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Introduction: Art, Criticism and Mystic
Bento SILVA SANTOS
Original title: Apresentação: Arte, Crítica e Mística
Published in Art, Criticism and Mysticism
Keywords: Art, Criticism, Mystic.
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Medieval and early modern Iberian Peninsula Cultural History (XIII-XVII centuries)
Ricardo da COSTA
Original title: A Cultura na Península Ibérica Medieval e Moderna (sécs. XIII-XVII)
Published in Medieval and Early Modern Iberian Peninsula Cultural History
Keywords: Presentation.
Presentation
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Jewish philosophical thought in al-Andalus
Cecilia Cintra Cavaleiro de MACEDO
Original title: O Pensamento filosófico judaico em al-Andalus
Published in Medieval and Early Modern Iberian Peninsula Cultural History
Keywords: Ibn Gabirol, Maimonides, Sefarad.
Initiated by Philo of Alexandria at the 1st century of Christian Age in dialogue with Hellenistic thought, philosophy was developed among the Jewish during the Middle Age in territories under Islamic political power and for many centuries it was written in Arabic. Hebrew was a language used for prayer, and for centuries, it did not have appropriate words to translate the concepts of Greek philosophy. For this reason, until the 13th century Jewish philosophy was written almost exclusively in Arabic. It migrated from Orient to Occident and, especially in al-Andalus, it had a very expressive development, through the efforts of the Caliphate of Cordoba and in the next period too, with the support of some of the separate kingdoms (Tawâ’if).
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“Quel dan uenga sobre altre que sobre nos”: tolerance and pragmatism in the Llibre dels Feyts of James I of Aragon (1213-1276)
Aline Dias da SILVEIRA; Rodrigo Prates de ANDRADE
Original title: “Quel dan uenga sobre altre que sobre nos”: tolerância e pragmatismo no Llibre dels Feyts de Jaime I de Aragão (1213-1276)
Published in Medieval and Early Modern Iberian Peninsula Cultural History
Keywords: Iberian Peninsula, James I of Aragon, Llibre dels Feyts, Pragmatism, Tolerance.
The purpose of this article is to undestand the representations about the saracens in the autobiography of James I of Aragon (1208-1276) produced in the 1270 decade, the Llibre dels Feyts. Since the contemporary medieval studies interpret these representations from a preponderance of ethinic and religious aspects or a break caused by the first revolt of Valencia (1244), becomes necessary to analyze the relations between christians and muslims from a medieval concept of tolerance in order to encompass them in their historical complexity and increase the interpretations to the developed time by entering James I in the Iberian context of the XIII century. The analysis of the Llibre dels Feyts exposes the operationalization of a pragmatic policy toward the conquered Muslims populations, to tolerate those who recognize the authority and legitimacy of catalan-aragonese monarch. According to an organic and feudal perspective the saracens were incorporated into Catalan and Aragonese territories, without, however, enjoy a equal status.
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Discursive-musical Polyphony in the Cantigas de Santa Maria by Alfonso X, el Sabio
Antonio Celso RIBEIRO
Original title: A Polifonia discursivo-musical nas Cantigas de Santa Maria de Alfonso X, o Sábio
Published in Medieval and Early Modern Iberian Peninsula Cultural History
Keywords: Bakhtin, Cantigas, Dialogism, Discursive-musical polyphony, Jewish, Middle Ages, Music.
The aim of the present work is to analyse the interrelationship between the text and the musical tessitura in one of the pieces from the Cantigas de Santa Maria, by Alfonso X, el Sabio (13th Cent.). The chosen work is extracted among those which deal with the presence of the Jewish people in a Christian realm, where I look for to recover in the melodies, marks that reinforce or denigrate their image, comparing them with Christian presence as well the Virgen Mary. Thus, I take in assumption that music is a language, and I will support the analysis in taking into account the concept of “discursive-musical polyphony” created by Lanna using the theoretical framework of the Russian philosopher Mikhail Bakhtin.
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Juan Manuel (1282-1348) and ‘Jewish’ Professions in Count Lucanor: A Medieval Iberian Model of Inter-Group Relations
David NAVARRO
Original title: Juan Manuel (1282-1348) and ‘Jewish’ Professions in Count Lucanor: A Medieval Iberian Model of Inter-Group Relations
Published in Medieval and Early Modern Iberian Peninsula Cultural History
Keywords: Convivencia, Count Lucanor, Extended Contact Hypothesis, Jew, Juan Manuel.
