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A bibliometric study of the scientific production of Philoctetes during the period 1961 to 2015. An approximation of the educational values involved
Alejandro LORENZO-LLEDÓ
Original title: Estudio bibliométrico de la producción científica sobre Filoctetes durante el periodo de 1961 a 2015. Aproximación a los valores educativos implicados
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Keywords: Blibliometric analysis, Greek mythology, Philoctetes, Sophocles.
The legend of Philoctetes has some main features, with some variations, that are repeated in the mythological tradition: hero of Greek mythology, who was excluded and abandoned on the island of Lemnos and then returned to the conquest of Troy. This study has focused on the bibliometric analysis of the scientific literature on the figure of Philoctetes during the period 1961-2015.The aim was to describe and characterize the state of the scientific literature on this subject for use in teaching posible educational value of myth. Using eight specific bibliometric indicators, we have formed a final sample that shows 124 documents, identified as articles and obtained in the database Web of Science. According to results, it has been shown, on the one hand, poor and irregular scientific production of 124 articles over 54 years, with a range from two to eight articles in the 10 most productive journals. The majority are from Anglo-Saxon countries and authorship of a single author. On the other hand, it has been found that the most productive topic has been Philoctetes Sophocles tragedy. It has also been approached from other research areas such as education, medicine, psychology, psychiatry, sociology and religion. The findings conclude that it is a little researched topic and, given the diversity of areas that have been treated, it has a multidisciplinary potential to continue in their study and application to education.
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The Sapientia Christiana and the Analogy of the Liberal Arts in a Sermon of Saint Vincent Ferrer (1350-1419)
Gustavo Cambraia FRANCO, Ricardo da COSTA
Original title: A sapientia christiana e a analogia das artes liberais em um Sermão de São Vicente Ferrer (1350-1419)
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Keywords: Analogical Thinking, Medieval Science, Medieval Sermon, Saint Vincent Ferrer, liberal arts.
This article contains an exposition and an analysis on the theme of the Liberal Arts in a sermon of Saint Vincent Ferrer, renowned Dominican Valencian preacher during the passage between the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. We intend to show that the Liberal Arts are addressed by the sermonist within the traditional theoretical scope of classification of sciences in the medieval period, as branches of knowledge for the service of the higher science, Theology, to avail the scholastic dictum philosophia ancilla theologiae. In his exposition, the author follows the medieval didactic principles of analogical thinking, the figurative hermeneutics and the allegorical exegesis of the Bible, by which he ensnares the meanings and properties of each science or Liberal Art, namely Grammar, Logic and Rhetoric, the Trivium sciences, and Music, Arithmetic, Geometry and Astrology, Quadrivium sciences, in a web of metaphorical and analogical relations aimed, at the end, to confer spiritual, religious and moral meaning and utility to each of them, as well as subordinate them to the royal domain of the sapientia christiana.
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The Kingdom of Valence as a myth in the Moors’ Romances of the Philippines
Isaac DONOSO
Original title: El Regne de València, un mite dins els Romanços de moros de les Filipines
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Keywords: Al-Andalus, Asia, Kingdom of Valencia, Moors’ Romances, Philippine Literature.
This work analyzes the development of Philippine Metrical Romances and its Hispanic influences in both theatre («Moros y Cristianos») and epics (Books of Chivalry) in tracing the materialization of the Exotic. Specifically, it will focus on how an exotic topic like the Kingdom of Valencia is presented, recollecting the sources, characters and features along the Philippine corpus. At the end, the purpose will be to trace the literary elegy for the fall of Valencia from the Orient of al-Andalus to the Orient of Asia.
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The Archives of the Crown of Aragon, philological treasure for the juridical linguistic studies
Cristina CARVALHO
Original title: Les Archives de la Couronne d’Aragon, trésor philologique à exploiter par l’approche linguistique juridique
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Keywords: Archives, Legal, Linguistics, Methodology, Research.
The Aragon Crown Archives gather historical documentary resources that constitute excellent corpus for legal linguistics research. We will strengthen this statement by showing, on the one hand, the methodology to follow in order to unearth singular collections and, on the other hand, by demonstrating why these Archive’s historical documentary resources are a clear referent for linguistics approach.
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Representations of the ideal city in the imaginary of the medieval Islam
Mª Florencia FERNÁNDEZ LLAMAS
Original title: Representaciones de la ciudad ideal en el imaginario del islam medieval
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Keywords: Al-Fārābī, Ibn Rušd, Islamic cities, Koran.
Analysis of the concept and the place of cities in the Islamic cultural sphere, starting with the analysis of city as it’s mentioned in the Quran, as the place where humans live in a society, generally corrupt, followed by several mentions of legendary cities cited in the literature, and finishing with the mention of ideals of city elaborated by Islamic philosophers (Ibn Rušd, Al-Fārābī, etc.).
