305 - Richard Rohlin - How to Read Like a Medieval Person
The Symbolic World
Jonathan Pageau
4.8 • 933 Ratings
🗓️ 2 September 2023
⏱️ 90 minutes
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Summary
Original YouTube version of this episode: https://youtu.be/CyJaaX60QKw
THE BEOWULF COURSE
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We are excited to present our very first online course hosted directly on The Symbolic World website!
Richard Rohlin and Jonathan Pageau will build on their popular Universal History series by offering an in-depth exploration of the Epic Poem, Beowulf.
Promo video: https://youtu.be/hUjxvEw3uCY?si=jozwytuh-tcHQe7i
You are invited to participate in this 6-week live online course every Thursday starting on Thursday, September 7th, at 2:00pm Eastern Time. Each session will be 2 hours long. The course will conclude on October 19th. (Note: No class on September 21th.)
All materials will be provided, except for a copy of R.M. Liuzza's translation of Beowulf: https://www.amazon.com/Beowulf-Broadview-Literary-Texts-Liuzza/dp/1551111896
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Timestamps:
0:00 - Preview
0:44 - Intro music
1:08 - Introduction
4:35 - C.S. Lewis
7:09 - Modern VS Ancient
11:10 - Tourists in the Church
15:11 - 1) Authorship and textual "errors"
20:16 - Why do we have 4 gospel accounts?
22:52 - What is a book? Pre-modern, Modern, and Post-Modern
30:13 - Authorship
33:11 - Transmission
37:40 - 2) The meaning of words and things
55:47 - 3) Heaven above, earth below
1:04:00 - Moved by love
1:5:25 - Space and time
1:7:39 - The metric system
1:10:20 - Chronos and Kairos
1:17:11 - Meaning in hindsight
1:20:55 - 4) The anthropocosmic vision
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| 0:00.0 | So this is all by way of saying, not only is the metric system demonic, but cause and effect is made up. |
| 0:07.6 | In the Middle Ages, people did not see history. |
| 0:11.0 | And again, you could read some of Olaskin's essays about this. |
| 0:13.5 | And he's even got a whole section on it in a history of the island. |
| 0:16.0 | If people are curious about this. |
| 0:17.6 | But in the Middle Ages, people didn't see history as a series of causes and |
| 0:21.1 | effects. They saw history as a battle between good and evil, which means that the most important |
| 0:26.7 | thing in history has already happened because that was the crucifixion and the resurrection |
| 0:30.4 | of Jesus Christ. But history is this battle between good and evil. This is what the whole |
| 0:34.7 | apocalypse of St. John is about? Is history seen as this conflict between good and evil in which good ultimately triumphs? |
| 0:56.1 | This is Jonathan Peugeot. Welcome to the symbolic world. |
| 1:13.1 | So hello, everyone. I am back with Richard Rowland for another universal history episode. This week, |
| 1:17.9 | Richard is going to give us a presentation that he's prepared in another context, but that is very, I was very successful. It is about how to read, like a medieval, how to look at the ancient |
| 1:22.7 | world, how to read the text, how to engage with the ancient world in a way that's truthful for |
| 1:27.3 | us today. |
| 1:28.5 | And before we start, I just want to make sure you know about the Beowulf class that we are putting together. |
| 1:34.6 | Richard is going to give a Christian reading of Beowulf that we're going to have on the symbolic world community. |
| 1:40.7 | I will be part of it. I will be taking the class and also giving some comments |
| 1:44.6 | in the discussion. And so look at the description. There'll be a link in the description below. |
| 1:51.6 | And we would love to see you come in. This is a new thing we're doing. And we're really excited |
| 1:55.4 | about this possibility of diving in way more than what we do in just these podcasts and |
| 2:00.8 | helping you learn how |
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