In this book, Curtis Gruenler proposes that the concept of the enigmatic, latent in a wide range of medieval thinking about literature, can help us better understand in medieval terms much of the era’s most enduring literature, from the riddles of the Anglo-Saxon bishop Aldhelm to the great vernacular works of Dante, Chaucer, Julian of Norwich, and, above all, Langland’s Piers Plowman. Riddles, rhetoric, and theology—the three fields of meaning of aenigma in medieval Latin—map a way of thinking about reading and writing obscure literature that was widely shared across the Middle Ages. The poetics of enigma links inquiry about language by theologians with theologically ambitious literature. Each sense of enigma brings out an aspect of this poetics. The playfulness of riddling, both oral and literate, was joined to a Christian vision of literature by Aldhelm and the Old English riddles of the Exeter Book. Defined in rhetoric as an obscure allegory, enigma was condemned by classical authorities but resurrected under the influence of Augustine as an aid to contemplation. Its theological significance follows from a favorite biblical verse among medieval theologians, “We see now through a mirror in an enigma, then face to face” (1 Cor. 13:12). Along with other examples of the poetics of enigma, Piers Plowman can be seen as a culmination of centuries of reflection on the importance of obscure language for knowing and participating in endless mysteries of divinity and humanity and a bridge to the importance of the enigmatic in modern literature. This book will be especially useful for scholars and undergraduate students interested in medieval European literature, literary theory, and contemplative theology.

A translation of essays by French critic and theorist Jean-Louis Schefer.

In The Enigmatic Voice of God the author outlines a path for bringing harmony into the world by awakening the dormant mythical character of human intelligence and by reconciling human behavior with nature. The book is a tasteful blend of science, philosophy, history and religion. Poems by the author have been selected to elevate the spirits of the reader. Particularly fascinating are the authors accounts of extraordinary experiences and revelations from a higher power.

Your soul is mirrored in your face and reveals many aspects of your character and temperament and even your relationships and future destiny.While coloring the surrealist drawings of "Enigmatic Faces" you will find different aspects of your personality from the virtual psychic viewpoint.For centuries the chinese have believed your facial features can reveal hidden truths about your personality.These face drawings can provide insights into your hidden personality, emotions,past life history, current situation and future development.The face is like your autobiography, open to anyone to read and reveals emotions, fate and true identity.The different expressions and symbolic meanings of these creative drawings will take you into a forgotten interior world, the enigma of the "Iam" or the concept of your own identity.Be in the now, relax and enjoy the creative process.HAPPY COLORING

The complete story of how the German Enigma codes were broken. Perfect for fans of THE IMITATION GAME, the new film on Alan Turing's Enigma code, starring Benedict Cumberbatch. Breaking the German Enigma codes was not only about brilliant mathematicians and professors at Bletchley Park. There is another aspect of the story which it is only now possible to tell. It takes in the exploits of spies, naval officers and ordinary British seamen who risked, and in some cases lost, their lives snatching the vital Enigma codebooks from under the noses of Nazi officials and from sinking German ships and submarines. This book tells the whole Enigma story: its original invention and use by German forces and how it was the Poles who first cracked - and passed on to the British - the key to the German airforce Enigma. The more complicated German Navy Enigma appeared to them to be unbreakable.

M is the name of an enigma. In his short and violent life, Michaelangelo Merisi, from Caravaggio, changed art for ever. In the process he laid bare his own sexual longing and the brutal realities of his life with shocking frankness. Like no painter before him and few since, M the man appears in his art. As a book about art and life and how they connect, there has never been anything quite like it.