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“A donzela que não podia ouvir falar de foder” e “Da mulher a quem arrancaram os colhões”: dois fabliaux e as questões do corpo e da condição feminina na Idade Média (sécs. XIII-XIV)
Ricardo da Costa and Nayhara Sepulcri
Published in The educacion and secular culture in the Middle Ages
Keywords: Fables - Middle Ages - Women's History - History of body.
Analysis of two fabliaux and the status of women in the Middle Ages.
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Os provérbios medievais em latim e a apropriação da cultura laica pelo discurso religioso – algumas palavras
Álvaro Alfredo Bragança Júnior
Published in The educacion and secular culture in the Middle Ages
Keywords: Classical Antiquity, Ecclesiastical discourse, Medieval latin, Paremiology.
The paremiological discourse in medieval latin shows the scholars a lot of nuances about norms of behaviour and propriety of conduct corresponding to a point of view, supported by the Church. However, this paper aims to present briefly, how topics connected to the Classical Antiquity, as well as to the representation of animals as models of vices and virtues are appropriated by ecclesiastical discourse, which turns secular wisdom and experience into proverbs with explicitly or implicitly purposes.
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Medieval heraldry: a cultural creation for a secular society
Gerard Marí i Brull
Original title: Heráldica medieval: una creación cultural para una sociedad laica
Published in The educacion and secular culture in the Middle Ages
Keywords: Coats of arm, Heraldry, Medieval History.
This paper aims to show how Heraldry is a medieval cultural phenomenon of first importance created and developed outside the ecclesiastical world, through the analysis of three specific aspects: its origins, the language for the heraldic description and the ways of transmission of its knowledge.
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The “pedagogical perspective” of Dante Aliguieri to access the true nobility and the earthly bliss
Moisés Romanazzi Tôrres
Original title: A perspectiva “pedagógica” de Dante Aliguieri no acesso à verdadeira nobreza e à beatitude terrestre
Published in The educacion and secular culture in the Middle Ages
Keywords: Emperor, Governor-philosophers, True nobility.
Dante, in the pages of Convivio, develops his ethics, establishing the model of the ideal life, perfect and nobly. This point of view is aristocratic because the spirit culture is reserved for special peoples of nobility. Here, the central element is the aristoteleanism. Dante imagines a group of governorphilosophers that received, exactly as a reward by your philosophical effort, the gift of the true nobility. They are assigned of guiding, in your feuds, kingdoms, cities, the human crowds to the happiness and terrestrial perfection. In the third book of the De Monarchia, Dante, closing this “pedagogic” perspective, characterizes the emperor definitively as the Great Philosopher of the Christianity and, like this, the Master, the ultimately guide of the men to the mystic splendor of the true nobility and of the blessedness philosophical or terrestrial.
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Preface: The nobility, spiritual source of Western civilization
Ricardo da Costa
Original title: Prefácio: A nobreza, fonte espiritual da civilização ocidental
Published in Aristocracy and nobility in the Ancient and Medieval World
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Presentation
Julia Butiñá Jiménez
Original title: Presentación
Published in Aristocracy and nobility in the Ancient and Medieval World
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The passions in Plato's The Republic and Ion: possibilities of philosophical inquiry
Jan G. J. TER REEGEN and Ana Alice MENESCAL
Original title: As paixões em A República e Íon de Platão: possibilidades do pensar filosófico
Published in Aristocracy and nobility in the Ancient and Medieval World
Keywords: Aristocracy, Ion, Passions, Plato, Republic.
This article analyzes Plato's arguments regarding passions. In Ion, Plato proposes that passions are something poetic, beautiful and necessary to man, in The Republic something that takes man away from the path of reason, making him lose his strength. That is why the philosopher defends the banishment of poets from his republic. It is worth noting that The Republic is one of the texts that best reflects the aristocratic origin of Plato. The object of analysis proposed here are the passions in two dialogues: a Socratic (Ion) one and another of the philosopher’s maturity (The Republic).
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Oedipus at Colonus by the light of Aristotelian ethics philosophy
Jan Gerard Joseph TER REEGEN and Tito Barros LEAL
Original title: Édipo em Colona à luz da filosofia ética aristotélica
Published in Aristocracy and nobility in the Ancient and Medieval World
Keywords: Aristotle, Ethics, Prudence, Sophocles, Tragedy.
The main purpose presented in this article is to analyze how the Sophoclean works influenced the Aristotelian ethical thought construction process. In order to conduct this analysis, the tragedy Oedipus at Colonus is used to arouse the discussion on central questions in the ethical thought of Aristotle, such as practical wisdom, caution and prudence. Therefore, it was necessary to re-compound the transition route between the political-mythical thought, expressed in the mythical temporality of the tragedies, and the political-ethical thought, experienced in the Athens daily routine during the fifth century B.C. However, it is not the proposal of this article to establish an evolutionist analysis concerning the Greek philosophical knowledge construction process. Since this process was done by human efforts, so it is a historical product, it is not a purpose of this work elaborate any kind of validation about one or another way (mythical or ethical) of comprehension, behavior and action. Thus, herein is offered a comparative view between these two possibilities in order to understand how one contributed to the construction of the other one.
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The Epigraphic layout in the Pompeian honorary inscription of Marcus Holconius Rufus
Carlos Alberto SERTÃ
Original title: A Diagramação Epigráfica na inscrição honorária pompeiana de Marcus Holconius Rufus
Published in Aristocracy and nobility in the Ancient and Medieval World
Keywords: Epigraphy, Pompeii, lapidaries, ordering.
This paper examines the work of the lapidaries’ ordering on the epigraph of Marcus Marcus Holconius Rufus in Pompeii.
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The two bodies of the king in Anglo-Saxon England
Nachman FALBEL and Elton O. S. MEDEIROS
Original title: Os dois corpos do rei na Inglaterra Anglo-Saxônica
Published in Aristocracy and nobility in the Ancient and Medieval World
Keywords: Anglo-Saxon England, Beowulf, Royalty, Society.
Since the beginnings of the medieval period, one of the most prominent characters in this kind of society is the king. His presence is extremely important to the social harmony, hence the king is not only the ruler of the people, but also represents the godly powers that manifest through him. So, we will show how this king dual-figure is represented in Anglo-Saxon literature, not as just a heroic symbol of war, but as the guardian of his folk e keeper of peace.
