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Oriental Christianity: the Ethiopian Church in the Middle Ages
Lincoln Etchebéhère JUNIOR and Thiago Pereira de Sousa LEPINSKI
Original title: Cristandade Oriental: a Igreja Etíope na Idade Média
Published in Aristocracy and nobility in the Ancient and Medieval World
Keywords: Ethiopia, Ethiopic Church, Monophisism, Solomon Tradition.
The goal of the present communication is to present a study about the Copt Church of Ethiopia, that according to tradition, was born on apostolic times, with Jewish and monophisist influences. Still according to Ethiopic national traditions, this Christian’s would already have found a monotheist people, due to the conversion of the Queen of Sabbath to the mosaic faith, after its biblical meeting with King Solomon. The descendants of Solomon and the Queen of Sabbath would have given origin to the Solomon dynasty. The sovereign of this dynasty was, in the sixteenth century, identified as the legendary Priest John of India.
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Strategies of alliance and social reproduction in Leon medieval aristocracy: the Flaínez (10th-11th centuries)
Mariel V. PÉREZ
Original title: Estrategias de alianza y reproducción social en la aristocracia medieval leonesa: los Flaínez (siglos X-XI)
Published in Aristocracy and nobility in the Ancient and Medieval World
Keywords: Alliance, Aristocracy, Kingdom of Leon, Social reproduction.
In this article we will analyze the strategies of alliance of Leon medieval aristocracy, with the intention of revealing the important function they carried out in the social reproduction of the ruling class. We will focus the study in the Flaínez family, one of the most eminent aristocratic groups in the Kingdom of León during the 10th and 11th centuries.
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The Christological nobility of animals in the medieval Bestiary: the Lion and the Unicorn examples
Pedro Carlos Louzada FONSECA
Original title: A nobreza cristológica de animais no bestiário medieval: o exemplo do Leão e do Unicórnio
Published in Aristocracy and nobility in the Ancient and Medieval World
Keywords: Christology, animal symbolism, medieval bestiary.
This article examines aspects of creation and development of the medieval bestiary, and its moral and doctrinal significance for medieval Christianity. In the development of the study, an analytical and interpretative exam is done in relation to some animals which are considered noble due to their outstanding Christological symbolism, namely the lion and the unicorn.
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“Thy Kingdom come”: The Legitimation of the Medieval Court Through Image of the Heavenly Court
Jó KLANOVICZ, Icles RODRIGUES and Rodrigo Prates de ANDRADE
Original title: “Venha a nós o Vosso reino”: a legitimação da Corte Medieval através da imagem da Corte Celestial
Published in Aristocracy and nobility in the Ancient and Medieval World
Keywords: Church, Court, King, Nobility, image.
This article studies the medieval court by a perspective of a historiographical readout of the political theology. The idea of an instrument of legitimation of the royal power based in the heavenly court and that mirrored in the earthly court. This conception is very present in the medieval iconography, that will be used in this analysis.
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David Negro: a court Jew in the juncture of 1383-1385
Manuela Santos SILVA and Alice TAVARES
Original title: David Negro: un judío cortesano en la coyuntura portuguesa de 1383- 1385
Published in Aristocracy and nobility in the Ancient and Medieval World
Keywords: Court Jews, Don David Negro, King D. Fernando, King D. João I.
Contribution to the study of Portuguese Judaic courtiers, in particular of Don David Negro. King Fernando’s councilor and royal servant, and the later rabbi in Castilla, during the reign of Juan I. Don David took part in the political rebellion of 1383 – 1385 which resulted in the rise of the Master of Avis to the throne of Portugal – D. João I.
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The Royal Chapel of the Córdoba Cathedral and its repercussion on the noble foundations during the Late Middle Ages
Mª Ángeles JORDANO BARBUDO
Original title: La Capilla Real de la Catedral de Córdoba y su repercusión en las fundaciones nobiliarias durante la Baja Edad Media
Published in Aristocracy and nobility in the Ancient and Medieval World
Keywords: Cordoba Cathedral, Mudejar, Royal Chapel, inscriptions, reforms.
