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Michael Planck, who inspired the Guelphs.
California State University, Dominguez Hills
University of Wisconsin, Parkside
Created: January 4, 2001
Latest update: September 5, 2005
Well, I guess they started back with our Who's Who in Academic Discourse page, a few years ago.
Guelphs were meant to give you some color and shape, and to lend authenticity to feelings in academic work. To "guelph" is to stop and explore the feeling and have fun just with the feeling. No test to take. No guilt. No stress. Just fun. Enjoy. I've tried to give you both the original drawing and the finished. Feel free to play with them until they become your own. Then we'll call them signature guelphs. jeanne January 9, 2001. Guelphs are mutuality spirits, designed to help us see the cup as half full, hope as an alternative, forgiveness as normative, and respect for each other as a given. jeanne
Encyclopedia Britannica article on GuelphsThe Encyclopedia Britannica offers 57 mentions of Guelfs or Guelphs. Results 1-10 of 57. For example:
"Guelf and Ghibelline
Guelf also spelled Guelph, members of two opposing factions in German and Italian politics during the Middle Ages. The split between the Guelfs, who were sympathetic to the papacy, and the Ghibellines, who were sympathetic to the German (Holy Roman) emperors, contributed to chronic strife within the cities of northern Italy in the 13th and 14th centuries.
"Guelf was derived from Welf, the name of the…
"Welf Dynasty dynasty of German nobles and rulers who were the chief rivals of the Hohenstaufens in Italy and central Europe in the Middle Ages and who later included the Hanoverian Welfs, who, with the accession ...
"Ghibelline in medieval Italy, member of the pro-imperial party, opponents of the pro-papal Guelfs. See Guelf and Ghibelline.
"Campaldino, Battle of (June 11, 1289), in Italian history, a battle between Florence and Arezzo, an episode in the struggles among rival Tuscan towns and in the contest between the Guelfs and Ghibellines (pro-papal and ..."
(Guelf and Ghibelline. (2005). Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved September 4, 2005, from Encyclopædia Britannica Premium Service http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9038359)
Our library probably has the Encyclopedia online. Search further if you are intrigued by it. I just came up with the, having remembered it from somewhere in my childhood. jeanne
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