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  1. Works of Art or Artisan? Some considerations about the figurative greek vases

    José Francisco de Moura

    Original title: Obras de Arte ou Artesanato? Algumas considerações sobre os vasos figurados gregos

    Published in Mirabilia 1

    Keywords: Ancient greece, Arkesilas, Art History, Black figure, Sparta, Vase.

    The aim of his article is to expose and refleting about some aproaches in the greek vases.

  2. The Magical Knowledge of Medea

    Maria Regina Candido

    Original title: O Saber mágico de Medéia

    Published in Mirabilia 1

    Keywords: Greek, Greek woman, Magic, Medea, Myth, Tragedy.

    The Medea is one the most remarkable and important imaginative works in all western literature. Medea is presented, initially as victim, but she is able to strike and pursue her revenge on a heroic homeric way.

  3. Considerations about the Woman’s condition in Classical Greece (5th and 6th centuries)

    Moisés Romanazzi Tôrres

    Original title: Considerações sobre a condição da mulher na Grécia Clássica (séculos V e IV a.C.)

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    Keywords: Aristophanes., Aristotle, Women.

    This article, fundamentally about ateniense case, presents some aspects about woman condition in the Classic Greek. Aristotle justifies the woman submission by the absence of logos plenitude in her spirit. The Aristophanes comedy presents the woman participation in the public life as unusual action. Finally, on the Spartan woman case, we verify a shorter importance in the social body and in the family life.

  4. The end of Ancient World: a historical debate

    Gilvan Ventura da Silva

    Original title: O fim do mundo antigo: uma discussão historiográfica

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    Keywords: Ancient World, Disintegration, Historiography..

    With this article, we intend to discuss how some writers since 18th century treated the “decline” of the Roman Empire connected with their historical views. Therefore, we analyze the emergence of a new conception of time, the refutation of progress and decadence as useful historical concepts and the dissolution of the positivist paradigm trying to show how the theme of the passage from Antiquity to Medieval Age acquired a new meaning according to these deep and important theoretical changes.

  5. Apocryphal storie's influence on Medieval Art

    Patricia Grau-Dieckmann

    Original title: Influencia de las historias apócrifas en el Arte

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    Keywords: Apocryphal Gospels, Art, Canonical Gospels, Flight to Egypt, Iconography, Legends..

    Christian art depicts scenes on the life cycles of Virgin Mary and Jesus that, even though they are familiar to our eyes, entail an iconographic content that does not strictly reflect the accounts of the Canonical Gospels. These scenes, although conceived in the Church's own bosom, are based on legends, apocryphal stories and oral traditions. Within this context we will consider works produced from the 5th to the 15th century and will analyze the way in which the Apocryphal Gospels and some orally transmitted traditional legends have conditioned the iconography of the Holy Family's Flight to Egypt.

  6. Erotics and Kwowledge related to a short-story in The Thousand and One Nights

    Rafael Ramón Guerrero

    Original title: Erótica y Saber a propósito de un cuento de Las Mil y Una Noches

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    Keywords: Arabic Philosophy., Erotic, Greek Philosophy, wisdom.

    The Thousand and One Nights is a collection of tales; many of which exposed a wisdom elaborated along the history by various peoples. A tale collects the conception that Greek philosophy, since Plato, set up and developed about love as a trend toward wisdom. In this article, I recall shortly this process through Greek philosophy, Christian world and medieval Islam, and I finally sketch the tale of the Thousand and One Nights.

  7. 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

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    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.

  8. The lexical-figurative textualism on "Los Beatus"

    Nora Marcela Gómez

    Original title: La Textualidad Léxico-Figurativa en los Beatos

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    Keywords: Blessed Spanishes, Doom, iconographic autonomy, iconographic independency., simultaneously and dissimilar texts, written and iconographical text.

    The Art history of the Middle Age has been commonly based on the statement that the pictorial-sculptural iconography due its representation exclusively to sacred books. This approach reduce the artistic image to just a visual variant of the text, a mere translocation of the printed word to its formal and material representation with divulgation aims for the unlettered, converting this iconography in a dogmatic one. So, the rich and deep value of the images and their omnifunctionality in medieval society has been misjudged. The text Commentarius in Apocalypsin from Beato had huge publicity in the Hispanic world; with further and multiples copies and illustrations over the next centuries. The thirty-two codices from centuries IX to XIII are enough evidence of the great success of the text. This paper will focus on the relation between text and image to check correlations, dissimilarities, autonomous presentiveness, and plastic innovations that defied the logical system of the time. The illuminators of “Los Beatos”, yet still depending on the canonical versicles and on the commiter demands, produced an iconographical-apocalyptic corpus that testimony a creative freedom, an artistic quality, and a masterfulness on the plasticchromatic ways, that enact those codices as an absolutely exceptional and one-of-a-kind iconographic monument from the Art of the Middle Age.

  9. Reception of San Isidoro of Sevilla by Domingo Gundisalvo (1100-1181): Astronomy, Astrology and Medicine in Middle Ages

    Alexander Fidora

    Original title: La Recepción de San Isidoro de Sevilla por Domingo Gundisalvo (ca. 1110-1181): Astronomía, Astrología y Medicina en la Edad Media

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    Keywords: Astrology, Astronomy, Dominicus Gundissalinus, Isidore of Seville, Medicine., Toledan School of Translators.

    Although the arabic sources of Dominicus Gundissalinus – archdeacon of Cuéllar and one of the most important representatives of the Toledan School of Translators – have been studied in detail, only few information is available until now concerning the latin-christian foundations of his work. The present article pretends to shed some light on the subject by analysing Gundissalinus’ use of Isidore of Seville’s works, which leads to the surprising conclusion that it is precisely the most arabic topics, i.e. astronomy/astrology and medicine, where Gundissalinus is mostly inspired by Saint Isidore.

  10. Sketch of a transcendental lulian's ethic

    Ciléa Dourado

    Original title: Esboço de uma ética universal luliana

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    Keywords: Be, Ethic, Ramon Llull, Trinity., Virtue.

    For Lúlio man is the “ humanizing animal” (the one that humanize his context), the only one that while participating in the matter and form of the universe he builds himself. The psychic virtue that endows the rational soul of memory, understanding and will is the space where the conscience and the first cause of the human self-determination are forged. The basis of the Lullian universal and transcendental ethics is that all men of any race or belief possess the trinitary virtue which supports them on being, as well as all of them are able to think, to understand and to love. This doesn’t mean a rupture with the divine, because it is God who keeps each creature on being, consequently He is inner its actions. It means a new vision of God as the one that enables the human essence and contributes updating human perfection. Since I have the freedom to accomplish it that improves me on being, I can use this freedom in a wrong way and go against being. The bad use of freedom depreciates willing, that doesn’t follow understanding, allowong vice to fix. The vicious abominates his being and ignores he is in the Evil, because without the illumination of virtue, the memory doesn’t meditate, understanding doesn’t understand and willing.

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