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The war in Waltharius
Gabriela Monti
Original title: La guerra en el Waltharius (vv. 644-1061)
Published in The chivalry and the art of war in the Ancient and Medieval World
Keywords: Enemies, Waltharius, hero.
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The war in Epitoma rei militaris by Flavius Vegetius: between christian faith and barbarian pressure
Raphael Leite Teixeira
Original title: A guerra no Epitoma rei militaris de Flávio Vegécio (séc. IV d.C.): entre a fé cristã e a pressão bárbara
Published in The chivalry and the art of war in the Ancient and Medieval World
Keywords: Basileia, Late roman army, Military history, Vegetius.
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O léxico bélico do Old English no épico The Battle of Maldon
Italo Papi da Costa
Published in The Philosophical Tradition in the Ancient and Medieval World
Keywords: Anglo-saxon, Old English, Warfare.
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From "Manifying" to "Pegasizing": Ramon Llull's Theory of Definition Between Arab and Modern Logic
Alexander Fidora
Published in The Philosophical Tradition in the Ancient and Medieval World
Keywords: Bertrand Russel, Descriptions, Ramon Llull, Theory of definition, Willard van Orman Quine.
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The Descent of Er: Ethic's philosophical foundation in Republica X
Flavia Dezzutto
Original title: El Descenso de Er: La fundamentación filosófica de la ética en República X
Published in Mirabilia 4
Keywords: Cavalry, Philosophy, Ramon Llull, Thought.
The objective of the present work is to analyze the allegorical story of the book X of the POLITEIA or Republic of Plato, known like the myth Er, in the perspective that we expose next. The "displacements", towards prohibitive regions for the mortals, by the routes of the dream or the death, have the common characteristic, from most archaic Greek Literature, to constitute spaces of revelation of certain truths. The paradigm of the ultra tomb story or the narration of the dream, as well as the literary figures that are made presents there, the topography of those regions, and the learning and testimonies that are compiled in that context, are decisive to delimit the sense field that tries a content transmitted to the revelations or knowledge. Of such way, the meaning field that appears from this analysis, sends the proposition of a political ethics, in the Greece of the IV century B.C. that makes possible to us discern the construction of a prescriptive sense, by means of rhetorical resources that acquire relevance, and they are inserted in a complex interpretative tradition, because the mentioned factors more above are the vehicle than instructs us about the doctrines that are tried to expose. These are exposed like the foundation of what is a model in the life of the mortals, in a philosophical sense, and still present an evaluation of the human institutions that comes from a strange place to the intellection of those who lives in the time; the border areas of the dream and the death.
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Some Thoughts on the Sphinx’s Symbolism
Cristóbal MACÍAS VILLALOBOS
Original title: Algunas consideraciones sobre el simbolismo de la Esfinge
Published in Emotions in the Ancient and Medieval Mediterranean World
Keywords: Femme Fatale, Oedipus, Riddle of the Sphinx, Sphinx, Symbolism.
The Greek Sphinx, probably of Egyptian origin, was known in Antiquity not only as a funeral spirit and guardian of tombs, but especially as that creature who dares to ask Oedipus a question about the nature of human identity. This dialectic encounter between hero and beast has been interpreted in many different ways, giving rise to a rich symbolic tradition that extends almost to the present day. This paper presents some key moments of this tradition in both literature and art.
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Models of Warfare in the Chronicle of D. Duarte de Meneses − Text, Context and Representation
André Luiz BERTOLI
Original title: Modelos de ação bélica na Crônica de D. Duarte de Meneses − Texto, Contexto e Representação
Published in Emotions in the Ancient and Medieval Mediterranean World
Keywords: Chronicle, Models of warlike action, North Africa, Portugal, War.
In this paper I shall present some preliminary research on the Crônica do Conde D. Duarte de Meneses, wrote by Gomes Eanes de Zurara between 1464 and1468. I will make a closer study of several chapters in the chronicle, especially chapter 44 (Riiij) and chapter 154 (CLiiij), which expound the warrior values and Christian virtues that defined the chivalric profiles of the Lusitanian nobility. The chapters selected retell exemplary deeds through which Zurara highlighted among many other types of warlike attitudes that were part of the whole relationship of medieval man to war: the obedience to the captain versus the execution of chivalric prowess. In this chronicle Gomes Eanes de Zurara tried to define an ideal of chivalry adapted to the needs of the Portuguese expansion in North Africa during the fifteenth century, which, in turn, would serve as a model for all the Portuguese warrior nobility in Africa.
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By Way of Introduction: The Emotional Domain in History
Ricardo da COSTA and Enric MALLORQUÍ-RUSCALLEDA
Original title: À guisa de introdução: as Emoções na História
Published in Emotions in the Ancient and Medieval Mediterranean World
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Absolute vision and vision of the Absolute in Nicholas of Cusa
Claudia D’AMICO
Original title: Visión absoluta y visión de lo absoluto en Nicolás de Cusa
Published in Mystic and Millenarianism in Middle Ages
Keywords: Absolute vision, Middle Ages, Mystical vision, Neoplatonism, Nicholas of Cusa.
Introducing the topic of the mystical vision, Nicholas of Cusa becomes the heir of the Neoplatonic tradition while he supposes as the foundation of such a view the same absolute vision. However, his thought is characterized by a parallelism between absolute and human vision to the point that the man can make himself visible the vision of God only by means of selfcontemplation of the dynamism of his own vision.
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Millennialism, spiritualism and ecclesiastical reform in the Middle Ages
Andrés GRAU I ARAU
Original title: Milenarismo, espiritualismo y reforma eclesiástica en la Baja Edad Media
Published in Mystic and Millenarianism in Middle Ages
Keywords: Church - Doctrine, Poverty, Reform, Spirit.
Considering several millennial doctrines, from Joachim of Fiore until Jan Hus, we seek to demonstrate that the reform of the Church depends on a particular understanding of spiritual life.
