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The Hispano-Islamisms of Juan Guas. The fabrication of a Historiographical Stereotype
Roberto GONZÁLEZ RAMOS
Original title: The Hispano-Islamisms of Juan Guas. The fabrication of a Historiographical Stereotype
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Keywords: Historiographical nationalism, Historiography, Islamic influence, Juan Guas, Late Gothic Architecture.
Formalist currents tinged with nationalism in twentieth century historiography developed the idea of Toledo’s late Gothic architecture being imbued with elements and features from Hispano-Islamic architecture, especially in the case of one of its leading lights, the architect Juan Guas. This gave rise to descriptions of a specific, hispanicized style, which had modified its essentially Northern European characteristics. This essay analyses the gradual construction of the aforementioned historiographical viewpoint, its champions, and their arguments and methodological approach. The process can then be reconstructed, with a view to revisiting it and critically analysing underlying assumptions.
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Goodness, Justice and Truth. Three Marian virtues in the Cantigas de Santa Maria and in the Book of Santa Maria, by Ramon Llull
Ricardo da COSTA, Bárbara DANTAS
Original title: Bondade, Justiça e Verdade. Três virtudes marianas nas Cantigas de Santa Maria e no Livro de Santa Maria, de Ramon Llull
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Keywords: Alfonso X, Cantigas de Santa Maria, Enluminures, Libre de Sancta Maria, Medieval Art, Ramon Llull.
The Cantigas de Santa Maria is a cultural landmark in medieval Spain. This magnific work of the thirteenth century is composed of 420 praises and narratives of miracles of the Virgin Mary and written in galician-portuguese language. Furthermore, have hundreds of miniatures. Sponsored by King Alfonso X (1221-1284), is not great only for its artistic value, but, specially, for its historical value. Each song registry differents aspects of medieval sensibility. Thus, the objective of this study is to make a comparative analysis (textual and imagistic) of three philosophical-theological virtues of the Virgin Mary – Goodness, Truth and Justice – present in the praise 140 of the Cantigas de Santa María and in the Libre de Sancta Maria (c. 1290) from the Catalan philosopher Ramon Llull (1232-1316), to analyze the symbolic structures from marian spirituality, typical religious and artistic manifestation of the thirteenth century in the Medieval West.
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The Choir Books of the monastery of St. Benedict of Cátris: codicological analyses of an Antiphonarium
Antónia Fialho CONDE, Isabel Maria Botelho de Gusmão Dias Sarreira Cid da SILVA
Original title: Os Livros de Coro do mosteiro cisterciense de S. Bento de Cástris: análise codicológica de um Antifonário
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Keywords: Ancient bookmaking, Ancient religious libraries, Antiphonarium, Cistercian feminine Monastery.
Study of an Antiphonarium (materials, structure, techniques, pagination, decorated alphabets, biding) trying to identify its main characteristics to be possible to connect it to other books of the same type (Choir Books) belonging to the ancient library of the Cistercian Monastery of S. Bento de Cástris of the city of Évora, Portugal.
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The doctrine of Jacob of Serugh on conceptio per aurem as a possible literary source in medieval iconography of The Annunciation
José María SALVADOR GONZÁLEZ
Original title: La doctrina de Jacob de Sarug sobre la conceptio per aurem como posible fuente literaria en la iconografía medieval de La Anunciación
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Keywords: Conceptio per aurem, Iconography, Jacob of Serugh, Mariology, Medieval Art, Patristics, The Annunciation, Theology.
This paper focuses the attention on the possible influence that the thinking of the Syriac theologian Jacob of Serugh on conceptio per aurem might have had on late medieval representations of the Annunciation. Therefore, after explaining the doctrine of this Oriental thinker by explaining many passages of his writings, ten pictorial images of this Marian theme in which you could glimpse such influence are analyzed. While underlining the prestige of this great writer of Serugh and the wide dissemination of his works during the Middle Ages, the author also emphasizes that the interpretation given in this paper is only a mere conjecture that, even if it looks plausible, is susceptible of enrichment, correction and even rejection, if reliable documentary evidence so require.
