Alba gu bràth! The 15th century poet Blind Harry is best-known for his account eulogizing which person?
"hero William Wallace (portrayed by Mel Gibson) shouts, ""Alba gu bràth"" as he gallops across the front of his assembled Scottish troops just prior to the Battle of Stirling Bridge. Alba gu bràth Alba gu bràth () is a Scottish Gaelic phrase used to express allegiance to Scotland. Idiomatically it translates into English as ""Scotland forever"" though the literal meaning of ""gu bràth"" in Gaelic is 'until Judgment'. The phrase is often used as a political slogan in the campaign for Scottish independence. The phrase is parallel to the Welsh language slogan ""Cymru am byth"" (""Wales forever"") or the Irish"
"for high treason and crimes against English civilians. Since his death, Wallace has obtained an iconic status far beyond his homeland. He is the protagonist of Blind Harry's 15th-century epic poem ""The Wallace"" and the subject of literary works by Sir Walter Scott and Jane Porter, and of the Academy Award-winning film ""Braveheart"". He was first cousin to Roger de Kirkpatrick. Roger was third cousin to Robert the Bruce. William Wallace was a member of the lesser nobility, but little is definitely known of his family history or even his parentage. Blind Harry's late-15th-century poem gives his father as Sir"
"in 1500 CE. Perhaps the most famous artistic depiction of the phrase is Pieter Bruegel's ""The Blind Leading the Blind"". Little is known about Bruegel's life, although he frequently depicted scenes of rustic life. The distemper on canvas painting was completed in 1568, and is currently in the collection of the Museo di Capodimonte in Naples, Italy. ""The Blind Leading the Blind"" is a poem by Pulitzer prize winning poet Lisel Mueller ""Blind Leading the Blind"" is a song by Lynsey de Paul. It was the 'B' side of her 1973 single, All Night. ""Blind leading the blind"" was a"
"The Wallace (poem) The Actes and Deidis of the Illustre and Vallyeant Campioun Schir William Wallace (), also known as The Wallace, is a long ""romantic biographical"" poem by the fifteenth-century Scottish ""makar"" of the name Blind Harry probably at some time in the decade before 1488. As the title suggests, it commemorates and eulogises the life and actions of the Scottish freedom fighter William Wallace who lived a century and a half earlier. The poem is historically inaccurate, and mentions several events that never happened. For several hundred years following its publication, ""The Wallace"" was the second most popular"
"Stesichorus Stesichorus (; , ""Stēsikhoros""; c. 630 – 555 BC) was the first great lyric poet of the West. He is best known for telling epic stories in lyric metres but he is also famous for some ancient traditions about his life, such as his opposition to the tyrant Phalaris, and the blindness he is said to have incurred and cured by composing verses first insulting and then flattering to Helen of Troy. He was ranked among the nine lyric poets esteemed by the scholars of Hellenistic Alexandria and yet his work attracted relatively little interest among ancient commentators, so"
"to the following three lines of his poem ""The Palinode"", addressed to Helen of Troy: Helen of Troy's bad character was a common theme among poets such as Sappho and Alcaeus and, according to various ancient accounts, Stesichorus viewed her in the same light until she magically punished him with blindness for blaspheming her in one of his poems. According to a colourful account recorded by Pausanias, she later sent an explanation to Stesichorus via a man from Croton, who was on a pilgrimage to White Island in the Black Sea (near the mouth of the Blue Danube), and it"
"poet, and has little of his moral elevation, but he surpasses him in graphic power, vividness of description, and variety of incident. He occasionally shows the influence of Chaucer, and is said to have known Latin and French. Blind Harry's words were made more accessible by a translation written by William Hamilton of Gilbertfield (c. 1665–1751) published in 1722. In this form they met the notice of poets such as Robert Burns, Lord Byron, Robert Southey, John Keats, Joanna Baillie, and William Wordsworth. It was also an important source for Randall Wallace in his writing of the screenplay of ""Braveheart"","
"chivalrous. The English are depicted throughout as the natural and irreconcilable enemies of the Scots. In the early texts of the poem, the author of ""The Wallace"" is referred to as ""Hary"" or ""Blind Hary"" but little is known for certain about the poet. A man referred to as 'Blind Hary' is recorded as having received payments from King James IV on five occasions between 1490 and 1492. The reasons for the payments are not specified. A 'Blind Hary' is also mentioned by the near-contemporary poet William Dunbar in his Lament for the Makaris. In this poem Hary is included"
