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The late medieval Castilian nobility and the king: building and redistribution of power
Cecilia DEVIA
Original title: La nobleza castellana bajomedieval y el rey: construcción y redistribución del poder
Published in Aristocracy and nobility in the Ancient and Medieval World
Keywords: Chronicles, King, Middle Ages, Nobility, Violence.
It discusses the relationships between the nobility and the king in the Chronicle of King Don Pedro by Pero Lopez de Ayala, in light of the model reproductive strategies of the dynastic State developed by Pierre Bourdieu. Emphasis is placed on the rational use of violence that govern the conduct of both the king and the nobles, especially in construction and redistribution of power.
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Oriental Christianity: the Ethiopian Church in the Middle Ages
Lincoln Etchebéhère JUNIOR and Thiago Pereira de Sousa LEPINSKI
Original title: Cristandade Oriental: a Igreja Etíope na Idade Média
Published in Aristocracy and nobility in the Ancient and Medieval World
Keywords: Ethiopia, Ethiopic Church, Monophisism, Solomon Tradition.
The goal of the present communication is to present a study about the Copt Church of Ethiopia, that according to tradition, was born on apostolic times, with Jewish and monophisist influences. Still according to Ethiopic national traditions, this Christian’s would already have found a monotheist people, due to the conversion of the Queen of Sabbath to the mosaic faith, after its biblical meeting with King Solomon. The descendants of Solomon and the Queen of Sabbath would have given origin to the Solomon dynasty. The sovereign of this dynasty was, in the sixteenth century, identified as the legendary Priest John of India.
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The two bodies of the king in Anglo-Saxon England
Nachman FALBEL and Elton O. S. MEDEIROS
Original title: Os dois corpos do rei na Inglaterra Anglo-Saxônica
Published in Aristocracy and nobility in the Ancient and Medieval World
Keywords: Anglo-Saxon England, Beowulf, Royalty, Society.
Since the beginnings of the medieval period, one of the most prominent characters in this kind of society is the king. His presence is extremely important to the social harmony, hence the king is not only the ruler of the people, but also represents the godly powers that manifest through him. So, we will show how this king dual-figure is represented in Anglo-Saxon literature, not as just a heroic symbol of war, but as the guardian of his folk e keeper of peace.
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The passions in Plato's The Republic and Ion: possibilities of philosophical inquiry
Jan G. J. TER REEGEN and Ana Alice MENESCAL
Original title: As paixões em A República e Íon de Platão: possibilidades do pensar filosófico
Published in Aristocracy and nobility in the Ancient and Medieval World
Keywords: Aristocracy, Ion, Passions, Plato, Republic.
This article analyzes Plato's arguments regarding passions. In Ion, Plato proposes that passions are something poetic, beautiful and necessary to man, in The Republic something that takes man away from the path of reason, making him lose his strength. That is why the philosopher defends the banishment of poets from his republic. It is worth noting that The Republic is one of the texts that best reflects the aristocratic origin of Plato. The object of analysis proposed here are the passions in two dialogues: a Socratic (Ion) one and another of the philosopher’s maturity (The Republic).
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Formation, obedience and humanism: considerations about the Middle Ages child education in the Monodies of abbot Guibert of Nogent (XII century)
Carlile Lanzieri Júnior
Original title: Formação, obediência e humanismo: considerações sobre a educação infantil medieval nas Monodies do abade Guiberto de Nogent (séc. XII)
Published in The educacion and secular culture in the Middle Ages
Keywords: Guibert of Nogent, medieval education, monasticism.
In 1115, the benedictine abbot Guibert of Nogent (1055-1125) concluded his book of personal memories, usually called De vita sua by modern authors. Shared in three parts, this book calls attention because the absolutely personal aspect of its first part. In it, Guibert wrote very much about the several events that happened in his infancy and part of his adulthood. Among some of then, we will analyze in this article those in which the abbot remembered the details about the education that he received when he was a boy and in the early years in which he lived in a monastery. An education signed by the hardness, but also the worring with the moral and academic formation of the individual too, important marks of the medieval benedictine pedagogy monastic.
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The apocryphal texts in the Christian iconography
Ofelia Manzi and Patricia Grau-Dieckmann
Original title: Los textos apócrifos en la iconografía Cristiana
Published in The educacion and secular culture in the Middle Ages
Keywords: Apocrypha, Art, Canonical, Christianity, Iconography.
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The religious imagination in Ramon Llull: a theory of contemplative oration
Amador Vega
Original title: La imaginación religiosa en Ramon Llull: una teoria de la oración contemplativa
Published in Ramon Llull (1232-1316): the cooperation among different cultures and the inter-religious dialogue
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Relations of power and juridical norms: the council decrees of Calahorra e La Calzada diocese’s under the bishop of D. Almoravid (1287-1300)
Marcelo Pereira Lima
Original title: Relações de poder e normas jurídicas: os decretos conciliares da diocese de Calahorra e La Calzada sob o bispado de D. Almoravid (1287-1300)
Published in Ramon Llull (1232-1316): the cooperation among different cultures and the inter-religious dialogue
Keywords: Calahorra and La Calzada, D. Almoravid, Jews, clergy, discourse, juridical norms, power relations.
This paper speaks about the juridical discourses present in the sinodal decrets of Calahorra and La Calzada in the end of XIII th century. The objective of our work is to stress the relations between the episcopal institutions and their legislative practices. In the historical and political perspective, we have chosen a specific group of tematics: the clerical reformation and the question of their ordination; the sacramental life; the norms about the Jewish Communities; and, finally, the determinations about beneficial matter of the clergy.
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Medieval Paradises – Tipology of the Places of Reward in the Final Middle Ages
Paulo Roberto Soares de Deus
Original title: Paraísos Medievais – esboço para uma tipologia dos lugares de recompensa dos justos no final da Idade Média
Published in Mirabilia 4
Keywords: Culture, Paradise, Types.
The aim of this article is to consider a set of minimum types to the places assigned for the word Paradise at the end of the Middle Ages. It is not intended to be exhausting nor definitive, after all, the Paradise was a symbol and, as such, preserved great ambiguity in its possible meanings. Paradise's contours could not be so clear since it should to allow the projections of diverse desires and anxieties, deriving of the different cultural strata of that age. However, a tripartite structure, which comes along with the time flow, can be followed.
