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.

Lidia Raquel MIRANDA

Original title: Palabras mojadas. Representación de las pasiones y metáforas acuáticas en Noé de Ambrosio de Milán

Published in Senses and sensibilities in classical and medieval worlds

Keywords: Ambrose of Milan, Metaphor, Noah, Passions, Water.

De Noe by Ambrose of Milan (ca. 378) reflects on the human condition and the consequences of man's actions in the natural order. The Christian commentator exposes the patriarch’s life, customs and acts since an allegorical interpretation of Scripture and considering him as the prototype of the just and wise man, crossed by passions but who manages to choose the right path. The ark is a symbol of the world, from which it is possible understand the system of analogies on which the text is based, since it is also a representative figure of the body and the person. Thus, the ark is presented as the condition of sinners –unstable, corruptible, and at the mercy of the swings of the soul–, a figure that gives rise to a set of metaphors around water and aquatic issues. We focus on the philological and discursive analysis of these metaphors with the aim of explaining their symbolic projections and their moral reach.

Maria de la Pau JANER

Original title: Quan el monstre es diu Barbablava

Published in

Keywords: Bluebeard, Chamber prohibited, False travel, Perrault, Tales husband killer, The husband monstrous, Transgression.

This paper provides a general overview of one of the figures of sixteenth century Valencian literature, Bernat Català de Valeriola, and his lesser well-known diary, one of the best examples of the Valencian memorialistic works of that period

Pedro Carlos Louzada FONSECA, Márcia Maria de Melo ARAÚJO

Original title: Mulher e erotismo na lírica trovadoresca galego-portuguesa

Published in Mulier aut Femina. Idealism or reality of women in the Middle Ages

Keywords: Cantigas de amigo, Eroticism, Galician-Portuguese troubadour lyric.

It is an approach of the female images reproduced in the cantigas de amigo “Fui eu, madre, lavar meus cabelos” by Johan Soarez Coelho and “Levou s’ aa alva, levou s’ a velida” by Pero Meogo, both outstanding troubadours Galician-Portuguese. In the cantigas de amigo, eroticism appears as the theme of the possibility of satisfaction, of promise, of desire or its negation, and of the closeness of happiness. In this sense, it is intended in this paper to reflect on the recurring images in the lyricism of these minstrels and how ethical elements of loyalty, courage, tenderness are treated by an erotic-cultural aspect that makes the medieval nobility capable of transforming the sufferings of love into beauty, offering in this way a meaning and a suitable value for feeling.