Issue

1. The chivalry and the art of war in the Ancient and Medieval World

   A cavalaria e a arte da guerra no Mundo Antigo e Medieval

   Organized by José Enrique RUIZ-DOMÈNEC e Ricardo da COSTA (orgs.)

   Mirabilia 08 (2008)

   

Article

1. Symbol and visionary experience in Hildegard of Bingen’s Epistolary (1098-1179)

   María ESTHER ORTIZ

   Original title: Símbolo y experiencia visionaria en el Epistolario de Hildegarda de Bingen (1098-1179)

   Published in The Medieval Aesthetics

   Keywords: Epistolary, Hildegard of Bingen, Symbol, Visionary experience.

   Hildegard of Bingen’s epistolary gathers, in its almost four hundred letters, a very rich biographic material with XII century historic and cultural data. It also presents a particular style, closed related to her visionary gift. Inside the exploration of this mundus imaginalis, a real aesthetic experience takes place: the symbols constellations that appear in these texts (mainly from nature) correspond with similar images from other languages used by Hildegard such as pictorial and musical ones. By means of some examples, this article inquires to what extent and in which way this perspective broadens the hermeneutic horizon in the epistolary texts.

2. A Arte de construir: a Arquitetura nas Cantigas de Santa Maria do rei Afonso X. Bárbara Dantas. Vila Velha: Balsamum Editora, 2018. ISBN 978-85-54306-00-7

   Matheus Corassa da SILVA

   Published in Society and Culture in Portugal

3. La poétique du corps: expressions et gestes dans le Retable de Saint Jean-Baptiste (1425-1430) de Bernat Martorell (1390-1452)

   Matheus Corassa da SILVA, Ricardo da COSTA

   Original title: A poética do corpo: expressões e gestos no Retábulo de São João Batista (1425-1430) de Bernat Martorell (1390-1452)

   Published in Ramon Llull. Seventh centenary

   Keywords: Analyse iconographique, Bernat Martorell, Corps, Gothique internacional, Retable de Saint Jean-Baptiste.

   Ce travail a l’intention de réaliser une étude iconographique du Retable de Saint Jean-Baptiste (1425-1430), attribué au peintre gothique catalan Bernat Martorell (1390-1452), afin d’analyser les représentations imagétiques du corps du saint, ses expressions faciales, ses gestes. Entre la vie d’ermite et la décapitation. Nous aurons, d’abord, une brève contextualisation du thème afin de situer les approches historiques, artistiques et philosophiques sur le corps, en particulier dans le Moyen Âge, notre époque d’étude. Après, nous présentons quelques informations sur l’histoire, l’emplacement et la division des compartiments de ce retable, le plus ancien attribué à Martorell. Nous procéderons, enfin, par l’analyse iconographique de deux des compartiments du retable: le central et ce qui représente la décollation du saint ermite. Nous suivons donc la proposition méthodologique de Erwin Panofsky (1892-1968), associée avec la hiérarchie analytique de Jean-Claude Schmitt (1946-).

4. Linguistic and Cultural Studies on Curial e Güelfa, a 15th Century Anonymous Chivalric Romance in Catalan

   Matheus Corassa da SILVA and Ricardo da COSTA

   Original title: Estudis lingüístics i culturals sobre Curial e Güelfa. Novel—la cavalleresca anònima del segle XV en llengua catalana'

   Published in Emotions in the Ancient and Medieval Mediterranean World

5. The War of Granada: Translation from Latin into Spanish and English and Study of Historical Fragments by Elio Antonio de Nebrija (1444-1522)

   Enric MALLORQUÍ-RUSCALLEDA

   Original title: La Guerra de Granada: traducción del latín al español e inglés y estudio de fragmentos históricos de Elio Antonio de Nebrija (1444-1522)

   Published in Intercultural Mediterranean

   Keywords: Elio Antonio de Nebrija, Latin translation, Medieval Literature, Reconquest, War of Granada.