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Ars longa, vita brevis: the History of Art in the long term
José María SALVADOR GONZÁLEZ, Matheus Corassa da SILVA
Original title: Ars longa, vita brevis: a História da Arte na longa duração
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Presentation: The Architecture in the Cantigas de Santa María
José María SALVADOR GONZÁLEZ; Matheus Corassa da SILVA
Original title: Apresentação: A Arquitetura nas Cantigas de Santa María
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The role of incarnation in the Republic: between political seduction and theophanic vision
Nicolas HUMPHRIS
Original title: La fonction d’incarnation dans la République : entre séduction politique et vision théophanique
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Keywords: De Gaulle, Imitation of Christ, Incarnation of power, Judge of children, Membership and civility, Middle Ages, Political charisma, Sacred royalty.
There is, in the state power of the contemporary French Republic, an archaic institution which continues incognito, the “function of incarnation”. This charismatic function is an institutional device developed at the dawn of our civilization (4th-10th centuries) to arouse, as part of an enterprise of seduction, the free adherence of subjects to public authority by borrowing the model of Christ mediator whose human presence and the flesh irresistibly and subliminally attract men to the invisible God. Today, those who exercise the function of incarnation in the Republic also secretly arouse the adhesion of men to the invisible and transcendent entity that is the State, in the manner of the “seducer” Christ. Whether we are believers or atheists, we all depend, for our attachment to the Republic, on this Christ-like power of seduction of the leader, and therefore, indirectly, of a certain Christ, mysteriously present in his earthly imitator. Are we the prisoners of the subliminal grip of this hidden God? To prevent the said political seduction from being a place of non-freedom, it is necessary to become aware of it, and, even more, to disocccult this Christ who appears here against all expectations, while he is both ignored by the State. and by the Church. It is important to rediscover the capacity for theophanic perception which was from the outset intimately associated with the function of incarnation, to lift the gaze in order to come to perceive the God hidden in the secularized nation state.
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The Kingdom of God in Church Fathers in the 4th century
Eirini ARTEMI
Original title: The Kingdom of God in Church Fathers in the 4th century
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Keywords: Ambrose of Milan, Divine Beauty, Gregory of Nyssa, Jesus Christ, John Chrysostom, Kingdom of God, Lord’s Prayer.
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Femininity in tension. Iconographic itineraries from Tellus to the woman on the beast of the Turin Beatus (12th century)
Nadia Mariana CONSIGLIERI
Original title: Lo femenino en tensión. Recorridos iconográficos de Tellus a la mujer sobre la bestia del Beato de Turín (siglo XII)
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Keywords: Greco-Roman formulas, Lust, Manticore, Tellus, The Prostitute of Babylon and the beast, Turin Beatus.
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The Annunciation as the locus of return of the figured logos
Alexandre Emerick NEVES
Original title: A Anunciação como o locus de retorno do logos figurado
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Keywords: Annunciation, Medieval aesthetics, Modes of figuring the body, Movement, Place, Stoicism, Time.
The approximation of philosophical thought with theological precepts has brought about the conciliation of the presuppositions of Greco-Roman culture with Christian mysticism, of the concepts erected by rationalism with what is supposed divinely revealed, which seems to intuit the dimension of this event so represented in medieval aesthetics and Renaissance, namely, the annunciation of the logos taken as the divine virtue in the way of being fully revealed and manifested in the pictorial locus. More than a religious motif, it is the proclamation of a thought based on Aristotelian metaphysics, modeled on Stoicism and refined by Augustine and Thomas Aquinas, manifested in medieval aesthetics, especially in the retable of Simone Martini. The mystery of the incarnation intuits the convergence of the suprasensible with the world of appearances. Anticipated by the figuration of the Word announced, it presupposes the ontological status of origin and the speculative treatment of time, movement and place, from a comparative exercise between the descriptive aspects of the biblical narrative and its return figured in artistic beauty.
