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Meister Eckhart and the Paradisus anime intelligentis
Matteo RASCHIETTI
Original title: Meister Eckhart e o Paradisus anime intelligentis
Published in Paradise, Purgatory and Hell: the Religiosity in the Middle Ages
The Dominican master doesn't talk about Paradise in his works like a place in the future, because his point of view is not eschatological. In fact, for him there's no a way toward a future happiness, but a return to the origin. In Paradisus anime intelligentis, Eckhart defends the superiority of intellectus and God Himself is defined like it, while the esse (being) reports himself almost exclusively to creatures. The man, to realize his deep calling to be unum with God, has to come back to Him.
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Meaning and importance of Paradise description in the Introducción de los Milagros de Nuestra Señora by Gonzalo de Berceo
Lidia Raquel MIRANDA
Original title: Sentido y alcances de la descripción del Paraíso en la Introducción de los Milagros de Nuestra Señora de Gonzalo de Berceo
Published in Paradise, Purgatory and Hell: the Religiosity in the Middle Ages
The Introduction of Los Milagros de Nuestra Señora by Gonzalo de Berceo shows a locus amoenus, where the pilgrim rests, that identify with paradise (c. 14 a y b). The source in that lawn (c. 3) divides in four branches (c. 21) that evoke the rivers of paradise, and the trees that produce healthful and beautiful fruits (c. 4) represent the abundance and happiness preceding the original sin. In this context, Virgin Mary image is the redemption matrix that will repair the fault committed by Adam and Eve because of her mediation between Christ and men. The stanzas’ text by Gonzalo de Berceo we have analyzed focus in theological history of humanity of latest days, the enunciator present, which is understood starting from the originating times. So, the lawn description connotes the lost paradise and paradisiacal state which recovery is a certain possibility to men who believe and devote Virgin Mary.
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The iconography of Hell in Medieval artistic tradition
Tamara QUÍRICO
Original title: A iconografia do Inferno na tradição artística medieval
Published in Paradise, Purgatory and Hell: the Religiosity in the Middle Ages
This article shall briefly discuss the elaboration of the visual representation of Hell – both in paintings as in plays –, as well as some of the most important iconographic elements of the theme. It is intended to show how Scriptural elements were associated to others of popular origin in order to create the iconography of the theme throughout medieval period. It must be considered that Hell forms Christian imaginary, being an essential part of one of the most important questions to Christianity: man’s fate after death and after the end of the world. Absorbing concepts and traditions alien to Christian religiosity, the iconography of Hell became one of the main elements to indoctrinate the faithful, when presented as an independent theme, but especially when it was associated to the broader representation of the Last Judgment.
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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
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
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
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
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
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.
