The Knight, Death, and the Devil: A Reading from Venner

Please note that the venue is in the vicinity of the Scott Monument and will be announced to RSVPing members closer to the event date. We will NOT be meeting at the monument, itself. . For this event, we’ll look at selections from A Western Samurai: The Handbook of the Unbowed, by the late French historian, Dominique Venner. He writes there of “a kinship with a great rebel consigned to the ages, but neglected today…Dürer’s Knight [from] The Knight, Death, and the Devil…a marvelous woodcut print from 1513… “Made immortal by the woodcut, the Knight will live forever in our people’s memory, out of time. Alone, with his steady steed and his sword at his side, the most famous [rebel] of Western art rides towards his fate, traversing forests and the realms of our imagination, without fear… He embodies an eternal type in this corner of the world known as Europe.” Venner later reflects that “already the early winds of what is to come make it necessary for Europeans to return to themselves, to the spirit of their spirit. This Handbook has the sole purpose of accompanying and intensifying that necessity. “I am keenly aware that much of what is essential in me I owe to my origins; for this reason, I will always defend and uphold the fundamental right of all other humans to be sovereign over their own homelands and cultures—the right to be rooted in something that allows them to be themselves, to be home, and not be nothing… “We are the first Europeans burdened with the duty of completely rethinking our identity through a return to our most authentic sources. The Antiquity we are invoking is not that of scholars. It is a living Antiquity, which it is our task to reinvent.” Please join us for an introduction to the work of Venner. Find the reading here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HavLZO3NZQZjO-JTPpKttcEuCBkZwE1v/view?usp=sharing C&S . Please note that, weather permitting, this will be an outside event. Note also that this will be a joint event with our other groups, NCFEM (https://www.meetup.com/new-culture-forum-edinburgh-meetup/) and European Paganisms (https://www.meetup.com/europeanpaganisms/), with an invitation extended to members of the NCF Locals platform as well.