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Culture and school in the Middle Ages. Light and shade of educational problems
Giorgio CRESCENZA
Original title: Cultura y escuela en la Edad Media. Luces y sombras de problemas educativos
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Keywords: Church, Education, Libraries, Medieval Age, Thomas Aquinas, University.
Famines and pestilences that alternated in the medieval age did not always allowed an orderly and regular flow of life. In this context, education and culture have not been a priority for all and of all, however cultural and educational strengths are many, including the birth of Universities and libraries. The article deals with a historical-pedagogical analysis on what happens in the school or in institutions similar to it which transmit culture codified in certain forms, through certain tools, with specific purposes. And this with the awareness that, especially in some periods, Courts and Churches are exactly the main vehicle of education, unlike school. It seems that an extensive renewal movement crosses the same religious circles and, on this point, the pedagogical project by Thomas Aquinas is reminded.
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Architecture in the Cantigas de Santa Maria by Alfonso X (13th century): Huelva, the Islam and the triumph of the Virgin Mary
Bárbara DANTAS
Original title: Arquitetura nas Cantigas de Santa Maria de Afonso X (séc. XIII): Huelva, o Islã e o triunfo da Virgem Maria
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Keywords: Architecture, Islam, Middle Ages, Virgin Mary, War.
The Cantigas de Santa Maria by king Alfonso X is a work with three artistic expressions: music, literature and painting. There are about 420 songs with reports of miracles and praises to the Virgin written in galician-portuguese and accompanied by illuminations that represent words in images. The focus will be to demonstrate the presence of architectural forms in the text and the illumination of the Cantiga 273, the miracle report of the city of Huelva-Andalusia. The architecture as a record of the defeats and victories occurred in the battles between christians and moors during the centuries of the Reconquest of the Iberian Peninsula, as well as the pacific artistic syncretism of that time.
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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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Powerful widows on Gandia’s 15th century, case studies
Marta MORANT
Original title: Viudes poderoses a la Gandia del segle XV, estudi dels casos
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Keywords: 15th Century, Gandia, Power, Widows, Women’s history.
Throughout history, the figure of the widow has been perceived through a lens at some distance from reality. This has condemned them to historical passivity and has attributed to them a subordination which bears little relation to the reality of their lived experience. With the study of in a vila conducted in the Kingdom of Valencia at the end of the medieval period, and through the analysis of primary sources, the real situation in which they lived will be shown: the family and social contexts of which they formed part, and the capabilities they used to defend both themselves and their families’ property. We will thus be able to refute the claims that were socially constructed about them, and to consider them as agents of history, and not mere observers of it.
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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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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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The victorious life and the disenchanted end of the great Macedonian conqueror Alexander the Great and the novelesque knight Tirant lo Blanc
Anastasia TERZOPOULOU
Original title: La vida victoriosa y el final desencantado del gran conquistador macedonio Alejandro Magno y del caballero novelesco Tirant lo Blanc
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Keywords: Ambition, Conquests, Death, Feats, Fortune, Testament.
The aim of this article is not to analyze the details of the life of Tirant lo Blanc, a literary figure from the Valencian Golden Age, and Alexander the Great, King of Macedonia, a real historical person of Ancient Greece; but to expose the common features that life presents and, above all, the early, bitter, and unexpected end of two great warriors and military strategists.
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Ten little things that magnify the Catalan Griselda
Júlia BUTINYÀ
Original title: Deu petiteses que magnifiquen la Griselda catalana
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Keywords: Bernat Metge, Francesco Petrarca, Giovanni Boccaccio, Griselda, Humanism.
Ten little things that magnify the Catalan Griselda: The stories of Griselda by the Italian authors, Boccaccio and Petrarca, bear witness to a profound discussion, as revealed by the epistolary of the Seniles. Bernat Metge, sensitive to the new current, enters into this controversy with his Catalan version and through some letters. His support for Boccaccio and the disjunction towards the mentor, which were already known, we analyze here from ten corners of observation, which explain the sign of the Humanisme in its origins, and can still give reason for its course.
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Fin’amor in Ausiàs March and Joan Roís de Corella
Aniello FRATTA
Original title: La bon’amor in Ausiàs March e Joan Roís de Corella
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Keywords: Ausiàs March, Catalan poetry of XV century, Conception of love, Joan Roís de Corella.
Through the analysis of Cant LXXI (Què m’ha calgut contemplar en amor) by Ausiàs March and Los qui amau, preneu aquesta cendra by Roís de Corella, the relationship between Ausiàsmarchian bon'amor and true Corellan love is investigated.
