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New biographical data on Suero de Ribera: Castilian cleric, servant of the church in Italy and author of songbook poems in the 15th and 16th centuries
Jesús Fernando CÁSEDA TERESA
Original title: Nuevos datos biográficos de Suero de Ribera: clérigo castellano, servidor de la iglesia en Italia y autor de poemas de cancionero en los siglos XV y XVI
Published in The Kingdom of the Spirit
Keywords: 15th-16th Centuries, Biography, Cancioneros, Poetry, Suero de Ribera.
This research on the 15th and 16th century songbook writer Suero de Ribera, to whom up to twenty-five compositions are attributed, provides previously unknown documentation on his biography after locating him in various historical archives, documentation that probably refers to your person. From these, I establish his relationship with important figures in the social life of Rome and Naples, such as the Count of Oliva and the Cardinal of Capua, the Valencian Joan Llopis. And I venture his family background, Valladolid, the Castilian city of which he speaks in some of his poems.
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Mediterranean Cultural Tensions in Roman Egypt in light of the Λόγος Τέλειος (III AD)
David Pessoa de LIRA
Original title: Tensões mediterrâneas culturais no Egito Romano à Luz do Λόγος Τέλειος (III AD)
Published in Intercultural Mediterranean
Keywords: Asclepius Latinus, Hermetic Literature, Native Egyptians, Sociopolitical and socioreligious tensions, Λόγος Τέλειος, ἀλλόφυλοι, ⲗⲟⲅⲟⲥ ⲧⲉⲗⲉⲓⲟⲥ.
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The Mediterranean in the Ancient Age was a space of conflicts, exchanges, encounters, interactions and disagreements. This article examines the cultural tensions between native Egyptians (ⲛ̅ⲣⲙ̅ⲛ̅ⲕⲏⲙⲉ [enremenkēme]) and the settlers of the metropolitan nomos in Roman Egypt, known as ἀλλόφυλοι or ⲛⲁⲗⲗⲟⲫⲩⲗⲟⲥ [n.allophylos], from a historical-literary and cultural perspective. The study focuses on the predictions of the Λόγος Τέλειος, corresponding to Asclepius 24 in its Latin version and ⲗⲟⲅⲟⲥ ⲧⲉⲗⲉⲓⲟⲥ (Nag Hammadi VI.8 [70.3-71.29]) in its Coptic version, with particular emphasis on sociocultural interaction in Roman Egypt.
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Waters of Otherness and Unity: the Mediterranean and the Western Currents of Non-Dualist Thought
Leandro BERTONCELLO
Original title: Águas de alteridade e de unidade: o Mediterrâneo e as correntes ocidentais do pensamento não dualista
Published in Intercultural Mediterranean
Keywords: Mediterranean, Non-dualism, Unity of Being, Western philosophy.
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This article analyzes the development of non-dualist thought in the Mediterranean, challenging the traditional view that restricts it to Eastern spiritualities. Based on the region’s dynamics of fragmentation and connectivity, it argues that the search for the unity of Being permeated various Western philosophical traditions, from Parmenides to Ramon Llull. The circulation of ideas in the Mediterranean fostered the formulation of concepts that reject the absolute separation between subject and object, spirit and matter, divine and human. Furthermore, the study examines how modern philosophical historiography marginalized or reinterpreted non-dualist currents in the West, emphasizing dualism as a dominant feature. The reassessment of this intellectual legacy allows for the recognition of the Mediterranean as a space of philosophical synthesis, where unity and multiplicity were reconciled within a distinct tradition. Thus, the article proposes a critical reevaluation that situates Western non-dualism within a broader framework of intellectual history.
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The definition of religion in Saint Augustine (354-430), a man of the Mediterranean
Luís Carlos Silva de SOUSA
Original title: A definição de religião em Santo Agostinho (354-430), homem do Mediterrâneo
Published in Intercultural Mediterranean
Keywords: God, Religion, Saint Augustine, Transcendence, Truth.
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The objective of this article is to analyze Saint Augustine’s definition of religion in De uera religione (LV, 113). Two central aspects are highlighted: 1) religion understood as religatio with the one omnipotent God, and 2) a relationship between the human mind and Truth, with the inner light playing a central role. Interiority constitutes a privileged access to God’s transcendence.
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Byzantines and Muslims based on the Erchempert of the Montecassino’s Ystoriola (c. 887)
Felipe Augusto RIBEIRO
Original title: Gentes mediterrânicas: encontros étnicos entre lombardos, francos, bizantinos e muçulmanos a partir da Ystoriola de Erchemperto de Montecassino (c. 887)
Published in Intercultural Mediterranean
Keywords: Chronicle, Ethnography, Mediterranean, Montecassino.
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This work deals with interethnic encounters in the south of the Italian Peninsula in the 9th century, based on the chronicle entitled Ystoriola (or Historia Langobardorum Beneventanorum), written around 887 by the monk Erchemperto of Montecassino. The investigation is driven by a problematization of this text: how did the chronicler portray the people – Lombards, Franks, Byzantines and Muslims – who travelled through the region? The objective is to highlight an example of the ethnography practiced by these monks, that is, the way in which such ethnic groups were portrayed. The article uses an analytical-descriptive and comparative methodology and, from a theoretical point of view, employs the categories of alterity/otherness and ethnicity. The result of the analysis is the proposition of Montecassino as a “pan-Mediterranean” monastery, an important axis – and, therefore, a privileged place for historical observation – of the polycentric circuit that crossed the Mediterranean and allowed the transit of all the people who inhabited its shores.
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Perception of otherness in the Chronikè Diéghesis of Niketas Choniates (c.1155-1217)
Marica COSTIGLIOLO
Original title: Percezione dell’alterità nell’opera Chronikè Diéghesis di Niceta Coniata (c.1155-1217)
Published in Intercultural Mediterranean
Keywords: Byzantium, Mediterranean, Niketas Choniates, Otherness.
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The Mediterranean and Byzantium are crucial for understanding the cultural interactions between different peoples and different traditions. In this paper I will examine the work Chronikè Diéghesis by Niketas Choniates (c. 1155-1217) to highlight the profound cultural exchange in the Eastern Empire. These exchanges occurred in the most disparate ways, and with trade and military apparatus. Therefore, I will trace a theoretical paradigm for the analysis of otherness, throughout the works of contemporary philosophers, to highlight the salient characteristics of Chronikè Diéghesis in relation to the perception of cultural difference.
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The genesis of royal power in Mediterranean Europe: lulian reflections in his pedagogical and apologetic work, the Book of Contemplation in God (1271-1274)
Gabriel Tebaldi MEIRA; Ricardo da COSTA
Original title: A gênese do poder régio na Europa Mediterrânea: reflexões lulianas em sua obra pedagógica e apologética, o Livro da Contemplação em Deus (1271-1274)
Published in Intercultural Mediterranean
Keywords: Medieval Europe, Political Theology, Ramon Llull, Royal Power, The Book of Contemplation in God.
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This article explores the conception of divine and earthly power in Ramon Llull’s Philosophy (1232-1316), with a focus on the relationship between political and divine authority as presented in the Book of the Contemplation in God (1271-1274). Llull, situated in the medieval context of Mediterranean Europe, argues that all power – including that of kings – is a concession from God and must therefore be subordinated to His will. Based on this premise, the author proposes that rulers must exercise their authority with virtue and justice, always in harmony with divine purposes. This line of thought reflects not only the political and religious tensions of the time. Llull’s analysis reveals a pedagogical and apologetic perspective, in which political power is seen to achieve the salvation of the soul, emphasizing the need for governance oriented toward the spiritual good of society.