The Royal Chapel, completed under Henry II of Trastamara in 1371, exerted a powerful influence on the nobility in Cordoba, which in its monumental buildings, be they funerary chapels, palatial houses or castles, adopted the Mudejar style as an expression of ostentation and power. Such glorification of their lineage can be seen in the representation of their coats of arms above the entrances to the halls and in their private chapels, decorated with plasterwork inspired by the flamboyant decoration of the Royal Chapel, whose excellent state of conservation is due to various reforms carried out between the 16th and 19th centuries, as has been shown by the inscriptions we have discovered on the base of the arches of the vaults and which we would like to make public in this article.
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Nobility and Femininity in Medieval Georgia: Thinatin and Nestan
Antonio CONTRERAS MARTÍN
Original title: Nobleza y Feminidad en la Georgia Medieval: Tinatín y Nestán
Published in Aristocracy and nobility in the Ancient and Medieval World
Keywords: Femininity, Medieval Georgia, Medieval Literature, Nobility, Rusthaveli.
The purpose of this work is to analyze the picture of the Georgian noble women, that Shotha Rusthaveli make (12th-13th centuries). I will focus my study on two princesses: Thinatin and Nestan; because they are two main characters in The Knight in the Panther’s Skin.
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The late medieval Castilian nobility and the king: building and redistribution of power
Cecilia DEVIA
Original title: La nobleza castellana bajomedieval y el rey: construcción y redistribución del poder
Published in Aristocracy and nobility in the Ancient and Medieval World
Keywords: Chronicles, King, Middle Ages, Nobility, Violence.
It discusses the relationships between the nobility and the king in the Chronicle of King Don Pedro by Pero Lopez de Ayala, in light of the model reproductive strategies of the dynastic State developed by Pierre Bourdieu. Emphasis is placed on the rational use of violence that govern the conduct of both the king and the nobles, especially in construction and redistribution of power.
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Images of nobility in life and works of Meister Eckhart
Matteo RASCHIETTI
Original title: As imagens da nobreza na vida e nas obras de Mestre Eckhart
Published in Aristocracy and nobility in the Ancient and Medieval World
Keywords: Eckhart, Nobility, deep of soul, intellect, soul.
Noble as provenance, dominicam master’s life had a plebeian destiny when he was condemned for heresy post mortem. In despite of this, his disciples setted on fire the flame of true nobilty indicated by Eckhart, that is peculiar of soul, intellect and human being free and detached of all images, inclusively of God’s image. Only when human being will recognise His presence in the deep of soul, finding the similarity with Him in the dissimilarity of himself and of all creatures, will be possible to experiment the true nobilty and the end of alterity between deus absconditus and His masterpiece of creation.
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Origin of the main houses of the manor of Fuentecubierta (Cordoba, Spain)
Fernando MORENO CUADRO
Original title: Origen de las casas principales del señorío de Fuentecubierta (Córdoba, España)
Published in Aristocracy and nobility in the Ancient and Medieval World
Keywords: Estate, Fuencubierta, Gómez Suárez de Figueroa, Manor, Ruy Fernández de Córdoba.
One of the most important historic mansions in the city of Cordoba (Spain) is the one known as the Viana Palace, named after the marquises who were the last owners. The mansion’s origins go back to the 14th and 15th centuries, a time when the Lord of Fuencubierta bought a group of old 14th century houses from Teresa Carrillo which had formerly belonged to Leonor López, widow of the Lord Treasurer of Andalusia, Miguel Ruiz, and which he converted into his main residence. The aim of this work is to make a record of the houses during the late Middle Ages in connection with the Fuencubierta Manor and Estate, before it was rebuilt in Renaissance times to become the Estate of the Lords of Villaseca.