"The Blind Leading the Blind The Blind Leading the Blind, Blind, or The Parable of the Blind () is a painting by the Netherlandish Renaissance artist Pieter Bruegel the Elder, completed in 1568. Executed in distemper on linen canvas, it measures . It depicts the Biblical parable of the blind leading the blind from the Gospel of Matthew 15:14, and is in the collection of the Museo di Capodimonte in Naples, Italy. The painting reflects Bruegel's mastery of observation. Each figure has a different eye affliction, including corneal leukoma, atrophy of globe and removed eyes. The men hold their heads"
"statue was encased in a cage every night to prevent further vandalism. This only incited more calls for the statue to be removed, as it then appeared that the Gibson/Wallace figure was imprisoned. The statue was described as ""among the most loathed pieces of public art in Scotland"". In 2008, the statue was returned to its sculptor to make room for a new visitor centre being built at the foot of the Wallace Monument. Randall Wallace, who wrote the screenplay, has acknowledged Blind Harry's 15th-century epic poem ""The Acts and Deeds of Sir William Wallace, Knight of Elderslie"" as a"
"of money by the King at New Year, as were other minor courtiers, but a payment on 2 January 1492 seems to relate to the singing of a ballad accompanied by two Gaelic harpers, ""Ersche clareschaw"", mentioned in adjacent entries. This is the last mention of Harry in the accounts. He is mentioned by William Dunbar on line 69 of his ""Lament for the Makeris"" early in the 16th century. Historian John Major also wrote about Harry in 1518. These sources differed on whether or not he was blind from birth, but Harry almost certainly seems to have had a"
"""The Acts and Deeds of Sir William Wallace, Knight of Elderslie"", written around 1470 by Blind Harry the minstrel. Harry wrote from oral tradition describing events 170 years earlier, and is not in any sense an authoritative descriptor of Wallace's exploits. Much of the poem is clearly at variance with known historical facts and records of the period and is either fabricated using traditional chivalric motifs or 'borrowed' from the exploits of others and attributed to Wallace. Romanticism in Scotland took up Wallace after Robert Burns wrote in 1793 the ballad 'Scots Wha Hae' and Scottish nationalists commemorated him in"
"in a list of deceased poets mourned by Dunbar. The Scots scholar John Mair identified 'Blind Hary' as the author of ""The Wallace"" in his work ""Historia Majoris Britanniae"" or ""The History Of Greater Britain"" of 1521. ""The Wallace"" appears to date to the latter half of the fifteenth century. The earliest surviving copy, the Ramsay Manuscript, is dated to 1488 but evidence from within the poem itself suggests that it was completed during the 1470s or earlier. Blind Hary refers to having consulted William Wallace of Craigie while composing the poem and Wallace of Craigie is known to have"
"the belittled individual with an oversize sense of capacity, earns our fulsome affection, if leavened with our apprehension about his own blindness. Crusoe encountering Friday, Alice at a loss at the Mad Tea Party: Make room for the new Gulliver! He has brought home news out of Kazohinia."" This entry began as a translation of the . Additional information was added from the entry on its author, and further insight came from the afterword written by Dezső Keresztury to the English translation published in Hungary in 1975, as well as discussions and correspondence in 2011 with three noted literary scholars"
"appears in Horace: """" (""the blind leader of the blind""). Horace was the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus (27 BCE – 14 CE) The saying appears several times in the Bible with similar stories appearing in the gospels of Matthew, Luke and Thomas, possibly via the Q source. Sextus Empiricus (160 – 210CE) compares ignorant teachers and blind guides in Outlines of Scepticism: The phrase appears in Adagia, an annotated collection of Greek and Latin proverbs, compiled during the Renaissance by Dutch humanist Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus. The first edition, titled ""Collectanea Adagiorum"", was published in Paris"
"detail 5 extant manuscripts of Alice's biography (4 in Latin; 1 in Middle Dutch) These are: Alice of Schaerbeek Alice of Schaerbeek, O.Cist. (or Adelaide or Aleydis) (also known as Alice the Leper) (, ), (c. 1220–1250) was a Cistercian laysister who is venerated as the patron saint of the blind and paralyzed. Her feast day is June 15. Alice was born at Schaerbeek, near Brussels, then in the Duchy of Brabant. A frail child, at the age of seven, she was sent to be boarded and educated at the Cistercian La Cambre Abbey, where she remained for the rest"
"interesting poem by circumstances and technique that is written. Balthasar Charles, Prince of Asturias Balthasar Charles (17 October 1629 – 9 October 1646), Prince of Asturias, Prince of Girona, Duke of Montblanc, Count of Cervera, and Lord of Balaguer, Prince of Viana was heir apparent to all the kingdoms, states and dominions of the Spanish monarchy until his death. The only son of King Philip IV of Spain and his first wife, Elisabeth of France, he was baptized on November 4, 1629 in the Parish of San Juan, Madrid. His godparents were Infanta Maria Anna and Infante Charles, aunt and"
