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Quia nolunt dimittere credere pro credere, sed credere per intelligere: Ramon Llull and his Jewish Contemporaries
Harvey Hames
Published in Ramon Llull (1232-1316): the cooperation among different cultures and the inter-religious dialogue
Unlike most of his contemporaries, Ramon Llull understood the need of actually engaging with the beliefs of his Jewish and Muslim contemporaries, rather than just with their texts, if he wanted to attain their conversion to Christianity. Coming from the Iberian peninsula where new theologies like Kabbalah were gaining ground among the Jews, Llull harnessed its central tenets in order to convince the Jews, by "necessary reason", of the inherent truth of Christianity. This article discusses the intellectual milieau in which Llull developed his Art, shows how he intended it to be used, and brings a Jewish response by Solomon ibn Adret, leader of the Jewish community in Catalonia to the challenge posed by Llull.
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What is, what is done and why exists? Lulians definitions in the Book of rational soul (1296)
Ricardo da Costa
Original title: O que é, de que é feita e porque existe? Definições lulianas no Livro da Alma Racional (1296)
Published in Ramon Llull (1232-1316): the cooperation among different cultures and the inter-religious dialogue
Study about the definition of what is soul in the Book of Alma Rational by Ramon Llull.
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The religious imagination in Ramon Llull: a theory of contemplative oration
Amador Vega
Original title: La imaginación religiosa en Ramon Llull: una teoria de la oración contemplativa
Published in Ramon Llull (1232-1316): the cooperation among different cultures and the inter-religious dialogue
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The social and political functions of good knight in the Book of the Knight Order (c. 1279-1283) of Ramon Llull (1232-1316)
Danielle Werneck Nunes and Ricardo da Costa
Original title: As funções sociais e políticas do bom cavaleiro no Livro da Ordem de Cavalaria (c. 1279-1283) de Ramon Llull (1232-1316)
Published in Ramon Llull (1232-1316): the cooperation among different cultures and the inter-religious dialogue
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Misogyny and sanctity in the Late Middle Ages: the three female models in the Book of Wonders (1289) of Ramon Llull
Eliane Ventorim
Original title: Misoginia e Santidade na Baixa Idade Média: os três modelos femininos no Livro das Maravilhas (1289) de Ramon Llull
Published in Ramon Llull (1232-1316): the cooperation among different cultures and the inter-religious dialogue
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Knowledge and Education in the Late Antiquity: the Monastic Fathers and Ecclesiastics before of Greek-Roman culture
Ronaldo Amaral
Original title: Saber e Educação na Antigüidade Tardia: os Padres monásticos e eclesiásticos diante da cultura greco-romana
Published in The educacion and secular culture in the Middle Ages
The Late Antiquity is certainly one of the most important periods for the understanding of our civilization and its culture. Cradle of the Christianity and of that that would come to be the western Christian civilization, for we restrict ourselves to the Latin world, it is in this period that appears and it takes body, or else properly our material structures, in our great measure mental structures, once we owed to the Christianity and its main current of thought of this time, the Patristic, the essential not only of our religious credo, but even of the genesis in our way and thought reason. The Christian culture, for its time, had been indebted of another religious and cultural tradition, being built to the incorporation of that another tradition. This process was developed above all in this period that occupies us and by means of many of those that would come to be known as priests of the Church.
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The apocryphal texts in the Christian iconography
Ofelia Manzi and Patricia Grau-Dieckmann
Original title: Los textos apócrifos en la iconografía Cristiana
Published in The educacion and secular culture in the Middle Ages
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Formation, obedience and humanism: considerations about the Middle Ages child education in the Monodies of abbot Guibert of Nogent (XII century)
Carlile Lanzieri Júnior
Original title: Formação, obediência e humanismo: considerações sobre a educação infantil medieval nas Monodies do abade Guiberto de Nogent (séc. XII)
Published in The educacion and secular culture in the Middle Ages
In 1115, the benedictine abbot Guibert of Nogent (1055-1125) concluded his book of personal memories, usually called De vita sua by modern authors. Shared in three parts, this book calls attention because the absolutely personal aspect of its first part. In it, Guibert wrote very much about the several events that happened in his infancy and part of his adulthood. Among some of then, we will analyze in this article those in which the abbot remembered the details about the education that he received when he was a boy and in the early years in which he lived in a monastery. An education signed by the hardness, but also the worring with the moral and academic formation of the individual too, important marks of the medieval benedictine pedagogy monastic.
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The Christian imaginary in the novels of knights and in the cantigas de amor
Hilda Gomes Dutra Magalhães, Eliane Cristina Testa and Izabel Cristina dos Santos Teixeira
Original title: O imaginário cristão nas novelas de cavalaria e nas cantigas de amor
Published in The educacion and secular culture in the Middle Ages
We analyze, in this text, the influence of the christian education in the secular imaginary of the Middle Age, more exactly in the story of chivalry Search for the Holy Grail and in the plaintive love songs, produced in the Europe in the twelfth century. Throughout the reflection, we observed an important influence of the Church as much in the cavalry stories as in the plaintive love songs, but these influences weren't sufficient for to avoid the increase, in the imaginary of Middle Age, of the individuality, cultural substratum of the Europe anterior the Christianism.