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   This paper presents a series of direct translations of Nebrija’s Latin and the edition and annotation of fragments of the historical work Guerra de Granada (De Bello Granatensi) by Elio Antonio de Nebrija. Based on the outstanding edition of the Latin text by Prof. Dr. María Luisa Arribas Hernáez, the article is addressed to scholars, students of classical philology and history, and anyone interested in the history of the Reconquista and medieval literature. This first instalment of what is expected to be a complete translation of Nebrija’s text in both English and Spanish offers an invaluable tool for researching and studying this text published in 1545. In addition to improving the Spanish translation and creating an English version, cultural notes have been included to enrich the understanding of the text.

6. Mediterranean Cultural Tensions in Roman Egypt in light of the Λόγος Τέλειος (III AD)

   David Pessoa de LIRA

   Original title: Tensões mediterrâneas culturais no Egito Romano à Luz do Λόγος Τέλειος (III AD)

   Published in Intercultural Mediterranean

   Keywords: Asclepius Latinus, Hermetic Literature, Native Egyptians, Sociopolitical and socioreligious tensions, Λόγος Τέλειος, ἀλλόφυλοι, ⲗⲟⲅⲟⲥ ⲧⲉⲗⲉⲓⲟⲥ.

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   The Mediterranean in the Ancient Age was a space of conflicts, exchanges, encounters, interactions and disagreements. This article examines the cultural tensions between native Egyptians (ⲛ̅ⲣⲙ̅ⲛ̅ⲕⲏⲙⲉ [enremenkēme]) and the settlers of the metropolitan nomos in Roman Egypt, known as ἀλλόφυλοι or ⲛⲁⲗⲗⲟⲫⲩⲗⲟⲥ [n.allophylos], from a historical-literary and cultural perspective. The study focuses on the predictions of the Λόγος Τέλειος, corresponding to Asclepius 24 in its Latin version and ⲗⲟⲅⲟⲥ ⲧⲉⲗⲉⲓⲟⲥ (Nag Hammadi VI.8 [70.3-71.29]) in its Coptic version, with particular emphasis on sociocultural interaction in Roman Egypt.

7. The flood and its universality, a transcultural approach

   André BUENO; José Maria Gomes de Souza NETO

   Original title: O dilúvio e sua universalidade, uma abordagem transcultural

   Published in The Kingdom of the Spirit

   Keywords: China, Deluge, India, Mythography, Mythology, Near East, Universal Flood.

   A transcultural analysis of mythography’s about universal floods in ancient civilizations reveals important narrative splits, which make explicit the problem of trying to unify them. In our text, we will seek to present and discuss some issues related to flood/deluge myths in civilizations from the Levant, passing through India and reaching China, an important counterpoint to Western narratives. This comparison allows us to understand the different epistemes from which these myths have been worked and disseminated, and the challenges for a heterotopic claim of narrative fusion.

8. Grasping the Divine essence: Cusanus (1401-1464) and Wenck (†1460)

   Marica COSTIGLIOLO

   Published in The Kingdom of the Spirit

   Keywords: Dialogue, Difference, Nicholas of Cusa, Transcendence.

   In this aim, I analyse some theories of De docta ignorantia (1440) of Nicholas of Cusa, criticized by Johannes Wenck. Some interesting themes emerge from the dispute between Cusanus and Wenck: for example, on the threshold of modernity the way thinkers use concepts and words to define transcendence, time, difference. Through this dispute, the end of the Middle Ages appears as a rich intellectual period and a harbinger of continuous insights and new interpretations.

9. The Notion of Excessus in Saint Thomas Aquinas (1224-1274)

   Luís Carlos Silva de SOUSA

   Original title: A noção de Excessus em Santo Tomás de Aquino (1224-1274)

   Published in The Kingdom of the Spirit

   Keywords: Deus, Excessus, Knowledge, Metaphysics, Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, Thomas Aquinas, Transcendence, Triplex via.

   The aim of this paper is to analyse the notion of excessus in St. Thomas Aquinas (Sth. Iª, q. 84, a. 7 ad 3). We will highlight the influence of the negative way of Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite on human intellectual knowledge about God. The term excessus indicates the way of eminence (via eminentiae, per excessum) of our knowledge of the fullness of God’s perfections, that is, of his transcendence.