Religious conflict in the fifth century through two parallel views – The sack of Rome in 410 AD in two literary works: De Reditu suo of Rutilio Namaziano and The City of God, of St. Augustine
Lilian Regina Gonçalves DINIZ
Original title: O conflito religioso no século V por meio de duas visões paralelas – O saque de Roma, de 410 d.C., em duas obras literárias: De Reditu suo, de Rutilio Namaziano, e A Cidade de Deus, de Santo Agostinho
Published in Relations between History and Literature in Ancient and Medieval World
Keywords: Christianity, Late Antiquity, Paganism, Sack of Rome, Theological conflict..
This article wants to analyze the event known as The Sack of Rome, occurred on 410 DC, using two contemporary works: De Reditu Suo, of the pagan poet Rutilio Namaziano and The City of God, written by the bishop Agostine from Hipona. The choice of these authors aimed to draw a religious parallel that illustrates the theological conflict that existed in that time. It will be initially presented the historical context preceding the period in question, known as Late Antiquity. Will be presented the political, social, economic and military questions, in order to understand the religious and social conflict caused by the rise of Christianity and the consequent decline of paganism. Is important to remember that this article is not intended to be a theological or literary thesis about the works that we are studying here. It is only a superficial historical view of an extremely wide and rich period, too complex to be treated in a few pages.
René Favaloro, the Idealist
José Guilherme Pinheiro PIRES, Pedro Henrique Martins de OLIVEIRA, Rafael Vinícius Lôndero Quintino dos SANTOS
Original title: O Idealista, René Favaloro
Published in
Keywords: Bypass, Favaloro, Saphenous Vein Bypass.
René Favaloro was born in the city of La Plata, capital of the province of Buenos Aires on July 14, 1923. Born in a humble crib, he was able to enter and be graduated as medical doctor by the National University of La Plata in 1949. He became a doctor rural community by brilliantly practicing medicine with humanism in the small town of Jacinto Aráuz, before moving to the United States, where he revolutionized cardiac surgery. He dedicated his life to medicine and to disseminate humanism within it, for which he founded the Favaloro Foundation. Unable to withstand the corruption and tragic situation in which his beloved country was, he committed suicide on July 29, 2000.
Representations and symbols from East to West: rebirth of Phoenix
Maria Leonor García da CRUZ
Original title: Representações e símbolos de Oriente a Ocidente: o renascimento da Fênix
Published in The Medieval Aesthetics
Keywords: Eternity, Myth, Phoenix, Rebirth, Symbology.
Passing over vast times and spaces, the symbology of the Phoenix is found in legends from China, India and Persia, varying in details, constructing a myth that the West inherited from Egypt and which it helps to consolidate in classical, mediaeval and modern times with projections even in our modern times. Is the only thing the European Phoenix has in common with the Chinese Phoenix, i.e. Feng-Huang the mythical creation related to inheritances of mankind and a collective unconscious, deposit of images and symbols (Jung)? A comparison of details jointly emphasises its spiritual energy, from rare beauty to divine virtue, from sanctification and purity to eternal love, to prosperity and good governance, from singularity and excellence to rebirth and eternity.
Riding in the plains of southern Iberian Peninsula, in the "brida" and "jineta" ways – saddles, harnesses and the protection of the Christian and Muslim rider
Franklin Pereira
Original title: A monta "à brida" e "à jineta" nas planícies da Península Ibérica – selas, arreios e protecção do cavaleiro cristão e muçulmano
Published in The chivalry and the art of war in the Ancient and Medieval World
Keywords: Islam, Leather shields, Saddles, chivalry.
Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar, El Cid (1048-1099), very good knight and from great lineage
Olga PISNITCHENKO
Original title: Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar, El Cid (1048-1099), muy buen cauallero e de grande linaje
Published in Society and Culture in Portugal
Keywords: Castile, El Cid, Estoria de España, Leon, chivalry.
