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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)
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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.
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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-).
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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. Novella cavalleresca anònima del segle XV en llengua catalana'
Published in Emotions in the Ancient and Medieval Mediterranean World
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Doctrinal features of early Christianity and medicine. From the Didascalia Apostolorum to Gregory of Nyssa
Manuel ORTUÑO ARREGUI
Original title: Los rasgos doctrinales del cristianismo primitivo y la medicina. De la Didascalia Apostolorum a Gregorio de Nisa
Published in The Kingdom of the Spirit
Keywords: Basil of Caesarea, Gregory of Nisa, Medicine, Primitive Christianity.
The aim of this paper has been to present the doctrinal features connecting early Christianity and medicine through the theological contributions of the holy fathers. Specifically, we have focused on the evolution of the doctrinal relationship from the Didascalia apostolorum to Gregory of Nyssa. In the analysis of this relationship through the texts we discover two ways of seeing the medicine of his time at the beginning of the diffusion and transmission of the Christian message and the beginning of its anthropology as opposed to paganism or Christianity. Basil represents a less scientific or rational medicine, and on the other hand, Gregory of Nyssa offers us a penitential and even pastoral medicine with evident Neoplatonic philosophical influences. In short, we can see an advance in the beginnings of Christian anthropology and its relationship with the medicine of the time, which can be summed up in the beginning of the ‘Theology of Illness’, which is fundamentally centered on penitential medicine.
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Cervantes’ Ginés de Pasamonte and his literary descendants: from The Pretended Aunt to Manuel Mújica Láinez
Jesús Fernando CÁSEDA TERESA
Original title: El Ginés de Pasamonte cervantino y su descendencia literaria: de La tía fingida a Manuel Mújica Láinez
Published in Returning to Eden
Keywords: Castillo Solórzano, Ginés de Pasamonte, La tía fingida, Mújica Láinez, Quevedo.
The study establishes how, as a result of a misreading of the episode of Ginés de Pasamonte in Don Quixote, a state of opinion was born that was later reflected in various relevant literary texts of the time, in poems by Quevedo, also in his Buscón or in the text of Avellaneda. This study also analyzes the presence of the Bracamonte family in comedies by Alonso de Castillo Solórzano, in the picaresque novel by Gregorio Guadaña and in La tía fingida, an anonymous work whose presence of this family is very significant in order to affirm or question the authorship of the work by Miguel de Cervantes. In the 20th century, Manuel Mújica Láinez associated the Bracamonte family with the rogues through the protagonist of his historical novel D. Galaz de Buenos Aires, halfway between the Lazarillesque genre and that of the novels of chivalry.
