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Some thoughts on the semantic analysis of economic and financial medieval vocabulary held by Ancelet-Dominique Netter
Josemar Machado de OLIVEIRA
Original title: Algumas reflexões sobre a análise semântica do vocabulário econômico e financeiro medieval realizada por Dominique Ancelet-Netter
Published in The Time and the Eternity in the Ancient and Medieval World
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The Aristotelian Ethics
Gustavo Ellwanger CALOVI1 and Gustavo Luis MARMENTINI
Original title: A Ética Aristotélica
Published in The Time and the Eternity in the Ancient and Medieval World
Keywords: Ethics, Happiness, Justice, Middle ground, Virtue.
The goal of this article is to demonstrate that the study of Aristotelian ethics is fundamental for the reflection of western ethics. The Aristotelian ethics is reasoned on judgment, founded on the moral judgments of good and virtuous man. In this sense his ethics is articulate from a central question: What is the supreme good of the man and, what’s the end’s direction of everything? With this, it becomes clean that the supreme good of the man is happiness, that every man should find it in all of his actions, being the happiness an activity of his soul like the reason and the virtue. To achieve the complete happiness inside the society, the justice between the individuals must be present. And so there will not be inequalities and the middle ground will be present between the parts, including what concerns the relationships.
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Conception and immortality of the soul in Plato
Evandro PEGORARO and Juliano de SOUZA
Original title: Concepção e imortalidade da alma em Platão
Published in The Time and the Eternity in the Ancient and Medieval World
Keywords: Dualism, Immortality of the soul, Phaedo, Plato, Psyche.
Plato is one of the most important thinkers for the Philosophy, with theories that elapsed centuries and they influenced countless thought currents. Her conception dualist of the reality and of the man it went source to several researches and it still generates discussions in the philosophical debates of the present time. The present article has the intention of presenting the arguments of the book Phaedo regarding the immortality of the soul. For so much, there will be an exhibition of the main points that Plato presents in your cosmological conception and of psyche, as well as the myths on the origin and destiny of the souls after the death, in order to base the understanding of the arguments in favor of the immortality.
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Presentation: VI Philosophy's Week (ISF) - Time and Eternity in the Middle Ages
Pe. Dilonei Pedro MÜLLER
Original title: Apresentação: VI Semana de Filosofia (ISF) - Tempo e Eternidade na Idade Média
Published in The Time and the Eternity in the Ancient and Medieval World
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Crusade and Spectacle. The dramatic fiction as a substitute for military action
Francesc MASSIP
Original title: Cruzada y Espectáculo. La ficción dramática como sustituta de la acción bélica (siglos XIV y XV)
Published in The Middle Ages and the Crusades
Keywords: Party, Real dramaturgy, Show, War action.
Naval shows, triumphal entrances and celebrations in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries in the Iberian Peninsula and thought as a dramatic fiction replacing military action is the intent of this article.
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Frederick Barbarossa’s last crusade on the Liber ad Honorem Augusti
Nachman FALBEL and Vinicius Cesar Dreger de ARAÚJO
Original title: A última Cruzada de Frederico Barbarossa no Liber ad Honorem Augusti
Published in The Middle Ages and the Crusades
Keywords: Byzantine Empire, Crusade, Frederick I, Holy Roman Empire.
This paper wants to study the iconography about Frederick Barbarossa’s expedition in the Third Crusade in the Liber ad Honorem Augusti of Petrus de Ebulo, composed to laudate Henry VI in late XIIth century. Thus, we looked for the comprehension of the images in various contexts: from their origins – the Norman Kingdom of Sicily – and the proper crusade of Barbarossa.
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The thought of Thomas Aquinas about military life, just war and military orders of chivalry
Ricardo da COSTA and Armando Alexandre dos SANTOS
Original title: O pensamento de Santo Tomás de Aquino (1225-1274) sobre a vida militar, a guerra justa e as ordens militares de cavalaria
Published in The Middle Ages and the Crusades
Keywords: Crusades, Military life, Religious life, chivalry.
The article briefly presents the thought of Thomas Aquinas about the legitimacy of military life and the concept of just war, and its theological justification in the context of the Crusades, to the military orders. For that, initially uses the Biblical foundation. The following briefly lists some of the saints of the Church, to discuss the thought of Aquinas about the subject.
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Crusader Coins: an introduction to their typological and stylistic analysis
María LAURA MONTEMURRO
Original title: Monedas de las Cruzadas: introducción al análisis de su iconografía y estilo
Published in The Middle Ages and the Crusades
Keywords: Coin types, Coinage, Coins, Crusader, Latin East, Numismatics.
The numismatic material offers an outstanding opportunity for iconographic studies, often neglected by art historians. For ages, coinage has not simply served as a medium of financial or commercial exchange, but also (and more interestingly for the art historian) as a vehicle that conveyed, through a wide territorial span, design and iconographic concepts of enormously influential gravitation. Crusader coins are not an exception: on the contrary, its influence in the late mediaeval coinage in regards to iconography and other devices was paramount. This paper attempts to draw attention to several aspects related to the iconography of the Crusader coins, their probable typological models and derivations, that it, its decisive influence in the later Mediaeval and early modern coinages.
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The Second Crusade and his failure in De Consideratione ad Eugenium Papam of Bernard of Clairvaux
Aurelio PASTORI RAMOS
Original title: La Segunda Cruzada y su fracaso en De Consideratione ad Eugenium Papam de Bernardo de Claraval
Published in The Middle Ages and the Crusades
Keywords: Bernard of Clairvaux, Crusade, Cîteaux, Eugene III.
Regarding the history of the Crusades, the abbot of Clairvaux is often cited as the preacher of the second Crusade. Less studied however is the analysis of the reasons of the failure of this Crusade, written by himself.
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Cynocephalus in commentario? The monstrous or savage nature of infidels as juridical argument
Alejandro MORIN
Original title: Cynocephalus in commentario? El carácter monstruoso o salvaje de los infieles como argumento jurídico
Published in The Middle Ages and the Crusades
Keywords: Innocent IV, Islam, Monstrosity, Oldradus de Ponte, Savagery.
For some years a type of historiographical approach has rendered fruits about the relation Christians-Muslims, focused on the perception/construction of alterity. This is evident in different works that analyze the medieval “images” of the unbelievers created in a hostile context. But this approach can ignore the rhetorical-juridical inscription of the description of the unbeliever in teratological or wild terms. What seems an ethnographic reference that says much about the medieval Christian ethnocentrism may in certain context operate as a juridical argument that enables one type or another of justification for the conquest on unchristians. We pose here the convenience of bringing together two subjects that medievalists had developed separately: the history of the Christian stereotypes of Saracen “monstrosity” and the history of medieval law.