This article aims to analyze the personal relationship between Christian writer Juan Manuel (1282-1348) and the Jewish community in his collection of didactic exempla, El Conde Lucanor [Count Lucanor]. Through the theory of out-group interaction, and the mechanisms of re-fencing and extended contact hypothesis, I will examine the relationship of trust and respect reflected between the author and the Jews through the portrayal of some professions attributed to that community by popular folklore, such as money lenders, physicians, alchemists, nigromancers and sorcerers, as shown in the introduction and four exempla of the book. I will analyze several literary techniques employed by the author in regards to these ‘Jewish occupations’ as a resource to minimize the social rejection towards the Jew, and an example of a complex convivencia [cohabitation] that shaped XIV-century Castilian Christian-Jewish relations.
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Marginalized women. The case of the Castilian concubines
David WAIMAN
Original title: Mujeres marginadas. El caso de las concubinas castellanas
Published in Medieval and Early Modern Iberian Peninsula Cultural History
Keywords: Castile, Concubinage, Concubines, Middle Ages, Sexuality.
Concubinage has been, over the past decade, several investigations. While increasingly know more about concubines and late medieval concubinage. This time we will try to give a new look to the pasts in Castile in the thirteenth and fifteenth centuries. Added to this will be analytical axis as the role of women in concubinage, seeing in them the various forms that are part of that reality.
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El pensamiento político franciscano de la Corona de Aragón (siglos XIII-XV): modelos, paradigmas e ideas
Rafael RAMIS BARCELÓ
Original title: O pensamento político franciscano da Coroa de Aragão (sécs. XIII-XV): modelos, paradigmas e ideias
Published in Medieval and Early Modern Iberian Peninsula Cultural History
Keywords: Crown of Aragon, Franciscan Political thought, Franciscanism, Middle Ages.
This paper aims to present the importance of Franciscanism in the political thought of the Crown of Aragon. After examining the settlement of the Franciscan Order in the Crown of Aragon and studying the obtainable historiography, a series of models are proposed through cross ideological currents, thinkers, political actors and basic issues of political medieval theory. This would support the idea that in the Crown of Aragon (in a broad sense) some traits can be individualized that can only be understood through Political Franciscanism.
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The Dialogue on the edge: the Librum disputationis Petri et Raimundi phantastici (1311)
Ricardo da COSTA
Original title: O Diálogo no limite: “A disputa entre Pedro e Ramon, o superfantástico” (1311)
Published in Medieval and Early Modern Iberian Peninsula Cultural History
Keywords: Disputatio, Medieval Art, Medieval Philosophy, Ramon Llull.
The purpose of this conference is to present the phylosophical debate between Pedro and Ramon Llull (Librum disputationis Petri et Raimundi phantastici), and analyze the limits of the medieval dialogue. Debate or conversion? We intend to discuss the parameters of medieval dialogue lulian, aspects that led our author to the most extreme fantasies of literary-philosophical dialogue: the dramatization of the conflict between ideals and realistic attitudes. In addition, we intend to do a iconographic analysis of one of the most famous artistic representations of Ramon Llull: “The rear of the army and relief of Mr. Ramon Llull of Majorca to destroy the tower of falsehood and ignorance”, seventh miniature from Breviculum (1325).
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D. Eleanor Lopez of Cordova’s (1362/63-1430) Memoires: A poetic of non-oblivion
Marcella LOPES GUIMARÃES
Original title: As memórias de D. Leonor López de Córdoba (1362/63-1430): uma poética do não esquecimento
Published in Medieval and Early Modern Iberian Peninsula Cultural History
Keywords: Eleanor Lopez of Cordova, Memoires, Peter of Castile, Trastamara.
The memoires of a Castilian lady Eleanor Lopez of Cordova consist on an unique document for three reasons: the female authorship within the context she was in, the autobiographic text and the support for the rightful faction defeated by the ascension of the Trastamara. Eleanor Lopez of Cordova is the daughter of Martin Lopez of Cordova, who was the Master of the Alcantara and Calatrava orders, and a rare survivor of the persecution that her family went through after her father’s death. With the marriage of Henry III and Catherine of Lancaster, she achieved a noteworthy prominence, which however, was once again dissembled by the complex royal and noble relations during the period of John II’s reing.
