The Nine Worthies

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nine_Worthies

by brudgers • 4 years ago

20 9 4 years ago

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cratermoon• 4 years ago

I see Christians, Pagans, and Jews, but no Muslims. Funny, that. No Abbasids, no Osman I, Suleyman the Magnificent.

ggm• 4 years ago

I think there was a general sense the three wise men included people not of the jewish tradition. So although islam came along a few generations later it was implicitly baked into the birth scene, the prequel story. Kinda. I mean if you're a medieval artist, what're you going to go to, with a weird and wonderful magus boxing up some myrrh and frank, incensed cookies?

Archbish Hippo and Good old Augustine aside, I think most of the stone cutters in the gothic period didn't really get the idea of "people of colour" very well. Those black madonna generally started out white and .. age and fingerprints happened.

theandrewbailey• 4 years ago

A few generations later? It was about 600 years later.

bee_rider2• 4 years ago

The list was made up by a medieval writer from what would now be northeastern France, so the oversight isn’t that unexpected, right?

tgv• 4 years ago

Certainly the Abbasids wouldn't have had a great name in France at the time (*). And Suleyman hadn't even been born in the 14th century.

(*) because of the Crusades; the loss of the Holy Land was still recent.

quangv• 4 years ago

Surprised there isn’t a movie franchise about this.

bee_rider2• 4 years ago

The 9 worthies 2: 2 Alexander 2 The Great.

pannSun• 4 years ago

It would clash with the zeitgeist currently prevalent in Hollywood. If they decided to pursue it, it would be from a "subversive" angle, as they like to boast.

The Nine Worthies

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