Ricardo da Costa

Original title: Prefácio: A nobreza, fonte espiritual da civilização ocidental

Julia Butiñá Jiménez

Original title: Presentación

Jan G. J. TER REEGEN and Ana Alice MENESCAL

Original title: As paixões em A República e Íon de Platão: possibilidades do pensar filosófico

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).

Jan Gerard Joseph TER REEGEN and Tito Barros LEAL

Original title: Édipo em Colona à luz da filosofia ética aristotélica

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.

Carlos Alberto SERTÃ

Original title: A Diagramação Epigráfica na inscrição honorária pompeiana de Marcus Holconius Rufus

This paper examines the work of the lapidaries’ ordering on the epigraph of Marcus Marcus Holconius Rufus in Pompeii.

Nachman FALBEL and Elton O. S. MEDEIROS

Original title: Os dois corpos do rei na Inglaterra Anglo-Saxônica

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.

Lincoln Etchebéhère JUNIOR and Thiago Pereira de Sousa LEPINSKI

Original title: Cristandade Oriental: a Igreja Etíope na Idade Média

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.

Mariel V. PÉREZ

Original title: Estrategias de alianza y reproducción social en la aristocracia medieval leonesa: los Flaínez (siglos X-XI)

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.

Pedro Carlos Louzada FONSECA

Original title: A nobreza cristológica de animais no bestiário medieval: o exemplo do Leão e do Unicórnio

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.

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

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.

Manuela Santos SILVA and Alice TAVARES

Original title: David Negro: un judío cortesano en la coyuntura portuguesa de 1383- 1385

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.

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

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.

Antonio CONTRERAS MARTÍN

Original title: Nobleza y Feminidad en la Georgia Medieval: Tinatín y Nestán

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.

Cecilia DEVIA

Original title: La nobleza castellana bajomedieval y el rey: construcción y redistribución del poder

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.

Matteo RASCHIETTI

Original title: As imagens da nobreza na vida e nas obras de Mestre Eckhart

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.

Fernando MORENO CUADRO

Original title: Origen de las casas principales del señorío de Fuentecubierta (Córdoba, España)

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.

Moisés Romanazzi TÔRRES

Original title: Aristocracia e Nobreza em Dante Alighieri

One of the essential elements of the whole Political Philosophy of Dante Alighieri was your considerations about the aristocracy and the nobility. For him, the two notions are different although in a certain way they correspond to the same matters. This aristocracy, however, it will only reach the divine talent that is the true nobility if it be educated according to the parameters of the Aristotelian philosophy. It is this, in fact, the ethical theme of the Convivio. In Commedia, Dante persists in these ideas. It is exactly for this reason that he reserves the Limbo the great wise persons of the Antiquity. In the one of Monarchia, he treats of the relationships between the supreme nobleman, the emperor, and the princes, the private noblemen that lead the human crowds.

Rosa PLANAS FERRER

Original title: El concepte d’aristocràcia espiritual en el llibre primer del Kuzari

The objective of the following work is showing, through the First Book of Kuzari, by Iehuda Halevi, firstly translated into Catalonian by Rabbi Jordi Gendra, one of the first formulations of the aristocratic origin of the Jewish population, defended by one of the most important poets of Judaism during the Jewish Diaspora. The book explains that through a divine selection, Israel is constituted as the authentic aristocracy of the world, due to its condition of a prophetic population it is situated over the rest of populations and in the Creational scale it’s only superadded by angels.

Vicent JOSEP ESCARTÍ

Original title: La imagen de la nobleza, según Rafael Martí de Viciana (s. XVI): del pasado medieval al proyecto imperial

The present paper makes an analysis of the concept of "nobility" throughout the work of the notary and valencian noble Rafael Martí de Viciana (1502-1582). Across his writings we can see clearly how Viciana, on the paper, combined the ancient and medieval origins of the local nobility with the privileges given by the crown in more recent times, to incorporate the nobles of his time to the new imperial project Carlos V for the Hispanic monarchy.

Júlia BUTINYÀ I JIMÉNEZ

Original title: Les noves aristocràcia i noblesa a les acaballes de l’Edat Mitjana a través de la novel•la catalana Curial e Güelfa

Luciana Rosar Fornazari KLANOVICZ

Original title: Os manuais de História da Educação e a educação medieval: aproximações e distanciamentos na historiografia sobre Idade Média

This article addresses interpretations on medieval education available in Education History handbooks in the light of a historiography reading on the topic. Therefore, Paul Monroe’s História da Educação, Edward Myers’ La educación en la perspectiva de la historia, Mario Manacorda’s História da educação, and Franco Cambi’s História da Pedagogia have been analyzed. Amidst any discourse disputes, knowledge on Middle Ages within Education History has also been losing quality or becoming rather symbolic in physical space or time periods, in order to guarantee the identification of western civilization with secularization, progress, and civilization conceived as the ideal society meant to be constructed for the contemporary age.