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Three carmesinas real and one fictional. The interest in the dialogue between History and Literature for the interpretation of Tirant lo Blanc
Abel SOLER
Original title: Tres Carmesines reals i una de ficció. Interés del diàleg entre Història i Literatura per a la interpretació de Tirant lo Blanc
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Keywords: Carmesina, Chivalric novel, Jaume de Vilaragut, Joanot Martorell, Tirant lo Blanc.
This article focuses on the historical Valencian knight and baron Jaume de Vilaragut (+ca. 1464), a friend from chilhood of Joanot Martorell, a devout reader of chivalric and Arthurian literature as well as of romances of materia Trojana. He married a member of the Martorell family, became a corsary and defender of Rhodes, was a prisoner of the Great Caramany and of the sultan of Babylon. He also resided at Naples together with the author of Tirant lo Blanc (1460-1464), and was a frustrated commander of the Crusade to recuperate Constantinople following the plan of Pope Calixtus III (1455). He could have been the inspiration for Tirant himself. This hypothesis is reinforces by the fact that there are three Carmesines from the mid-15th century associated with him: A Carmesina his "servant" and possibly his lover; Carmesina Requesens, his niece, born in the 1450s; and Carmesina de Corella, of whom he was godfather ca. 1452. The first Carmesina could have been the inspiration for the princess Carmesina of the chivalric novel.
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Nicolau Primitiu and the Interest on the Cultural Legacy of the Kingdom of Valencia
Alaitz ZALBIDEA BERENGUER
Original title: Nicolau Primitiu i l’interés pel llegat cultural del Regne de València
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Keywords: 20th c., Nacionalism, National renaissance, Nicolau Primitiu, Valencia.
This article is devoted to the analysis of Nicolau Primitiu-Gómez-Serrano’s works (1878-1971) devoted to reivindicate the dignity of Valencian culture, such as essays, personal memories), and poems. The article offers an overview of his thought based on the analysis of his works devoted to medieval culture. Quotes from his works allow the reader to get a taste of the author’s genuine Valencian, full of medieval nuances both in its morphology and vocabulary.
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Moro-Moro Criticism and Aesthetics: al-Andalus and the Moors and Christians Philippine Theatre
Isaac DONOSO
Original title: Crítica i Estètica del Moro-moro: Al-àndalus i el teatre filipí. De moros i cristians
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Keywords: Al-Andalus, Alcoy, Hispanic Conquest’s Dramas, Komedya, Moro-Moro, Moros y Cristianos, Muslim-Christian Relations, Philippines.
This article analyzes the influence of al-Andalus in Asia and its paramount role in the definition of Islamicity in the Philippines. It studies the theatrical genre called Moros y Cristianos (Moors and Christians) which originated in Valencia ―in particular in Alcoy― and later attained a worldwide dissemination. The article describes the main elements of this genre (and the general festivities within which it takes place) as well as the ideological underpinnings of the battles between Muslims and Christians that take place during these festivities. The main purpose of the study is to identify cultural trends in the formation of the Komedya in the Philippines and the creation of the Moro-Morista tradition.
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Critical Edition and Analysis of La vida de sanct Honofre (The Life of Saint Onofre), Published in Valencia at the Beginning of the 16th Century
Vicent JOSEP ESCARTÍ
Original title: Edició filològica i breu comentari de La vida de sanct Honofre, publicada a València a principis del segle XVI
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Keywords: 14th-16th c., Catalan Literature, Edition, Life of Saint Onofre, Valencia.
This article provides a study and philological edition of the Vida de sanc Honofre based on the 16th-c. princeps text. Although there exist previous modern editions of this work, none of them offers a critical text nor have been adequately disseminated for a wider audience. The introductory study analyses the date of composition of this work, its literary sources, and its process of composition.
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The Evolution of the Main Topics in Ausias March According to the Three-Fold Love Process
Tània ARAGÓ MELIÀ
Original title: L’evolució dels principals tòpics ausiasmarquians en relació amb l’evolució de les tres fases amoroses
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Keywords: 15th century, Ausiàs March, Disappointmentm poetry, Loving failure, Passion.
This article analyzes the writings of Ausiàs March as derived from the concept of ‘failure’ in love. Ausiàs was not interested in the abstract analysis of the different types of love but in the study of his very own nature, as he felt devastated by his dissapointment with love. His verses reveal a personality full of contradictions showing his changing and volatile mood as he focused on three different concepts of love: spiritual love, human love, passionate love. Through the analysis of these three concepts, we try to answer the following question: through his analysis of the secrets of love, was Ausiàs March able to ever find virtue?