This article proposes to analyze the image of Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar constructed by Estoria de España of Alfonso X and as chronicles derived from it. Our research is concentrated not so much on the study of political and military abilities of El Cid, but mainly on the knightly model that is elaborated from its image by the chroniclers that represent a voice of the king in the analyzed historical works. According to the chronicles, Rodrigo acts as a vassal of the three kings (Fernando, Sancho and Alfonso) who succeed each other on the throne of Castile and Leon, constructing with each one of them peculiar relations that introduce to the reader or listener of history a wide spectrum of situations in which Rodrigo continues to remain within the line of behavior of an exemplary vassal.
Sacred and profane in Medieval: superposition or symbiosis? – The case of dedicated medieval religious institutions to non-religious purposes
Armando Alexandre dos SANTOS
Original title: Sagrado e profano no Medievo: superposição ou simbiose? – O caso das instituições religiosas medievais dedicadas a finalidades não religiosas
Published in Music in Antiquity, Middle Ages & Renaissance
Keywords: Building bridges, Middle Ages, Military life, Religious orders, Rules of Religious Orders.
This article considers the interpenetration of the sacred and profane spheres in the Middle Ages, studying the case of some religious orders destined for temporal and profane purposes, such as the construction of bridges; it focuses, in a special way, on the theological foundation of these orders and the constitutive importance of the rules or statutes for their regular and official existence.
Saint Augustine: Faith, Hope and Charity
Emerson DETONI
Original title: Santo Agostinho: Fé, Esperança e Caridade
Published in The Time and the Eternity in the Ancient and Medieval World
Keywords: Faith, God, Saint Augustine, Virtue.
Before the God’s revelation, that proposes his salvation project, the human being is invited to answer through faith, hope and charity. Believing, waiting and loving the man place himself into the dynamic of the existence towards to God. More than a set of contents, it is a life path, a disposition, a capability and availability of complying every day “acts of faith”, to place oneself in the God’s Hands with full confidence, hoping from Him the fullness of property and the eternal life. Saint Augustine has deepened the interiority of the faith decision, his connection with the hope and the charity. Everything with a strong suffering towards Christ.
Saint Vincent Ferrer in Valencian popular imaginary: a ethnopoetics approach to narrative cycle of Vincentians miracles
Joan BORJA I SANZ
Original title: Sant Vicent Ferrer en l’imaginari popular valencià: una aproximació etnopoètica al cicle narratiu dels miracles vicentins
Published in Nicholas of Cusa in Dialogue
Keywords: Ethnohistory, Ethnopoetics, Land of Valencia, Miracles, Vincent Ferrer.
This paper focusses on the productive narrative cycle by St. Vincent Ferrer in Valencian cultural context, from a repertoire of over forty stories. The analysis allows to state and explain a curious phenomenon. That is: regardless of the real and historical biography, legends about St. Vincent Ferrer respond to idiosyncratic grammar of fantasy, and they are like a mirror which is projected and reflected the ethnohistorical personality of the Valencian people.
Semantic neologisms in the DOLEV-Natura
Joan de Déu MARTINES LLINARES
Original title: Les novetats semàntiques en el DOLEV-Natura
Published in
Keywords: Corpus, Diccionaris, Lexicografia, Lingüística del corpus, Semàntica d’Enric Valor.
This article shows the semantic neologisms hitherto not compiled in reference dictionaries (DIEC2, DDLC, DNV and DCVB) which have been found in the dictionary of the nature of the literary work by Enric Valor (DOLEV-Nature). This has been achieved with the help of the tools of the Corpus Informatitzat Multilingüe de Textos Antics i Contemporanis (CIMTAC) by ISIC-IVITRA. These tools allowed us to compile the corpus of the literary work by Enric Valor (COLEV).
Sentences and obligations of Valencian painters (1390-1450)
Francesc GRANELL SALES
Original title: Condemnes i obligacions dels pintors de València (1390-1450)
Published in
Keywords: Kingdom of Valencia, Medieval Justice, Medieval Painting, Social History.
This paper shows a first approach to the social history of painters of València by means of a particular source: the Justícia de 300 sous records and specially those included in the books Condempnacions i Obligacions.
