Antonio CORTIJO & Vicent MARTINES

Original title: Presentació

Guillem CHISMOL

Original title: Estado, nación y sentimiento nacional en la Baja Edad Media

The article analyses the formation of the modern state during the later middle ages (13th-15th centuries) in Western Europe. It links the formation of this to the elites close to the monarch with the deployment of complex strategies of collective identification of the notables with the monarchy, the country and the national community. Attention is also given to the materiality of the State, present through permanent taxation, which in turn generated national feelings.

Maria SAIZ RAIMUNDO

Original title: L’arbre i la llum. Signes i significacions al Llibre d’amic e amat de Ramon Llull

All the creatures are divided into signs and significates: all signs are things, and, in addition, there are significant. In the Middle Ages, the world is a place of theophanys and, therefore, all creatures and all creation are sign of God. Thus, the signs become a fundamental element of a medieval culture and, obviously, they also play an important role in the literature of the time. In this work, we suggest proposing identifying and analyzing two of the elements that have an important significance in the Llibre d'amic i amat by Ramon Llull: the tree and the light. This element serves the hermit (l’amic) in the cam to the search of God (l’amat), since they are at the service of the first Llull intention: to love, to understand and to serve God.

Julia BUTIÑÁ JIMÉNEZ

Original title: El paso de la Filosofía a la Ética: Ramón Llull y Bernat Metge

At the beginning of the secular philosophy, there is the transition from Philosophy to Ethics, which inaugurated in the thirteenth century Ramon Llull, who assimilates Bernat Metge in his humanistic dialogue Lo somni in the next century. It will involve the transition from the Middle Ages to the Modern, passing from Humanism to the Renaissance.

Sònia GROS LLADÓS

Original title: Horaci en Curial e Güelfa?

This article analyzes the possible presence of Horace, not studied so far by the specialists, in the novel Curial e Güelfa. Firstly, the most obvious points of contact are established: the relevance of the classical deities of poetry, Apol·lo and Bacchus, and the respective domains to which they were associated. The transmission of classical texts is revised through the exegetic tradition of the Commedia and finally a proposal of the Anonymous Catalan author’s interpretation is offered.

Cèlia NADAL PASCUAL

Original title: Comentar Ausiàs March. El cant CXVIII

Commentary of the song CXVIII by Ausiàs March. A premise contextualizes this sample within a wider project; it includes a short methodological guidelines. The commentary includes a complete paraphrase of the text and an interpretative reading, with special reference to the articulation of the meaning.

Carles FENOLLOSA

Original title: La memòria de Català de Valleriola (1568-1608) en la bibliografia del segle XVI al XX

This paper provides a general view of the memory which the subsequent bibliographers left about Bernat Català de Valleriola in their works from the XVIth to the XXth.

Elia CALBO BOTELLA

Original title: Edició i Estudi de la Relació de la Festa de Sant Tomàs (1656), de Josep Aragonés

This article presents the study and regularized spelling edition of Relació de la Festa de Sant Tomàs written by the Valencian notary Josep Aragonés in 1656. This, is our intention to make an approximation to its author and to the text. Finally, we offer the edition of the aforementioned relation, using the criterion of regularized spelling, since the original has not been preserved, but we must start whit an edition made at beginning of the 20th century. Our purpose is to present this edition as one more step in the process of recovering texts in Catalan during the modern age.

María Luz MANDINGORRA LLAVATA, José Vicente BOSCÁ CODINA

Original title: Los incunables de la Catedral de Valencia: huellas de una llibreria vella y antiga

The Valencia Cathedral presently retains 117 incunabula which correspond to 85 different editions. The aim of this article is to show the origin and development of this collection since the Late Middle Ages until today. To this end, we have studied the material features of the books, especially their marks of ownership and provenance. In addition to this, we have analyzed four inventories of the Valencian Chapter Library that were conducted throughout the 16th, 17th and 19th centuries, as well as the inventory prepared by José Sanchis Sivera (1930) and the Catalogue published by Elías Olmos Canalda in 1951. This analysis has allowed us to identify many of the editions preserved today by the Cathedral along with others that have been lost over time, for reasons ranging from the expurgations during the 16th and 17th centuries to a possible transfer to other institutions. Besides, we have been able to establish the early constitution of the collection, since almost 60% of the editions owned at present by the Valencia Cathedral were already there in the middle of the 16th century.