"by Blind Harry as one of the places which Malcolm Wallace, the father of Sir William Wallace, ` had in heritage; ' and it has remains of a small ancient castle, called Auchenbathie Tower. Another Auchenbathie is in the neighbourhood, and, as having belonged to another family than the Wallaces, is called Anchenbathie Blair."""" In 1572 Cuthberto Sympill de Auchinbothie was a signatory to a charter as was his servitor William Wallace. The Barony was later split into Achinbathie Blair and Achinbathie Wallace. Paterson records that the farm of Nethertrees was the farm of the barony and Wallace's Knowe stood"
"Latin poet Ennius, as reported by Cicero, called the heroic metre of one line ""versum longum"", to distinguish it from the brevity of lyrical measures. The current form of English heroic verse appears to be the invention of Chaucer, who used it in his ""Legend of Good Women"" and afterwards, with still greater freedom, in the ""Canterbury Tales"". Here is an example of it in its earliest development: This way of writing was misunderstood and neglected by Chaucer's English disciples, but was followed nearly a century later by the Scottish poet, called Blind Harry (c. 1475), whose ""The Actes and"
"minstrel Blind Harry wrote in his poem ""The Wallace"" that Wallace and his men defeated an English force at the hill in 1296 during the Wars of Scottish Independence. Blind Harry also tells of how the English general, Fenwick, who supposedly killed Wallace's father, was killed during the battle. Maps of the area now name a mound to the east of Loudoun Hill as 'Wallace's Grave'. A battle between Robert the Bruce and the English was also fought there on 10 May 1307. The land on which Darvel was built was owned by Earls of Loudoun and it was John"
"Blind Harry's ""Wallace"" (late 1470s). They were also seen as weaker creatures, morally and physically. Considerable emphasis was placed on their chastity, with ""whore"" being the most common form of abuse, and their conduct was constrained by the informal sanctions of community gossip, should they step outside of the accepted roles of wife or mother. A large proportion of the women for who biographical details survive for the Middle Ages, were members of the royal houses of Scotland, either as princesses or queen consorts. Some of these became important figures in the history of Scotland or gained a significant posthumous"
"two Scottish versions was anonymous (dated 1438?), and the second, in a version dated 1499?, is by Gilbert Hay. The earlier of the two versions from Scotland is the anonymous The Scots Buik of the most noble and vailyzeand Conqueror Alexander the Great. A few witnesses have tried to ascribe the text of this to the seminal Scots poet John Barbour and some of its passages certainly use material from ""The Brus"", an original verse romance, and Barbour's most famous poem. The sole witness for this ""Buik of Alexander"", however, is a single version printed at the Edinburgh press of"
"of the three listed here, the ""mira Federici gesta"" (""remarkable deeds of Frederick"") is lost. Peter of Eboli Peter of Eboli or Petrus de Ebulo (flourished ) was a didactic versifier and chronicler who wrote in Latin. A monk from Eboli (Campania, then part of the Kingdom of Naples), Peter became a court poet to Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor and King of Sicily. His flattering verse ""Liber ad honorem Augusti, sive de rebus Siculis"" (""Book to honor the Emperor, or The Affairs of Sicily""), probably written in Palermo, was his first work; it was dedicated to Henry VI, King"
"a half-brother Meyer Jacob (""Max"") Cohen. She was cremated in Woking, and her ashes were later placed in a monument erected by a friend and sponsor, Ludwig Mond, and designed by Édouard Lantéri in St Pancras Cemetery. More recently Blind has attracted the attention of women's literature scholars. As one website puts it, ""Her burning sense of political and social injustice runs like a unifying thread through her work. Her poetry combines great beauty of sound and image with vigorous narrative, delineation of character, emotional expressiveness, and engagement with intellectual ideas."" The site mentions George Eliot, George Sands and Elizabeth"
"It is direct and almost personal. The troubadour asks the Virgin Mary to show as much mercy to James as he showed on earth, referring to his establishing the Mercedarian Order in Barcelona. The poet Matieu de Caersi wrote a very different ""planh"", ""Tant suy marritz que no.m puese alegrar"", for James, moralising and religious in tone. Cerverí de Girona Cerverí de Girona (; fl. 1259–1285) was a Catalan troubadour born Guillem de Cervera in Girona. He was the most prolific troubadour, leaving behind some 114 lyric poems among other works, including an ""ensenhamen"" of proverbs for his son, totaling"
