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Ramon Llull and the Muslims: a difficult propose for conversion
Gabriel ENSENYAT PUJOL
Original title: La difícil proposta lul·liana per a la conversió dels musulmans
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Keywords: Dialogue, Force, Muslims, Ramon Llull, conversion.
Although Ramon Llull has a knowledge of Islam, different factors impossibilities the success of the mission. Some factors were interiors of Christianity and another were different causes: the difficulty of the subject he chose, the psychological restraints, the opposition of Islamic public power, the scarce predisposition to dialogue of Muslim people and, finally, the impossibility to impose a religion without using force.
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An Approach to the Sources of Jaume Ramon Vila’s Dietari
Arantxa LLÀCER MARTORELL
Original title: Aproximació a les fonts del Dietari de Jaume Ramon Vila (AHCB, ms. b-100)
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Keywords: Barcelona, Diary, Jaume Ramon Vila, Source.
This article studies the figure of the historian and heraldist Jaume Ramon Vila through the analysis of one of his unpublished works, a diary that narrates events that belong to the years 1596-1601. The author, a well-known writer within the field of early modern Catalan studies, designed his diary as a commentary on the most important events that took place in the city of Barcelona and the Principality of Catalonia. Vila used all his historiographic knowledge in the production of his diary and the result if a text based on the principle of truthfulness that makes use of his personal notes and documentary sources to support his assertions. The study of the sources and the diary provide us with a better understanding of the period and of an author somewhat underrated by previous scholars.
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Alfons de Borja i Roderic de Borja According to Alfons the Magnanimous’s Crònica i diatari del capellà
J. EMILI ROIG
Original title: Alfons de Borja i Roderic de Borja segons la Crònica i dietari del capellà d’Alfons el Magnànim
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Keywords: Alexandre VI, Alfons de Borja, Borja, Calixt III, Diary, Roderic de Borja, Valence.
Medieval diaries are a valuable source of knowledge about daily occurrences that their author wanted to record. The Dietari del capellà d’Alfons el Magnànim is a remarkable source for the lives of two characters thyat belonged to the Borja/Borgia family, Alfons de Borja and Roderic de Borja (Popes Callistus III and Alexander VI respectively).
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The Arbitral Sentence Regarding Walls and Valleys from 1406. Study and Edition
Agustí CAMPOS PERALES
Original title: La sentència arbitral de murs i valls del 1406. Estudi i edició
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Keywords: Edició, Junta de Murs i Valls, Manuscrit, Medieval, Urbanisme.
Public urbanism during the late middle ages in Valencia was regulated by the activity of the Jurats, their executive power, and the Junta de Murs i Valls, an institution created in 1358 to manage the constructions of walls, moats or roads inside the city’s boundaries. This institution (the Junta), however, was not provided with a legal basis until 1406 when an arbitral sentence between the city of Valencia and the military estate was promulgated. From this agreement or sentence, an edition of which is included in this article, we can know the legal and administrative development of this institution as well details on construction activities in medieval Valencia.
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The fragilities of friar Pere Bolluga
Albert TOLDRÀ I VILARDELL
Original title: Les fragilitats de fra Pere Bolulla
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Keywords: History of Church, History of sexuality, History of women, Inquisition, Sexual sollicitatio in confession.
Sexual sollicitatio in confession is a great sin, where the priest –usually a monk, and often Franciscan– does sexual actions, words or propositions to the penitent, man or woman. It’s serious because supposes an sacrilegious use of the sacrament of penitence, and is so assimilated to heresy, and is then competency of Inquisition, who will use this power like a control instrument over priests, secular and monasterial. In this communication we will see a late case, that of Capuchin monk fr. Pere Bolulla, who acts in Xàtiva, Benidorm and Callosa d’en Sarrià.
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Researching in the margins and reading between the lines
Vicent Josep ESCARTÍ
Original title: Investigar als marges i llegir entre línies
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Ramon Llull’s proposals to the Council of Vienne (1311-1312). A synthesis of Christian prehumanism
Manuel ORTUÑO ARREGUI
Original title: Las propuestas de Ramon Llull al Concilio de Vienne (1311-1312). Una síntesis del prehumanismo Cristiano
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Keywords: Christian, Council Vienne, Humanism, Ramon Llull.
The Council of Vienne (1311-12) proposed to make proposals around the crusade. In this context, Ramon Llull made a series of proposals before his convocation, which were synthesized in the memorial Petitio in concilio generali [sc. Vienne] ad acquirendam terram sanctam (1311). They can be summarized in three thematic nuclei: the foundation of chairs for the teaching of oriental languages; the reform of the military orders to conquer the Holy Land, and, finally, the defense of the nature of the human person against Averroism that he considered an error. Of all these proposals, he succeeded in achieving the first and thus endowed European universities with the study of oriental languages for the later missionary enterprise. Without a doubt, a fundamental element in the synthesis of prehumanist thought that he promulgated until his last days of life as an influential man in the thought of the western Mediterranean and Europe.
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An approach to the textual transmission of Martí de Troppau's Chronicon pontificum et imperatorum in the anonymous Crònica universal de 1427
Jacob MOMPÓ NAVARRO
Original title: Aproximació a la transmissió textual del Chronicon pontificum et imperatorum, de Martí de Troppau, en l’anònim Crònica universal de 1427
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Keywords: Chronicles, Historiography, Textual Transmission, Universal History.
The Chronicon Pontificum et Imperatorum by Martí de Troppau is, along with the Història Escolàstica by Pere Comestor and the Speculum historiale by Vicenç de Beauvais, one of the main sources used by the compiler of the Crònica universal de 1427. The Chronicon will be referred to three different times by the author himself and will thus give rise to three different families in the textual transmission of Martí de Troppau's work, which L. Weiland identifies with letters A, B and C. In this work we provide some evidence that allows us to assume that the version of the Chronicon from which the author of the Crònica de 1427 compiled came, ultimately, from a thirteenth-century manuscript that depended on the A family, but with enough particularity to start a new subfamily, the A*.
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Bernat Metge, moralist: the degraded woman, exponent of the hatred and human suffering in his time
Júlia BUTINYÀ
Original title: Bernat Metge, moralista: la dona degradada, exponent de l’odi i del mal humà en el seu temps
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Keywords: Bernat Metge, Catalan Literature, Humanism, Middle Ages, Moral.
Metge offers a new vision of women and their entity, which shifts the medieval as a result of contempt and, at the same time, is his prototypes of hatred. To this end, he portrays the most disgusting ad degrades version, which comes from the Corbaccio, followed by an exquisite gallery of women, inspired by classics. In fact, it is a moral reform, which pictured with the rejection of the misogyny and of the petrarquesque ethics towards love, which was the deformation of the agustinian and confirmed the traditional morality.
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Pilgrimage Processions, Religious Sensibilities and Piety in the City of Acre in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem
Shlomo LOTAN
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Keywords: Acre, Crusades, Hospitallers, Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem, Military Orders, Pilgrimage, Templars, Teutonic Order.
After the fall of Jerusalem in 1187, Acre became the formal capital of the Crusader Kingdom. During the 13th century, it became a pilgrimage site for many Christian pilgrims, who enriched the city with their religious ceremonies. Such as a procession called the Pardon d'Acre, which contributed greatly to our understanding of the religious places and military compounds in Frankish Acre. In this essay, I link the religious ceremonies that took place in Acre with the passages among the locations mentioned therein. All these contributed to the revival of the historical and religious space in medieval Acre.
