Eleanor once said, I've married a monk not a monarch. 埃莉诺曾经坦言,我嫁的是个和尚而不是一位君主。 And there was another problem. 还有另一个问题。 The French king needed a son and Eleanor gave birth only to girls. 法国国...
In 1128, an enraged princess arrived here. 1128年,一位愤怒的公主抵达这里。 Her name was Matilda and she was the only survival legitimate child of King Henry I of England and he's acknowledged there. 她的名字是玛蒂尔达,是英格兰...
In the process, the culture and politics of Brithish isles were transformed. 在这个过程中,英国群岛的文化和政治发生了很大的变化。 England's distinctive system of justice was established. 英格兰建立起了独一无二的司法...
In early medieval France, the Count of Anjou became enthroned by a mysterious woman. 在中世纪法国的早期,昂儒伯爵因为一位神秘的女性而登上王位。 They married and had several children. 于是他们结婚并且有了几个孩子...
And among the loot, was Josephus himself, carried to Rome and installed in the Flavian family compound. 而在战利品中,约瑟夫将自己带到罗马,并且受命于弗拉家族。 But no one in Rome thanked him for doing the right thing. 但是罗...
Perhaps the Elephantine Jews didn't know about the rule, or perhaps distance from Jerusalem made them indifferent to it, 也许是笨拙的犹太人压根就不晓得规矩,抑或是离耶路撒冷的遥远使他们变得漠不关心, because they bu...
The big battle, anticipated with such poetic excitement in the War Scroll, became grim, bloody reality in 66 AD. 这场史诗的战役,曾经期许在战争潮水中翻涌滚动诗意般的兴奋,突然在公元66年变成了残酷,血腥的现实。...
At precisely the same time, that Jerusalem was being purified by the Babylonian exiles. 在同一时间, 耶路撒冷由巴比伦流亡者所净化。 Here in the very gentile world of Upper Egypt, exiles are living a Jewish life of a very different...
At last, this compromised, sycophantic, creepily self-exonerating historian stands tall, brimful with pride in his Judaism, and says in a phrase I find genuinely movingWe have become the teachers of men in the greatest of things. 最后,这一妥协,奉...
On the arch, dedicated to Vespasian's son and co-general, Titus. 在拱门处,维斯帕先的儿子和将军提图斯浴血奋战。 You can see the triumphant Romans making off with the loot from the temple, including the giant Menorah. 你可以看到...
The Promised Land. 乐土，福地，希望之乡。 This is the view from Mount Nebo in Jordan. 这是约旦的尼波山。 According to the Bible, this is where Moses died after leading the Israelites for 40 years through the wilderness, on the ver...
Freud's theory was outrageous. 弗洛伊德的理论太离谱了。 The ancient Israelites had rebelled against Moses and murdered him. 古代以色列人曾经背叛摩西并且将他杀害。 But then, consumed by guilt and remorse, had adopted the...
And at the heart of the celebration is the liberation of the ancient Israelites from slavery in Egypt,the story of stories, replayed around the Seder table with the help of the Seder plate and its symbolic foods, and a ritual book called the Haggadah...
An ancient Hanukkah lamp, a commemoration of the temple light, that tradition said kept burning. 一盏古旧的光明节灯,纪念着光明,它的传统是一直燃烧。 It mattered supremely to Freud, 这对弗洛伊德而言意味良多, this lit...
In the summer of 1938, an eminent, elderly Jew recently arrived in London from Vienna was interviewed by the BBC. 在1938年的夏天,一位自维也纳远道而来杰出的,年长的犹太人最近抵达伦敦接受了BBC的采访。 I discovered so...
