About the ‘artificial habits’ in the lullian anthropology and the men spiritual upbeat
José G. Higuera Rubio
Original title: Acerca de los “hábitos artificiales” en la antropología luliana y el ascenso espiritual del hombre
Published in Ramon Llull (1232-1316): the cooperation among different cultures and the inter-religious dialogue
Keywords: Lullian Art, habitus artificialis, liberal arts, mechanics arts, medieval anthropology, medieval universities, students guides.
The concept of “habitus artificialis” in lullian anthropology involves the knowledge of the divines virtues -the nature’s secrets-, and it represents the spiritual way of human being. Similarly, some documents of medieval universities contain the natural knowledge and the transcendence of prime cause. Therefore the lullian though and the Student’s guides are the model of spiritual finality in the intellectual practice –liberal arts and Lullian Art- and that practice is defined like “habitus artificialis”.
Absolute vision and vision of the Absolute in Nicholas of Cusa
Claudia D’AMICO
Original title: Visión absoluta y visión de lo absoluto en Nicolás de Cusa
Published in Mystic and Millenarianism in Middle Ages
Keywords: Absolute vision, Middle Ages, Mystical vision, Neoplatonism, Nicholas of Cusa.
Introducing the topic of the mystical vision, Nicholas of Cusa becomes the heir of the Neoplatonic tradition while he supposes as the foundation of such a view the same absolute vision. However, his thought is characterized by a parallelism between absolute and human vision to the point that the man can make himself visible the vision of God only by means of selfcontemplation of the dynamism of his own vision.
Adoubement and Chivalry in the Feudal West: Gautier d’Arras’s Eracle (c. 1159-1184)
Guilherme Queiroz de SOUZA
Original title: Adoubement e Cavalaria no Ocidente feudal: o Eracle (c. 1159-1184) de Gautier d’Arras
Published in Medieval and Early Modern Iberian Peninsula Cultural History
Keywords: Adoubement, Eracle, Feudal West, Gautier d’Arras, chivalry.
The purpose of this article is to analyze the adoubement and the Chivalry in the Feudal West, through the emphasis on the romance Eracle, written by the French cleric Gautier d’Arras between 1159 and 1184. In this work, the protagonist hero is submitted to the adoubement (rite of passage) to join the Chivalry, category considered by some historians as the dominant institution during the Feudalism. We study the evolution and stages of the rite, as well as the main chivalric virtues (courage, loyalty and prudence), the concepts of largesse and prodomie and the art of war. For this, we utilize comparatively works of the 11-12th centuries.
Albert the Great and the treatise De Prudentia
Matteo RASCHIETTI
Original title: Alberto Magno e o tratado De Prudentia
Published in Nicholas of Cusa in Dialogue
Keywords: Albert the Great, Auriga, Prudence, Virtues.
Last part of the Summa creaturis (or Summa Parisiensis), written by the Doctor Universalis, the moral treatise De bono considers the good by the point of view moral and organizes the matter into five treaties. The fourth one is the De Prudentia, briefly presented in this article, that sticks his roots in the classical tradition, in the patristic and scholastic.
Alcuin of York: About the Soul and its Dignitates
Rubén A. Peretó Rivas
Original title: Alcuino de York: Sobre el Alma y sus Dignidades
Published in Mirabilia 4
Keywords: Memory, faculties, intellect, will.
The subject of this paper is the “dignities” or soul's faculties in the Alcuin's work. First, the author settles the notion of dignitates as Alcuin understands it in all his anthropologic treatises. Then, analyzes this concept in the most importants works where the Charlemagne's friend writes about the dignitates of intellect, memory and will, studying particularly the hierarchy, function and disposition of each according to the work where they appear.
Alfred the Great and the holy lineage of Wessex: the construction of a myth of origins in Anglo-Saxon England
Elton O. S. MEDEIROS
Original title: Alfred o Grande e a linhagem sagrada de Wessex: a construção de um mito de origem na Inglaterra anglo-saxônica
Published in Relations between History and Literature in Ancient and Medieval World
Keywords: Alfred, Anglo-Saxons, England, Myth, Society.
