Four brushstrokes for Flamenca (XIII century)
Anton Maria ESPADALER
Original title: Cuatro pinceladas para Flamenca (siglo XIII)
Published in
Keywords: Flamenca, Gautier de Châtillon, Mont Musart, Picompan, Raoul de Houdenc, Étienne de Fougères.
El artículo toma en consideración cuatro pasos del Roman de Flamenca y propone su relación con otros textos, franceses y latinos.
Frederick Barbarossa’s last crusade on the Liber ad Honorem Augusti
Nachman FALBEL and Vinicius Cesar Dreger de ARAÚJO
Original title: A última Cruzada de Frederico Barbarossa no Liber ad Honorem Augusti
Published in The Middle Ages and the Crusades
Keywords: Byzantine Empire, Crusade, Frederick I, Holy Roman Empire.
This paper wants to study the iconography about Frederick Barbarossa’s expedition in the Third Crusade in the Liber ad Honorem Augusti of Petrus de Ebulo, composed to laudate Henry VI in late XIIth century. Thus, we looked for the comprehension of the images in various contexts: from their origins – the Norman Kingdom of Sicily – and the proper crusade of Barbarossa.
Free Hugs: Humanized actions for reception of candidates in the admission exam for Medicine – Experience report
Luciano Antônio RODRIGES, Victor Hugo de Castro e SILVA, Pâmela de Sousa DIAS, Diego de Oliveira BENTO, Isabela Marques HYGINO, Eduarda Paes Fontoura Alves dos SANTOS
Original title: Abraços Grátis: Ações humanizadas de acolhimento de candidatos em vestibular de medicina – Relato de Experiência
Published in
Keywords: College Entrance, Free Hugs, Medical Humanities, Welcome.
The Free Hugs Company is a social movement that involve people who offer free hugs for strangers at public spaces. The "Free Hugs" was idealized in 2001 by an Australian called "Juan Mann" who had an objective to break the agitated routine of day-to-day with one unusual and uncommon act: to give hugs. Affording one way of permutation: sadness to happiness. Against the difficulties of getting into the university, like the value of the enrollment in college entrance, the distance of the family, and the tension and all the preparations that predates the arrival at the tests place, Free Hugs was developed by one group of academics of the course of medicine in UNESC during the college admission exam in 2015. This movement had the objective to establish a humanized host action, offering free hugs at the place of examination, demonstrating to the students who were going to do the test of college admission, recognizing their potential and efforts in that moment, and helping them to assuage anxiety.
From Dream Fantasy to Spiritual Balance
Anna Isabel PEIRATS NAVARRO
Original title: De la fantasia del somni a l’equilibri espiritual
Published in
Keywords: Dream, Fantasy, Il Corbaccio, Matheolus, Spill, Spiritual vision.
In this article we reflect on the meaning given to dreams in medieval literature. First, the dream is distinguished in the strict sense of the vision or dream revealing spiritual guarantee, which implies a change in behavior. From the sacred texts, the Bible and the Holy Parents, is reflected that the pleasing dream comes from the divine designs, while the bad dream has its origin in the evil one. The influence of sleep is a concern for all aspects of medieval society, to the point that moralists recommend being alert and not giving way to the influence of the dangers of the night. In the literature, from the experience of the Somnium Scipionis compiled by Macrobio in the sixth book of De Republica of Ciceron, or the romanic views of the Roman de la Rose, the relations regarding content, structure, form and rhetorical resources are recurring in works such as Il Corbaccio of Boccaccio, the Livre des Lamentations of Matheolus and the Spill of Jaume Roig.
From Palma to Princeton: Reconstruction and translation of the (lost) Gothic-Renaissance staircase of Calle del Agua
Enric MALLORQUÍ-RUSCALLEDA
Original title: De Palma a Princeton: Reconstrucción y traducción de la escalinata (perdida) gótico-renacentista de la Calle del Agua
Published in Returning to Eden
Keywords: Architecture, Gothic-Renaissance, Heritage, Inscriptions, Mallorca, Medieval Catalan, Princeton University Art Museum, Reconstruction, Restoration, Translation.
In this paper, the staircase on Calle del Agua in Palma de Mallorca, previously considered lost, is studied from its documented Gothic-Renaissance historical context by Domenge Mesquida and Byne to its heritage significance. Specifically, it explains my experience as a researcher with the staircase, having to face complex challenges in identifying, reconstructing, and translating into English the inscriptions that adorn it. For the first time, the transcription and translation of the text on the stairway –medieval Catalan prayers– are presented, accompanied by photographs, thus highlighting its cultural and spiritual relevance. The collaboration of the curator from the Princeton University Art Museum in this significant discovery of Mallorca's architectural legacy is also acknowledged.
