Júlia BUTIÑYÀ I JIMÉNEZ; Ricardo da COSTA

Original title: A Decadência do Estilo como Decadência da Alma na Filosofia Estoica de Sêneca, o Jovem (4 a.C.-65 d.C.)

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What are the symptoms of a Culture’s decline? What are the reasons for a Civilization’s downfall? In the Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium of the philosopher Seneca the Younger (4 BC - 65 AD), there are letters (n. 114, 115) in which the Stoic master relates the decline of style to the decline of the soul, the main theme of this article.

Beatriz Passamai PEREIRA

Original title: O apogeu da lírica do Minnesang na Tradição Ocidental: Walther von der Vogelweide (1170-1230)

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This article presents one of the most notorious medieval troubadours, the quintessential Minnesänger, Walther von der Vogelweide, as well as a brief overview of the German-speaking troubadour movement, the Minnesang. Based on accounts from several authors and observations of songs by this troubadour, we aim to familiarize the reader with the lyric poetry of this period, highlighting its relevance, as it undoubtedly constituted the apogee of the medieval literary tradition in the West, a landmark for an entire civilization.

Júlia BUTIÑYÀ I JIMÉNEZ

Original title: Flashback internacional sobre Ramon Llull (1232-1316): de Maiorca e Alicante ao Vaticano

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Conference presented at the XXIX International Symposium: Intercultural transfers, education, Linguistic variation in the Mediterranean. From innovation to canon, La Nucia, Alicante, April 21 and 22, 2026.

Matheus Corassa da SILVA

Original title: N’y rien faire entrer qui ne fust conforme à la vérité: Luís XIV (1648-1715) em ascensão no conjunto decorativo da Grande Galerie em Versalhes

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This article examines the decorative program of the Grande Galerie at Versailles, grounded in the notion of the body politic as the foundation of Louis XIV’s sovereignty (1648-1715). Drawing on the doctrine of the king’s two bodies, it argues that in the seventeenth-century French context, power was not primarily consolidated through juridical or doctrinal means, but through visual and ceremonial mechanisms that established the monarch’s body as the core of political unity. Within this framework, the artistic production of Charles Le Brun (1619-1690) played a decisive role in transforming the royal image into an instrument for the presentification of power. Through an analysis of the Grande Galerie, the article demonstrates how this space represents the culmination of a progressive iconographic system, in which earlier allegorical representations gave way to the explicit centrality of Louis XIV’s figure. The gallery thus functions as an expanded portrait of the monarch, integrating painting, architecture, and decoration into a holistic depiction that identifies the king’s body with the very functioning of the State. In this context, Louis XIV is no longer merely represented but effectively presentified – that is, rendered perceptible as an active and enduring body politic. The decorative ensemble is interpreted considering the concepts of image act (Bildakt) and figural evidence (Bildevidenz), supporting the argument that Le Brun’s images do not simply illustrate power, but actively produce and stabilize it, establishing a visual regime in which sovereignty appears as a sensible and incontestable reality.

Rodrigo Jungmann de CASTRO

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This article re-examines the alleged philosophical affinity between Spinoza and Marx, an association popularized in contemporary theory by authors such as Althusser, Balibar, and Negri. Against the prevailing “materialist Spinoza” reading, it argues that the resemblance between the two thinkers is largely rhetorical. Spinoza’s immanence is ontological, not historical; his materialism excludes the dialectic of production that defines Marx’s thought. Their anthropologies diverge likewise: for Spinoza, bondage arises from passion and ignorance; for Marx, from alienation and exploitation. The state, which for Spinoza is reason’s instrument, becomes for Marx the embodiment of domination. Even their critiques of illusion – superstition and ideology – belong to different explanatory orders, cognitive and structural respectively. What unites them is not shared materialism but shared hostility to transcendence. The result is a comparison in contrast: Spinoza’s politics of endurance against Marx’s politics of rupture.

André da Silva BUENO; Lucas Pinto SOARES

Original title: A escrita da história medieval nórdica: representação, memória e poder nas narrativas islandesas medievais (c. 1122-1133)

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This article analyzes the production of medieval Icelandic texts from the perspective of cultural history, emphasizing the relationships between memory, representation, and power. Through a bibliographical dialogue between authors who have examined the formation of these texts, such as Gísli Sigurðsson, and the theoretical contributions of Roger Chartier, we argue that these works are discursive constructions that actively participate in the organization of the social world, by reconfiguring oral traditions into written forms that select, organize, and attribute meaning to events. We contend that elements such as genealogy, chronology, and foundational events operate as mechanisms for structuring collective memory, while simultaneously reinforcing hierarchies and legitimizing social positions, particularly within the context of the political and institutional transformations that began in the twelfth century and continued throughout the thirteenth century. In this sense, the texts in question reveal themselves as mediators in the construction of the past, highlighting the role of writing in the production of representations, the definition of identities, and the consolidation of power structures in medieval Iceland.

Santiago-Andreu VALLÉS CASANOVES

Original title: L’herència llombartiana d'Adolf Pizcueta (1901-1989) i la reivindicació de la tradició foral de l’antiga Corona d’Aragó

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The recovery of the historical fact of the Kingdom of Valencia, created in the 13th century by King Jaume I, would inform the literary, historiographical, or political reclamation envisioned by contemporary Valencianism. This served to reclaim spaces for self-government, linguistic rights, privative legislation, and other forms of community life that were annihilated following the Bourbon victory in the War of Succession. Carmel Navarro Llombart (1848-1893), known as Constantí Llombart, was an exemplary figure in this regard, whom Adolf Pizcueta (1901-1989) and other Valencianists in the 20th Century would reclaim as a reference for the nascent political Valencianism.