The two bodies of the king in Anglo-Saxon England
Nachman FALBEL and Elton O. S. MEDEIROS
Original title: Os dois corpos do rei na Inglaterra Anglo-Saxônica
Published in Aristocracy and nobility in the Ancient and Medieval World
Keywords: Anglo-Saxon England, Beowulf, Royalty, Society.
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.
The uniqueness of Manueline bi faceted crucifixes between phantasmatic displacements in artistic contemporaneity
Alexandre Emerick NEVES
Original title: A singularidade dos cruzeiros bifacetados manuelinos entre deslocamentos fantasmais na contemporaneidade artística
Published in
Keywords: Anachronism, Fragmented body, Pietà, Portuguese-Brazilian culture, Warburguian phantasmal model.
To promote a historical-cultural crossing, I highlight the use of a figural fragment and its correspondences in historical aesthetic models: the pendant arm. From these relationships, a genealogy of the figuration of the body is consolidated, especially from the studies of Georges Didi-Huberman on the survival of the images, notably according to the ghostly model of Aby Warburg. In admitting the figure of the heroic body as a derivation of the figure of the holy body in previous work, I now propose an anachronistic and remissive path, starting with a short contemporary cinematographic scene, in About Schmidt (2002), to arrive at the medieval Portuguese Pietàs in the singular typology of Manueline bifaceted crucifix. My attention, therefore, falls on a significant deviation in relation to the axial paths of Art History, in order to regain a contact between Brazilian art and Portuguese culture, whose connections I suppose are considerably attenuated.
The victorious life and the disenchanted end of the great Macedonian conqueror Alexander the Great and the novelesque knight Tirant lo Blanc
Anastasia TERZOPOULOU
Original title: La vida victoriosa y el final desencantado del gran conquistador macedonio Alejandro Magno y del caballero novelesco Tirant lo Blanc
Published in Mirabilia Journal
Keywords: Ambition, Conquests, Death, Feats, Fortune, Testament.
The aim of this article is not to analyze the details of the life of Tirant lo Blanc, a literary figure from the Valencian Golden Age, and Alexander the Great, King of Macedonia, a real historical person of Ancient Greece; but to expose the common features that life presents and, above all, the early, bitter and unexpected end of two great warriors and military strategists.
The victorious life and the disenchanted end of the great Macedonian conqueror Alexander the Great and the novelesque knight Tirant lo Blanc
Anastasia TERZOPOULOU
Original title: La vida victoriosa y el final desencantado del gran conquistador macedonio Alejandro Magno y del caballero novelesco Tirant lo Blanc
Published in
Keywords: Ambition, Conquests, Death, Feats, Fortune, Testament.
The aim of this article is not to analyze the details of the life of Tirant lo Blanc, a literary figure from the Valencian Golden Age, and Alexander the Great, King of Macedonia, a real historical person of Ancient Greece; but to expose the common features that life presents and, above all, the early, bitter, and unexpected end of two great warriors and military strategists.
The war as a metaphor in the religious art in Middle Ages
María Laura Montemurro
Original title: La guerra como metáfora en el arte religioso de la Edad Media
Published in The chivalry and the art of war in the Ancient and Medieval World
Keywords: Christianity, Medieval Art, Military Iconography.
The war in Epitoma rei militaris by Flavius Vegetius: between christian faith and barbarian pressure
Raphael Leite Teixeira
Original title: A guerra no Epitoma rei militaris de Flávio Vegécio (séc. IV d.C.): entre a fé cristã e a pressão bárbara
Published in The chivalry and the art of war in the Ancient and Medieval World
Keywords: Basileia, Late roman army, Military history, Vegetius.
The war in Waltharius
Gabriela Monti
Original title: La guerra en el Waltharius (vv. 644-1061)
Published in The chivalry and the art of war in the Ancient and Medieval World
Keywords: Enemies, Waltharius, hero.
The war in the Crónica del Rey Don Pedro by the Chancellor López de Ayala
Cecilia Devia
Original title: La guerra en la Crónica del Rey Don Pedro del Canciller López de Ayala
Published in The chivalry and the art of war in the Ancient and Medieval World
Keywords: Chronicles, Middle Ages, War.
The written sources of the Byzantine tradition on the Dormition and the Assumption of the Virgin
Spyros P. PANAGOPOULOS
Original title: Les sources littéraires de la tradition byzantine sur la Dormition et l’Assomption de la Vierge
Published in Rhythms, expressions and representations of the body
Keywords: Assomption, Byzance, Dormition, Sources littéraires, Vierge Marie.
Cet article traite de la littérature grécophone à l’époque byzantine, à propos de la Dormition de la Vierge. La littérature sur la Dormition, si elle a fait l’objet d’études par de nombreux chercheurs jusqu’à présent, néanmoins une brève revue de ces textes a été jugée nécessaire, puisqu’ils sont les principales sources d’inspiration pour l’iconographie du spectacle. Pour une meilleure présentation, ces textes sont classés en apocryphes, hagiographiques, homilétiques-patristiques. De plus, au début de l’article, un examen des rapports sur la fin terrestre de Théotokos avant la création du corps de la littérature concernée est suggéré.
The ğihād and his substitute, the ribāṭ, in the traditional Islam: Evolution from a militaristic and collective spirit towards an inner and individual spirituality
Francisco FRANCO-SÁNCHEZ
Original title: El ğihād y su sustituto el ribāṭ en el Islam tradicional: Evolución desde un espíritu militarista y colectivo hacia una espiritualidad interior e individual
Published in The Middle Ages and the Crusades
Keywords: Holy-War, Islam, Ribāṭ, Spirituality, Ğihād.
At the beginning Ğihād was in Islam a militaristic spirit that articulates a defence of the religion, or what is the same, of the Muslim State, by means of arms. When in the first century of the Hegira it becomes impossible to continue the expansion of the Islamic State, the Ribāṭ was articulated as a substitute for Ğihād. It involved the internalization of the same spirituality, now understood not as a collective and official precept, but as individual command and internal fight. We revise the data from Arab sources about the Ribāṭ and its performance in the building known as rābiṭa. The function of these buildings, historiography, juridical frame, religious life and the economy related to the rābiṭa-s are explained. Toponymic traces and material vestiges of the rābiṭa-s at the eastern coast of the Iberian Peninsula, especially those found in Guardamar del Segura are explained as well.
