This essay deals with the collective episodes of Christian martyrdom that took place in Japan Early Modern Time. On February 5, 1597 six Spanish Franciscans, seventeen Japanese catechists and three Jesuits, a priest two brothers were martyred by crucifixion on Nishizaka Hill, Nagasaki. episode Christians was first many such occurred to great extent during so-called Century or Namban Era (1549-1...

Fondés en 1919 par Maurice Denis et George Desvallières, les Ateliers d’Art sacré eurent un rôle prépondérant dans l’émergence d’un art religieux moderne au cours de l’entre-deux-guerres. Après leur formation peinture, sculpture ou vitrail, certains élèves devenus compagnons continuaient, parallèlement à une carrière individuelle, collaborer des chantiers collectifs sous la direction leurs maît...

In reading the literature of English physiology I have been struck by the continual recurrence of the word, "sacrifice." When a French or German physiologist has destroyed an animal, he says simply that he has killed it, whereas his English or American counterpart almost always says that he has "sacrificed" the animal. No doubt it will be objected that this is a mere convention, one beginning a...

paintings, complemented by quotations of the artist, are a highlight of the book. Patrick Lacoste's discussion of psychoanalytic approaches to pain is dense and difficult. He discusses three separate phenomena-psychogenic bodily pain, neurotic psychical pain and psychotic suffering. He depicts psychogenic pain as a defence, an avoidance of an encounter with something even more unbearable. His t...

O. Mandelstam's poem Like chiaroscuro Martyr Rembrandt combines ekphrasis, testament of the poet, and declaration social position: this combination has posed difficulties for interpreters. A number obscure images, such as imprisonment, wealth, or a tribe associates, are convincingly interpreted Mandelstams deduction his own biography from circumstances Rembrandts life, but explain neither expre...