In the end of 9th century, the actions taken by King Alfred the Great were decisive for the survival of the Anglo-Saxon England against the Vikings. His cultural revival would change the Anglo-Saxon society, reinforcing the defenses of the kingdom, the politics and enable the unification of England in the mid-10th century under king Athelstan’s reign. However, the main reason behind this revival was not cultural but a spiritual. For this task, inspired by the works like Bede’s Historia Ecclesiastica, a myth of origins was forged. A myth that said the Anglo-Saxons were the spiritual heirs of the Hebrews of Old Testament. And their kings would be descendent of a holy lineage of a mysterious forth son of Noah. In this article we will analyze the elements of this myth, how was its construction and its importance for the Alfredian period.
Alienora Dei gratia regina Anglie. The potestas of the English queen Eleanor of Castile (1241-1290): status quaestionis
Andrea BERGAZ ÁLVAREZ
Original title: Alienora Dei gratia regina Anglie. La potestas de la reina Leonor de Castilla (1241-1290): status quaestionis
Published in Music in Antiquity, Middle Ages & Renaissance
Keywords: Eleanor of Castile, England, Historiography, Potestas, Queenship.
The aim of this article is to analyse from a historiographic point of view the potestas of Eleanor of Castile (1241-1290), Queen of England. It studies her activity before she became queen and the extent to which it influenced her subsequent exercise of power. This power is analysed by evaluating the different mechanisms that were used by the queen: mediation and intercession, marriage policy, her influence in the court, her cultural activity, her intervention in the internal and international policy… The political biography of this consort still shows many gaps and questions, something that opens a wide range of possibilities that we believe should be highlighted.
An approach to the textual transmission of Martí de Troppau's Chronicon pontificum et imperatorum in the anonymous Crònica universal de 1427
Jacob MOMPÓ NAVARRO
Original title: Aproximació a la transmissió textual del Chronicon pontificum et imperatorum, de Martí de Troppau, en l’anònim Crònica universal de 1427
Published in
Keywords: Chronicles, Historiography, Textual Transmission, Universal History.
The Chronicon Pontificum et Imperatorum by Martí de Troppau is, along with the Història Escolàstica by Pere Comestor and the Speculum historiale by Vicenç de Beauvais, one of the main sources used by the compiler of the Crònica universal de 1427. The Chronicon will be referred to three different times by the author himself and will thus give rise to three different families in the textual transmission of Martí de Troppau's work, which L. Weiland identifies with letters A, B and C. In this work we provide some evidence that allows us to assume that the version of the Chronicon from which the author of the Crònica de 1427 compiled came, ultimately, from a thirteenth-century manuscript that depended on the A family, but with enough particularity to start a new subfamily, the A*.
An approach to urban space in the work of a poet: Marc Granell and València
Mireia FERRANDO SIMON
Original title: Aproximació a l’espai urbà en l’obra d’un poeta: Marc Granell i València
Published in
Keywords: Catalan poetry, Marc Granell, Urban spaces, València.
Marc Granell (València, 1953) is one of the most relevant Catalan poets of the last third of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st century. He has described himself as a “urbanita”, because he has practically never lived outside his native València. The aim of this paper is to analyze how urban spaces are conceived in his poetry and to explore his vision about València, the city that has accompanied him throughout his 40 years of literary career.
An internal analysis of Heidegger’s ontological dasein: the external criticism of Edith Stein
Giannina BURLANDO
Original title: Un analisis interno del dasein ontológico de Heidegger: críticas externas de Edith Stein
Published in Art, Criticism and Mysticism
Keywords: Edith Stein, Heidegger, Impracticability, Ontological Dasein.
Accordingly with Walter Biemel, when he asserts that “We can either view this thinking [Heidegger’s philosophy] from outside and seek to analize and critize it or we can endeavor to understand it from within”, my own aim in this paper, nontheless, shall not choose any of these exclusive approaches, but rather attempts to do both. Thus, I would like to enter into Heidegger’s philosophy to undertand and appretiate the positive dimention, perhaps hidden, of his view about the Dasein, to show in turn that the wishful ascent of Dasein in his path to being, as Heidegger proposed suffers from a lack of practicality. In other words, we shall emphasize first the novelty of Heidegger’s research on the self: as an ontological self par excellence, and secondly, we shall review insufficient or impractical aspects of his view, which follow from Edith Stein’s critique.
