Borrowed, Not Fabricated

This article focuses on a significant Sicilian folk prayer, ‘U Vebbu’ (The Word). It shows that this important oral tradition was not based on an ‘illogical extract of random religious ideas’, virtually assembled by the folk imagination, but was the direct result of the impact that different medieval cultures had within southern Italy during and subsequent to the Crusades. This ultimately indicates that significant elements of folklore are selectively adopted on the basis of what carries meaning or has a perceived benefit, due to the people's history within their living environment

Aesthetics · Ancient history · Art · Epistemology · Ethnology · Folklore · Linguistics · Literature · Meaning (existential · Prayer · Sicilian · Byzantine Studies and History · Historical and Linguistic Studies · History · Medieval Literature and History · Philosophy · Religious studies

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