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1. Medieval Significances of the Apple: Forbidden Fruit, Source of the kwowledge, Paradisiac Island

   Adriana Zierer

   Original title: Significados medievais da maçã: fruto proibido, fonte do conhecimento, ilha Paradisíaca

   Published in Mirabilia 1

   Keywords: Adan, Apple, Eva, Geoffrey de Monmouth, Medieval Mithology, celts...

   Dans ce travail nous cherchons d’analyser quelques symbologies de la pomme. Bien que d’autres fruits soient associées au peché originel, comme le figue et la raissin, depuis le 13ème siecle la pomme est devenu la principal representation de la transgression d’Adam et Eve en Éden. L’ingestion du fruit interdit a signifié la possibilité de l’homme d’atteindre la conaissance par le libre arbitre, mais c’est a conduit aussi à la suffrance (l’expulsion du divine endroit, la besoin du travail et les douleurs du accouchment). Dans autres cultures, comme la germanique, pour obtenir la sagesse le dieu Wotan a abdiqué de la vision d’un de ses yeaux et est demeuré neuf jours acrochée à l’arbre Ygddrasil, sans boir ou manger. Comme on croyait que la conaissance venait d’Aût, une métaphore était l’arbor inversa, dont les racines sont dans le ciel et Christ est consideré le plus beau fruit envoyée par le ciel (Dieu) à la terre (Marie). Une autre symbolisme de la pomme, c’est la Insula Pomorum, royaume de l’Autre Monde plein d’abundance et plaisirs, decrit par Geoffroy de Monmouth au 12ème siècle comme un endroit où, à l’envers de gramme, le soleil était couvert par pommes. Dans la mythologie celtique, ce fruit represente la magie, l’imortalité et la conaissance. Pour les médiévaux, c’était confortant le signification de la pomme comme l’Île du Bienaventureux, qui possibilitait l’access des individus à un monde semblable au paradis. Mais par l’avis de l’ Église seulement après la mort et de la passage par le purgatoire, les individus purifiés pouvaient aspirer à la felicité éternelle.

2. The Relationship between Divinity and Secular Power on Laconian Black-Figure Vases in the 6th Century B.C.

   José Francisco de Moura

   Original title: Vínculos entre divindade e poder secular nos vasos de figuras negras da Lacônia no século VI a.C.

   Published in Expressing the Divine: Language, Art and Mysticism

   Keywords: Gods, Kings, Politic, Sparta, power.

   This article wants to examine the divine images on Laconian black-figure vases with regard to the iconography in other types of Laconian materials, thus hoping to understand their politico-social function in the context of the Spartan society of the 6th century b.C.

3. The royal voice into the Vita Wilfrithi of Eddius Stephanus

   Alberto ASLA

   Original title: La voz real en la Vita Wilfrithi de Eddius Stephanus

   Published in Senses and sensibilities in classical and medieval worlds

   Keywords: Eddius Stephanus, King, Vita Whilfrithi, Voice.

   The history of Anglo-Saxon England is a fruitful field of research for Spanish-speaking historiography, even so, and despite having some works linked to philology and theology, for history is almost nil. In this sense, our work, although small, aims to account for the wealth of this period through an absolutely different and specific approach: history of the senses. And from there, in order to find a medieval soundscape is that our goal will be to trace and analyze the royal “voice” from the dispute between the two traditions of Christianity existing during the seventh century and later its subsequent establishment as a religio licitas.

4. The Epigraphic layout in the Pompeian honorary inscription of Marcus Holconius Rufus

   Carlos Alberto SERTÃ

   Original title: A Diagramação Epigráfica na inscrição honorária pompeiana de Marcus Holconius Rufus

   Published in Aristocracy and nobility in the Ancient and Medieval World

   Keywords: Epigraphy, Pompeii, lapidaries, ordering.

   This paper examines the work of the lapidaries’ ordering on the epigraph of Marcus Marcus Holconius Rufus in Pompeii.

5. The One Beyond Being: the Abrogation of Otherness in Meister Eckhart

   Leandro BERTONCELLO

   Original title: O Uno além do Ser: a ab-rogação da alteridade em Meister Eckhart

   Published in The Kingdom of the Spirit

   Keywords: Meister Eckhart, Negatio negationis, Non-dualism.

   This article examines the concept of the abrogation of otherness in Meister Eckhart, with emphasis on his doctrine of the union between the human soul and the One, a reality that transcends being. Through the analysis of texts and sermons by the Rhenish mystic, it explores how the soul can overcome all distinctions and attain unity with God through the negation of negation (negatio negationis). The study discusses the transcendence of the One beyond being, the role of the ground of the soul (Grunde der Seele) as the locus of this union, and the dialectic between detachment and love for others. It concludes that abrogation does not imply contempt for the world but rather a new way of experiencing the divine in all creatures.

6. The transcendence of War and Peace by the spiritual sense of Christian Theology

   Eirini ARTEMI

   Published in The Kingdom of the Spirit

   Keywords: Demons, Passions Christian Teaching, Peace, Theosis, War.

