is really a comment on the events surrounding the Civil War,” (Lupack and Lupack 19-20). The Lupacks draw on... Read more

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Arthurus alter Christus

The Myth of the Last World Emperor

2023-06-26T09:57:51-07:00

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Arthurus alter Christus: Sallie Bridges, Part I

Last updated on: June 26, 2023 at 9:57 am By Matthew S. Dentice

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A kind of nationalized Christian millennialism may have been the most common lens through which Americans viewed their nation in the nineteenth century but it was not the only one. Indeed, Americans drew from several sources in the construction of their national story. And while the millennialist ideology necessarily tied the nation’s value to its future, there were also ways of thinking about the United States that anchored its worth in the past. While Americans might celebrate... Read more

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2023-06-26T09:58:10-07:00

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Millennialist Beliefs and the American Civil War

Last updated on: June 26, 2023 at 9:58 am By Matthew S. Dentice

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Before we can turn to the Civil War-era writers mentioned in the last entry, it is first necessary to understand how deeply engrained apocalyptic beliefs were in American culture at the time. Most Americans are probably familiar with the famous Union marching song, the Battle Hymn of the Republic, as it has remained an occasional patriotic standard ever since the Civil War. What most are not aware of is how much the song draws upon apocalyptic themes and... Read more

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2023-06-26T09:58:31-07:00

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Arthurus alter Christus: Tennyson and the Victorians

Last updated on: June 26, 2023 at 9:58 am By Matthew S. Dentice

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In “To the Queen,” the verse epilogue to his great Arthurian work, Idylls of the King, Alfred, Lord Tennyson assured Queen Victoria that rumors of the British Empire’s demise were no more than: morning shadows huger than the shapes That cast them, not those gloomier which forego The darkness of that battle in the West, Where all of high and holy dies away.” (“To the Queen” ll. 63-66) Of course, Tennyson missed the mark with his prophecy of a... Read more

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2023-09-12T18:17:08-07:00

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Athurus alter Christus: King Arthur as Last World Emperor in Malory’s Morte d’Arthur

Last updated on: September 12, 2023 at 6:17 pm By Matthew S. Dentice

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It is remarkable, given the number of centuries that Malory’s Le Morte d’Arthur reigned as the English-speaking world’s chief Arthurian text, that the concept of the return remained such an important part of Arthur’s story. For what most readers take away from Malory’s treatment of Arthur’s return is how deeply his own skepticism appears to run. On the prospect of Arthur’s return, Malory offers the tart observation, “Yet I will not say that it shall be so; but rather... Read more

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