From bestiaries to the Iconology of Cesare Ripa: the construction of political and religious representations at the dawn of the Modern Age
Maria Leonor García da CRUZ
Original title: Dos bestiários à Iconologia de César Ripa: a construção de representações políticas e religiosas nos alvores da Época Moderna
Published in Ramon Llull. Seventh centenary
Keywords: Bestiary, Fox, Iconology, Machiavelli, Reform, Wolf.
Wolves and foxes, traditionally chosen as representatives of the threat to the sheep that were led by the Pope, Pastor of souls, were animals used both positively and negatively in religious and profane literature, in bestiaries, emblem books and in the “Iconology” of Cesare Ripa in the late 16th century. Putting special emphasis on the latter and comparing political thought and 16th-entury movements of spirituality, I shall attempt to explain meanings in the textual and pictorial representations of the time, in an approach that is part of the “Imagery Studies” of Lisbon University’s History Centre.
From the sagesse des troubadours to the polite allegory of Ramon Llull
Anna Maria COMPAGNA
Original title: De la sagesse des troubadours al alegorismo cortés de Ramon Llull
Published in
Keywords: Laicism, Middle Ages, Ramon Lull, Troubadours.
If certain comparisons between works rarely go beyond superficial analogies, the concept of a figure allows us to frame in a new light the affinity of some of Llull’s works with troubadour poetry, where the lady as a metaphor for Wisdom and as a folkloric epiphany presages what which will be the courteous allegorism of Ramon Llull. The importance that Llull gives to the metaphor finds part of his matrix in the love story of the troubadours.
Gauberte Fabricio de Vagad (author of the first Crónica del reino de Aragón) and his poetic work in the repertoires and songbooks of his time
Jesús Fernando CÁSEDA TERESA
Original title: auberte Fabricio de Vagad (autor de la primera Crónica del reino de Aragón) y su obra poética en los repertorios y cancioneros de su tiempo
Published in Mirabilia Journal 34
Keywords: Chronicle of Aragon, Dolce stil nuovo, Gauberte, XVth century.
This study links the creator of the first Chronicle of Aragon with the one who appears with his name in the songbooks of his time, establishing the common identity of both. It traces his biography –family origins, his birth in Zaragoza between 1415 and 1420, his military and clerical life and his relationship with the printer Pablo Hurus–. It fixes his poetic corpus and analyzes his compositions, especially those collected in the Cancionero de Vindel. Among the themes he deals with, his attacks on stilnovism, his defence of the feminine condition and some forms of literary and poetic divertimento stand out.
Giotto and the Purgatory: the difficult mission to save a usurer´s soul
Fátima Regina FERNANDES and Michelle MASCHIO
Original title: Giotto e o Purgatório: a difícil missão de salvar a alma de um usurário
Published in Paradise, Purgatory and Hell: the Religiosity in the Middle Ages
Keywords: Avarice, Giotto, Injustice, Purgatory, Usury.
The institution of the Purgatory provides a third way for the destination of the souls after death. It was driven by the appearance of the new social stratum, associated with trade, and translated the need of change, because each time more, the ideas and explanations of simplistic character were refused and the society turned against the antagonistic models. In 1303, Giotto is invited to paint a fresco cycle for Enrico Scrovegni, paduan usurer and son of the recently deceased Reginaldo Scrovegni; mentioned by Dante due to his extreme avarice. Enrico, after the death of his father, maybe had thought something to hurry Reginaldo’s arrival in Paradise. From the Scrovegni Chapel, with its extensive and varied iconographic cycle, we want to focus our attention on the fresco, whose theme is Injustice.
God Can not be Understood. God's Incomprehensibility in the Liber XXIV philosophorum (Chapters XVI & XVII) and its Roots in the Western Philosophical Tradition
Jan G. J. ter Reegen
Original title: Deus não pode ser conhecido. A incognoscibilidade divina no Livro dos XXIV Filósofos (XVI e XVII) e suas raízes na tradição filosófica ocidental
Published in Expressing the Divine: Language, Art and Mysticism
Keywords: Being beyond being, First cause, First principle, Ineffability.
The Liber XXIV Philosophorum in its XVIth e XVIIth thesis tells us about the ineffability of God as a consequence of His excellence and also in view of the fact that God can only think Himself. In this paper we will try to examine the base and dimensions of this statement, studying it as a part of a long tradition in ancient and medieval philosophy, i.e. Neoplatonism, and especially in the Liber de Causis.
