![]() The film, starring Tom Hanks and Audrey Tautou as Langdon and Sophie (2006), featured a climactic sequence at the site, and created a touristic audience with interests far removed from the original Catholic function of the Chapel, and from the research of Medieval Studies scholars The publication of Dan Brown’s sensationalist novel about Robert Langdon (a Harvard scholar of religious ‘symbology’) and Sophie Neveu (a French cryptologist) investigating Jesus and Mary Magdalene’s bloodline and the whereabouts of the Holy Grail, The Da Vinci Code (2003), featured Rosslyn prominently. The chapel is owned by a trust administered by the Sinclair (St Clair) family, and in 2000 was in urgent need of repairs. The foundation stone was laid by William Sinclair, Third Earl of Orkney and First Earl of Caithness, in 1446. Rosslyn Chapel is a small, elaborately decorated fifteenth century church in Roslin village, seven miles south of Edinburgh. The Chapel also received a ‘prestigious Sandford Award for its education work’ and was certified Gold by the Green Tourism Business Scheme in 2016. The Collegiate Chapel of St Matthew, better known as Rosslyn Chapel, was named ‘best attraction’ in the 2015-2016 Scottish Thistle Awards, selected ahead of other tourist attractions including the Wallace Monument, Stirling and Born in the Borders, an artisan brewery and visitor centre in Jedburgh. It aims to ascertain whether this evidence is accurate or erroneous, and subsequently, to judge whether Brown had broken or repaired the taboos in his novel. ![]() The analysis will be linguistic-religious. To answer these questions, the researcher has analyzed his, Brown's, pieces of evidence which he claims are "accurate, true and well-researched" for they are completely taken from actual documents and sources. Thus, the study aims at answering the question whether Brown broke or repaired the three tabooed topics mentioned above. These pieces are related to the sexuality of Christ and the assertions of His marriage to Magdalene. The analysis will be based upon the information, which is, as Brown claims, taken from pieces of "fact-based historical and scientific evidence ". Such a controversy has led the researcher to investigate a number of expert historians' and documentary studies to shed light on the backbone of the present study: Did Brown break or repair taboos in his novel? Or, let us ask, what is his real purpose as regards the above three tabooed topics? The researcher has intended to analyze a number of extracts taken from the novel focusing on those related to the deity/humanity of Jesus and His alleged marriage to Magdalene. Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code(2003) –henceforth DVC-has acquired a matchless reputation and it has been privileged with incomparable studies which have reached the utmost scope of controversy since it was supposed to rock the foundations of Christianity because of Jesus Christ's marriage and to none other Mary Magdalene (1), the uprightness of the Holy Bible, and the deity of Jesus, which, the three topics, lie behind Jesus Christ's and Mary Magdalene's marriage.
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