"15th century AD), authored by Laurent de Premierfait. Woodcut illustrations of Boccaccio's ""De Mulieribus Claris"" published at Ulm in 1479 and Augsburg in 1541 depict Cleopatra's discovery of Antony's body after his suicide by stabbing. Like much of Medieval literature about Cleopatra, Boccaccio's writings are largely negative and misogynistic. The 14th-century poet Geoffrey Chaucer counters these depictions, offering a positive view of Cleopatra. Chaucer began his hagiography on virtuous pagan women with the life of Cleopatra, depicted in a satirical fashion as a queen engaged in courtly love with her knight Mark Antony. His depiction of her suicide included a"
"major inspiration for the film. In defending his script, Randall Wallace has said, ""Is Blind Harry true? I don't know. I know that it spoke to my heart and that's what matters to me, that it spoke to my heart."" Blind Harry's poem is not regarded as historically accurate, and although some incidents in the film that are not historically accurate are taken from Blind Harry (e.g. the hanging of Scottish nobles at the start), there are large parts that are based neither on history nor Blind Harry (e.g. Wallace's affair with Princess Isabella). Elizabeth Ewan describes ""Braveheart"" as a"
"a sonnet about coping with blindness. The work posits that ""[those] who best Bear [God]'s mild yoke, they serve him best."" The Dutch painter and engraver Rembrandt often depicted scenes from the apocryphal Book of Tobit, which tells the story of a blind patriarch who is healed by his son, Tobias, with the help of the archangel Raphael. Slaver-turned-abolitionist John Newton composed the hymn Amazing Grace about a wretch who """"once was lost, but now am found, Was blind, but now I see."""" Blindness, in this sense, is used both metaphorically (to refer to someone who was ignorant but later"
"The title was originally to have been ""Lord Harry"", the colloquial name for the devil. Blind Love (novel) Blind Love was an unfinished novel by Wilkie Collins, which he left behind on his death in 1889. It was completed by historian and novelist Sir Walter Besant. Collins's novel had already begun serialization in ""The Illustrated London News"", even though the author had not yet completed it. (It ran from 6 July to 28 December of that year.) When it was published in book form on 1890, the volume included Besant's preface explaining the circumstances of the collaboration. Collins had started"
"include a baroque statue of Lutgardis on the Charles Bridge by Matthias Braun in Prague and a painting by Goya. The statue on Charles Bridge (""socha sv. Luitgardy"") was sculpted by Braun in 1710 as a commission from Evžen Tyttl, the abbot of the Cistercian monastery in Plasy. St. Lutgardis is the patron saint of the blind and physically disabled. In the 19th century, she was also taken as a patron of the Flemish movement because of her inability to speak Walloon. Lutgardis Saint Lutgardis of Aywières (; 1182 – 16 June 1246; also spelled Lutgarde) is a saint from"
"the earlier documented cases in which the ""dunking"" method was used in Britain. It was also a case in which more than one person was singled out; rather, an entire group was accused. One account is a manuscript of unknown authorship referenced as B.L. (British Library) Sloane 972 (f. 7) in which the writer shows an interest in the two witches' victims, Mistress Elizabeth Belcher and her brother Master William Avery. It names Agnes Browne and daughter Joan Browne (or Vaughan), Jane Lucas, Alce Harrys, Catherine Gardiner, and Alce Abbott and states they were jointly indicted for harming Belcher and"
"aloft to make better use of their other senses. The diagonal composition reinforces the off-kilter motion of the six figures falling in progression. It is considered a masterwork for its accurate detail and composition. Copies include a larger version by Bruegel's son Pieter Brueghel the Younger, and the work has inspired literature such as poetry by Charles Baudelaire and William Carlos Williams, and a novel by Gert Hofmann. Bruegel painted ""The Blind"" the year before his death. It has a bitter, sorrowful tone, which may be related to the establishment of the Council of Troubles in 1567 by the government"
"the story in epic poetry of Robert I's actions before the English invasion till the end of the war of independence. The work was extremely popular among the Scots-speaking aristocracy and Barbour is referred to as the father of Scots poetry, holding a similar place to his contemporary Chaucer in England. In the early fifteenth century these were followed by Andrew of Wyntoun's verse ""Orygynale Cronykil of Scotland"" and Blind Harry's ""The Wallace"", which blended historical romance with the verse chronicle. They were probably influenced by Scots versions of popular French romances that were also produced in the period, including"