Vinicius Cesar Dreger de ARAUJO

Original title: Dux et Rex: poder e legitimidade nas representações imagéticas dos governantes boêmios na Idade Média Central

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Keywords: Duchy of Bohemia, Holy Roman Empire, Kingdom of Bohemia, Middle Ages, Political Iconography.

In the vast anthology of Minnerlyrik (now known as Große Heidelberger Liederhandschrift or more commonly Codex Manesse), compiled during the first decades of the fourteenth century, commissioned by Rüdiger Manesse and his son, we can highlight the presence of the single author (from the 137 catalogued there) proven as a non-German: the King “Wenzel von Behein” (in Hochmitteldeutsch) or, more appropriately, Václav II of Bohemia. Our study begins with the analysis of iconographic representation in the consolidated state. Next, we will perform an analysis of the key elements of power, authority and legitimacy of power of the Bohemian dukes. Then we will start an “Archaeology of Representations” from a imagery corpus based primarily on Numismatics and Sigillography, whose pieces are included in a chronological arc extending from 1086 to 1278, from which we will draw a critical study of the development path both of images as the power and legitimacy of these rulers and expressed by them in the same representations. Increasingly, the use of analysis of iconographical representations allows the medievalists to reassess the political history of the Middle Ages, enabling us to have deeper insights on the Political Culture developed in many different European regions. The images and sources discussed here aim to develop a study about Bohemia, the region which is roughly the territory of the Czech Republic today: a duchy, then a kingdom of great material wealth and great political importance between the thirteenth and fifteenth centuries, but virtually unknown by the Brazilian medievalist historiography.

Josemi Lorenzo Arribas

Published in The Philosophical Tradition in the Ancient and Medieval World

Keywords: Music, fantastic animals, misogeny, musical iconography.

Lydia H. RODRÍGUEZ

Original title: La emoción como búsqueda de la sabiduría en El Primero Sueño de Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1651-1695)

Published in Emotions in the Ancient and Medieval Mediterranean World

Keywords: Dualism, Freedom, Intellectual search, Sor Juana, soul.

The following article analyzes emotion as a human intellectual quest; this search can be considered a positive emotion. As Plato once said the use of logic and reason to channel our emotions makes something constructive that leads to the truth. This human need of emotion to seek human understanding is presented in Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz. Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz expresses her imagination, creativity and genius through her extraordinary verses in the poem Primero Sueño. In this masterpiece of baroque literature, Sor Juana’s intellectual power as a writer, her deep curiosity and especially her pursuit of wisdom is displayed. Under a truly complex surface, there is a current of emotional distress. In the poem, the reader can appreciate Sor Juana’s internal struggle and the sense of desolation that she experiences. This suffering is evident and manifests itself in a constant tension between several contradictory elements in the poem. Finally, Sor Juana attempts to capture the human experience and achieve a complete understanding of the universe in Primero Sueño. She attempts this through her emotional view of the world in which she lives and interprets.

Sandra Helena PEREIRA

Original title: Posição do Conselho Regional de Medicina do Espírito Santo (CRM-ES) e do Conselho Federal de Medicina (CFM) sobre o abortamento voluntário

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Keywords: Abortion – Bioethics – Health Policy – Legalization of Abortion.

This work presents the official position of Espírito Santo’s Regional Council of Medicine and of the Brazilian Federal Council of Medicine on voluntary abortion liberation. It also tries to show several aspects that should be taken into account when discussing such question, which remains controversial in Brazilian society.