   “War” and “peace” are subject to theological, philosophical, moral, and political construction. In Christian theology, “war” and “peace” have to do with the relations of people with God, with themselves and with the other people in every place of this earth. The transcendence of the war and peace has literal and spiritual meaning. In the Christian view of peace, it is necessary to relate to justice and includes the dimensions of inner peace or a spiritual peace. This understanding is different from a more secular outlook means peace at the level of exterior dimensions –outer dimension–. As far as the word “war” can mean spiritual struggling with our passions or with the demons and with the other people in our daily life. The teachings on peace and on war, deriving from the sacred texts of Christianity, effectively guide adherents to attain inner peace, to extend it outwardly and to try to get rid of the passions which are cause of war. The latter relates to our passions and sins.

7. A New Approach to the Biography of Pedro Jiménez de Samper, a Knight Deployed in the Border in the Service of Pedro IV of Aragon (ca. 1314-1364)

   Mario LAFUENTE GÓMEZ

   Original title: Una nueva aproximación a la biografía de Pedro Jiménez de Samper, un caballero de frontera al servicio de Pedro IV de Aragón (ca. 1314-1364)

   Published in Returning to Eden

   Keywords: 14th Century, Crown of Aragon, Military History, Nobility, Peter IV of Aragon, Social History, War.

   Pedro Jiménez de Samper was a prominent member of the Aragon’s middle nobility, who lived during the central decades of the 14th century and developed an intense military career in the service of King Peter IV of Aragon, the Ceremonious. In this text, we offer a revised and expanded version of his biography, which we first published in 2008 in this journal’s number 8. The current version preserves the original text while incorporating new content, which refers to all the stages of Samper’s life and allows us to considerably widen the repertoire of issues previously addressed. Among the most important new features presented here are the location of his family origins, the identification of his clientele networks and the dating of his death. The result is a case study that provides an accurate illustration of the relationship between aristocracy and war in the Crown of Aragon in this period of the late Middle Ages.

8. To be here and now. Study of the time and the space in the Viatge al Purgatori nomenat de Sant Patrici written by Ramon de Perellós i de Roda (c. 1350-1424)

   Héctor ALAMINOS RAMIRO

   Original title: Ser aquí y ahora. Estudio del tiempo y del espacio en el Viatge al Purgatori nomenat de Sant Patrici de Ramon de Perellós i de Roda (c. 1350-1424)

   Published in Returning to Eden

   Keywords: Medieval Time-Space, Purgatory, Ramon de Perellós.

   This paper analyzes the temporal and spatial dimensions of the work of Ramon de Perellós referred to his journey to Saint Patrick’s Purgatory. Firstly, real, and imaginary-marvellous spheres are studied by separated to detach its meanings. Afterwards its contents are synthesized to obtain a panoramic view. Finally, these ideas are extrapolated to its historical context. By doing so, some conclusions are developed with the aim of connecting this work with the general transformations that take place in the Christian society of the medieval Western Europe.

9. The play of divine beauty: Bronzino’s decoration of the Chapel of Eleonora in the Palazzo Vecchio (1541-1543)

   Thainan Noronha de ANDRADE

   Published in Games from Antiquity to Baroque

   Keywords: Agnolo Bronzino, Chapel of Eleonora, Neoplatonism.

   Starting in 1540, Cosimo I de' Medici (1519-1574) commissioned a series of structural and decorative reforms in the old seat of the Republic of Florence, the Palazzo della Signoria, transforming it into the official residence of his principato. One of the first artistic commissions ordered by the duke was the chapel dedicated to his wife, Eleonora de Toledo (1522-1562), decorated in fresco by Agnolo Bronzino (1503-1572) between 1541 and 1543. This chapel stands out as one of the earliest and most significant examples of the Florentine aesthetic language from the mid-16th century. Resulted from a series of artistic and theoretical developments that took place in the first half of the century, it is characterized by highly symbolic expressiveness whose content manifests in a polysemic manner, simultaneously incorporating various levels of meaning, including political, religious, and philosophical elements. In this sense, the present study analyzes the respective pictorial cycle considering the Neoplatonic aesthetic speculations circulating within Italian and Florentine culture, influencing contemporary conceptions of the nature of artistic beauty and its appreciation, linking this process to a broader attitude that characterized Medici patronage.

10. At the Dawn of Modernity. Music and Painting in the time of Afonso V (1396-1458), the Magnanimous

    Ricardo da COSTA; Alexandre Emerick NEVES; Antonio Celso RIBEIRO

    Original title: Na Alvorada da Modernidade. Música e Pintura no tempo de Afonso V (1396-1458), o Magnânimo

    Published in Games from Antiquity to Baroque

    Keywords: Afonso the Magnanimous, Crown of Aragon, Hispano-Flemish Art, Renaissance Music.

    Estudo da música renascentista e da pintura hispano-flamenga da corte napolitana da Coroa de Aragão durante o reinado de Afonso V, o Magnânimo (1396-1458) à época do Poemário (Dictats) de Ausiàs March (c.1397-1459).