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  1. Two readings of Mary’s life: the Vita Christi by Isabel de Villena and Vida de la sacratíssima verge Maria, by Miquel Peres

    Carme ARRONIS I LLOPIS

    Original title: Dos lecturas de la vida de María: la Vita Christi de Isabel de Villena y la Vida de la sacratíssima verge Maria de Miquel Peres

    Published in Isabel de Villena (1430-1490)

    Keywords: Devotional Literature, Isabel de Villena, Life of Mary, Marian Literature, Miquel Peres, Vita Christi.

    The Vita Christi by Isabel de Villena and La vida de la sacratíssima verge Maria by Miquel Peres are two devotional works appeared in Valencia in the late Fifteenth Century, and both are characterized by its Marian subject. However, they have been never analyzed together in search of possible dependencies or divergences. This work exposes for the first time how, despite the thematic proximity, each author offers a different text in order to present the role of the Virgin in the evangelical facts.

  2. Isabel de Villena, a very special and feminine theological look

    Lola ESTEVA DE LLOBET

    Original title: Isabel de Villena, una mirada teológica en femenino muy singular

    Published in Isabel de Villena (1430-1490)

    Keywords: Coadjuvants women, Redemption, Trinity theologie.

    The traditional reception from on of the classical works referents of European spirituality, el Vita Christi, by Ludolf de Sajonia, hass been transformed by the writings of Isabel de Villena, who in her book, la Vita Christi, offers a new point of view, human and humanistic at the same time: the life of Christ develops in a theological threatsense of trinity experience where women at as adjuvant of Christ Redemption.

  3. Isabel de Villena: Prayer and Franciscan Spirituality

    Lesley K TWOMEY

    Published in Isabel de Villena (1430-1490)

    Keywords: Franciscan prayer techniques, Franciscanism, Middle Ages, Orality, Passion.

    This essay examines traces of the oral in the prayers written by Isabel de Villena (1430-1490), abbess of the Santa Trinitat convent in Valencia. The essay compares the prayers of Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane in the Vita Christi with St Francis’s Office of the Passion. It finds that whilst there are some similarities between St Francis’s Office and Villena’s Vita Christi, this is because of technique in using phrases from the Psalms rather than direct influence.

  4. The Sasanian Tradition in ʽAbbāsid Art: squinch fragmentation as The structural origin of the muqarnas

    Alicia CARRILLO

    Published in Isabel de Villena (1430-1490)

    Keywords: Islamic architecture, Middle Ages, Muqarnas, Sasanian, Tripartite squinches, ʽAbbāsid Caliphate.

    Islamic architecture presents a three-dimensional decoration system known as muqarnas. An original system created in the Near East between the second/eighth and the fourth/tenth centuries due to the fragmentation of the squinche, but it was in the fourth/eleventh century when it turned into a basic element, not only all along the Islamic territory but also in the Islamic vocabulary. However, the origin and shape of muqarnas has not been thoroughly considered by Historiography. This research tries to prove the importance of Sasanian Art in the aesthetics creation of muqarnas.

  5. CHITTOLINI, Giorgio. L’Italia delle “civitates”. Grandi e piccoli centri fra Medioevo e Rinascimento. Roma: Viella, 2015. 260p. ISBN: 978-88-6728-385-9

    Josué VILLA PRIETO

    Published in Isabel de Villena (1430-1490)

  6. CENGARLE, Federica & COVINI, Maria Nadia (coords.). Il ducato di Filippo Maria Visconti, 1412-1447. Economia, politica, cultura. Florencia: Firenze University Press, 2015. 364p. ISBN: 978-88-6655-894-1

    Josué VILLA PRIETO

    Published in Isabel de Villena (1430-1490)

  7. Ressenya a Gassulla d’Ursino, Carles, Poesia festiva. A cura de Vicent Josep Escartí. Institució Alfons el Magnànim. Biblioteca d’Autors Valencians. 2015, 223 pp. ISBN: 978-84-7822-67-95

    Arantxa LLÀCER MARTORELL

    Published in Isabel de Villena (1430-1490)

  8. Ramon Llull and the Liber contra Antichristum

    Esteve JAULENT

    Original title: Raimundo Lúlio e o Livro contra o Anticristo

    Published in Ramon Llull. Seventh centenary

    Keywords: Faith and Reason, Liber contra Antichristum, Logic, Metaphysics, Ramon Llull, Theology and Philosophy.

    A superficial interpretation of the “Book Against the Antichrist” may lead to several misunderstandings of Llull’s thought regarding the relation between Philosophy and Theology: this is particularly true for Llull’s purported rationalism that would despise knowledge through faith and lead to a false equivalence among religions. This article presents a new approach to Llull’s works from a metaphysical and a logical point of view: while holding the truths of faith in abeyance, Llull draws exclusively rational consequences which, however, correspond to revealed truths.

  9. Nosce teipsum in Ramon Llull’s work

    Jaume MEDINA

    Original title: Nosce teipsum en l’obra de Ramon Llull

    Published in Ramon Llull. Seventh centenary

    Keywords: Anthropology, Catalan Literature, Ethics, Medieval Philosophy, Middel Ages, Ramon Llull, Theology.

    Even though the presence of the Delphic precept «γνῶθι σαυτόν» («nosce teipsum») in Ramon Llull’s work is scarce, the research done in the present study reaches a twofold conclusion: firstly, the master's knowledge of the precept; secondly, the importance he gave to it in some central passages of his production.

  10. What things Llull accepts from Muslims

    Josep PUIG MONTADA

    Original title: Llull, i quines coses accepta dels musulmans

    Published in Ramon Llull. Seventh centenary

    Keywords: Conversion into Christianity, Islam, Raimundus Lullus.

    Raimundus Lullus claims to have written some of his works first in Arabic but no evidence is available. No doubt he knew Islamic philosophy and theology and the article tries to answer which elements did he integrate into his doctrine; it looks as if most of them were of formal nature.

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