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The medieval university: a memory
Terezinha Oliveira
Original title: A universidade medieval: uma memória
Published in The educacion and secular culture in the Middle Ages
In this article, we intend to analyze in general, the origins of the medieval university, considering it as a new place, favorable to the knowledge that participated with the community interests and it was legitimally knew as a fundamental space by the laic and ecclesiastic government. In this study we have based in some studious writers who held good position studying about the medieval university as Savigny, Verger, Steenberghen e Nardi. We believe that the questions treated by the medieval theoretical and what these studying people try to put in relief don’t express only the individual worries, but inquietudes and questions that the society asked in this historic epoch. Through these questions, we look for the origins of University that in other ways is a meaning of asking for the reasons for its existence. But we see in this study a further reach, not only just a look over the medieval. Doing this, we judge to be referring questions concerned to the future too, not thinking that there are the same problems, but because we are talking about the same Institution. In this way, we will be able, at least, to verify how the wise men of that epoch built these spaces that continue being a proper and opportune space for the knowledge. With that when we study the origens of the medieval universities using the historiography and the medieval documents, we are, in the same manner, creating a new memory and a new space of knowledge, established by our problems and our daily relations.
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What is, what is done and why exists? Lulians definitions in the Book of rational soul (1296)
Ricardo da Costa
Original title: O que é, de que é feita e porque existe? Definições lulianas no Livro da Alma Racional (1296)
Published in Ramon Llull (1232-1316): the cooperation among different cultures and the inter-religious dialogue
Study about the definition of what is soul in the Book of Alma Rational by Ramon Llull.
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Dialogue inter-religious ‘real or apparent’ during the Hispanic Middle Ages: Ramon Llull (1232-1316)
Jordi Pardo Pastor
Original title: Diálogo inter-religioso ‘real ou aparente’ durante a Idade Média hispânica: Ramon Llull (1232-1316)
Published in Ramon Llull (1232-1316): the cooperation among different cultures and the inter-religious dialogue
This paper speaks about the dialogue between religions in the Middle Age. We’re taking historical methods and The Book of the Pagan and the three Wises of Ramon Llull for introducing the status quaestionis.
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Alcuin of York: About the Soul and its Dignitates
Rubén A. Peretó Rivas
Original title: Alcuino de York: Sobre el Alma y sus Dignidades
Published in Mirabilia 4
The subject of this paper is the “dignities” or soul's faculties in the Alcuin's work. First, the author settles the notion of dignitates as Alcuin understands it in all his anthropologic treatises. Then, analyzes this concept in the most importants works where the Charlemagne's friend writes about the dignitates of intellect, memory and will, studying particularly the hierarchy, function and disposition of each according to the work where they appear.
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Mistic and Paideia: Dionysius the Pseudo Areopagite
Bernardo Guadalupe S. L. Brandão
Original title: Mística e Paidéia: O Pseudo-Dionísio Areopagita
Published in Mirabilia 4
The author who presents himself as Dionysius the Areopagite, the converted by Saint Paul on the Areopagus was probably a syrian monk who wrote in the late V century. This article, dicussing the contemporany attempts to find his identity and the influence on the posterior thought, interprets his writings as an attempt to assimilate the greek philosophy and paideia by christianity, representing an important moment in the process symbolized by the Saint Paul's journey to Athens.
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Some Appointments about the Germans in Didatic Books of History
Andréia Cristina Lopes Frazão da Silva
Original title: Alguns Apontamentos Acerca dos Germanos nos Livros Didáticos de História no Brasil
Published in Mirabilia 4
Starting from the analysis of content of six didactic books of history, used in the fundamental and medium teaching in Brazil, we looked for to verify and to analyze as such works characterize the germans.
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If it's not true, what it is? Saint Augustine against the Lie
Gabriele Greggersen
Original title: Se não é Verdade, é o que? Agostinho contra a Mentira
Published in Mirabilia 4
If there are lies, which is their limit in relation to truth? Out of real problems that he was facing at the time, related the religious heresies and conflicts, Saint Augustine supplies insights on the subject in two texts “On Lie” (De Mendacium) and “Against Lie” (Contra Mendacium). There are good reasons to believe that his concern with the subject was recurrent, since the two texts are practically identical. Without pretensions to define what truth is, the bishop of Hippona applies his negative method to create a tipology of existing kinds of lies. Thus, he evidences a almost completely forgotten fact nowadays: beyond the diversity of species of lie, if something is not true, it only can be false.
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Mecia, Matilde and Beatriz: Feminine Images Reflected in Portuguese Queens from the 13 th century
Adriana Zierer
Original title: Mécia, Matilde e Beatriz: Imagens Femininas Refletidas nas Rainhas de Portugal do Século XIII
Published in Mirabilia 3 (2003)
Presentation of the importance of medieval woman by the study of portuguese cronicles from the 14th to 16th centuries about three queens: Mecia Lopes of Haro, Matilde of Bologne and Beatriz. These cronicles had been written to explain the governation of the ladies’ husbands, respectively Sancho II, king deposed of Portugal in 1245 and his brother Afonso III, responsible for the deposition and king from 1248 until 1279, year of his death. It is possible to see a little of these women in the interlineation of the texts. While Matilde and Beatriz represent the woman-merchandize, as elements of the nobility to garantee to men properties and titles – reason by which Afonso III has got married for the second time when he was already married – Mécia represents the role of the devil-woman, the Eve-sinner, who thanks to her "whitchcrafts" and "bad advises" has taken his husband to be deposed from the power.
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Severan Emperors and the Approximation with Antoninans’ Image
Ana Teresa Marques Gonçalves
Original title: Os Imperadores Severos e a Aproximação com as Imagens dos Antonino
Published in Mirabilia 3 (2003)
The objective of this article is to analyse the approximation of the Severan Emperors with the images utilized for the Antoninan rulers, using the informations of the Herodian, Cassius Dio, Sextus Aurelius Victor, Flavius Eutropius’ books, the Historia Augusta, Epitome de Caesaribus, inscriptions and coins.
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Visio et amor Dei: Nicholas of Cusa (d. 1464) and John of the Cross (1542-1591)
Prof. Dr. Raúl Gutiérrez
Original title: Visio et Amor dei - Nicolás de Cusa y Juan de la Cruz
Published in Expressing the Divine: Language, Art and Mysticism
In the light of Nicholas of Cusa s idea that the diverse finite modes of understanding God are founded in the Absolute itself, and thus constitute modes by which the Absolute sees itself, the author interprets the distinction between the beginners , the advanced and the perfect as diverse modes of understanding oneself, God and the world, thus confirming that John of the Cross has a clear awareness of the mediating and constitutive function which the subject has with respect to reality.
