Superstition and Religiousness in the Res publica: Areas of Power?
Luís Filipe Silvério Lima
Original title: Superstições e Religiosidade na Res Publica: Espaços de Poder?
Published in Expressing the Divine: Language, Art and Mysticism
Keywords: Livy., Prophecy, Religion, power.
This paper deals with the links between religion and prophecy as forms of power in Livy.
Teacher Merit in Medical Education
Hélio ANGOTTI NETO
Original title: Mérito Docente em Educação Médica
Published in
Keywords: Medical Education, Professional Progression, Teacher Merit.
The recognition of teacher merit is an important tool for improving the quality of medical education, provided that it is executed according to an appropriate award plan, explicit and consistent with the institutional values and vision. This paper discusses ways of recognizing the academic merit, the different types of awards and their evidences.
Ten little things that magnify the Catalan Griselda
Júlia BUTINYÀ
Original title: Deu petiteses que magnifiquen la Griselda catalana
Published in
Keywords: Bernat Metge, Francesco Petrarca, Giovanni Boccaccio, Griselda, Humanism.
Ten little things that magnify the Catalan Griselda: The stories of Griselda by the Italian authors, Boccaccio and Petrarca, bear witness to a profound discussion, as revealed by the epistolary of the Seniles. Bernat Metge, sensitive to the new current, enters into this controversy with his Catalan version and through some letters. His support for Boccaccio and the disjunction towards the mentor, which were already known, we analyze here from ten corners of observation, which explain the sign of the Humanisme in its origins, and can still give reason for its course.
Textual transmission in Latin and romance language of the sermons of Sant Vicent Ferrer
Manuel ORTUÑO ARREGUI
Original title: La transmisión textual en lengua latina y romance de los sermones de Sant Vicent Ferrer
Published in
Keywords: Latin, Romance, Sermons, St. Vincent Ferrer.
The aim of the present article is to explain the textual transmission in Latin and romance language of the sermons preached by S. Vicent Ferrer. His sermons were scored by listeners who were transcribing them and are notable texts in Valencian, Catalan and Castilian medieval literature. In fact, the oldest Vincentian sermons that have come down to us are in latin – which is not to say that he might preach in that language but for its wider dissemination and usefulness were collected in it–, while it is accurate that in some few occasions have some words in other languages, probably introduced by the same reportatores.
The "cinocephalus" and the "úlfheðnar": the representation of the wolf-warrior in the Historia Langobardorum (VIII century) and in the Egils saga (c. 1230)
Renan Marques Birro and Jardel Modenesi Fiorio
Original title: Os Cynocephalus e os Úlfheðnar: a representação do guerreiro canídeo na Historia Langobardorum (séc. VIII) e na Egils saga (c. 1230)
Published in The chivalry and the art of war in the Ancient and Medieval World
Keywords: Icelanders, Lombards, Middle Ages, Myths, War.
The Aristotelian Ethics
Gustavo Ellwanger CALOVI1 and Gustavo Luis MARMENTINI
Original title: A Ética Aristotélica
Published in The Time and the Eternity in the Ancient and Medieval World
Keywords: Ethics, Happiness, Justice, Middle ground, Virtue.
The goal of this article is to demonstrate that the study of Aristotelian ethics is fundamental for the reflection of western ethics. The Aristotelian ethics is reasoned on judgment, founded on the moral judgments of good and virtuous man. In this sense his ethics is articulate from a central question: What is the supreme good of the man and, what’s the end’s direction of everything? With this, it becomes clean that the supreme good of the man is happiness, that every man should find it in all of his actions, being the happiness an activity of his soul like the reason and the virtue. To achieve the complete happiness inside the society, the justice between the individuals must be present. And so there will not be inequalities and the middle ground will be present between the parts, including what concerns the relationships.
The Art of Middle Ages as a Builder Visual Concept of Evil
Márcia Schmitt Veronezi CAPPELLARI
Original title: A Arte da Idade Média como construtora de um conceito visual de mal
Published in Paradise, Purgatory and Hell: the Religiosity in the Middle Ages
Keywords: Evil, History, Imaginary, Middle Ages, image.
The figure of the Devil had an important role during the Middle Ages served as the main reference for the publicity of the Catholic Church. The terrible torture of men would be subjected to hell and the delights of paradise populated speeches and led the imaginary of the period. The grotesque and nightmarish image was intended to scare people to obey the moral laws and to turn away from sin.
The Bellvm Africvm and the construction of the image of Julius Caesar Imperator
Michele Eduarda Brasil de Sá
Original title: O Bellvm Africvm e a construção da imagem do Imperator Júlio César
Published in The chivalry and the art of war in the Ancient and Medieval World
Keywords: Bellum Africum, Julius Caesar, imperator.
The Cançon de la Crosada (13th century) by William of Tudela. An English Translation (II-LXV)
Antonio CORTIJO OCAÑA
Original title: La Cançon de la Crosada (s. XIII) de Guillermo de Tudela. Traducción al inglés (II-LXV)
Published in Music in Antiquity, Middle Ages & Renaissance
Keywords: History of the Albigensian Crusade, Inquisition, Persecution.
The History of the Albigensian Crusade is one of the most intriguing medieval Provençal texts. It represents the beginning of a persecuting society. We provide a translation.
The Christ and the History: a dialectical perspective of the Christological quarrels
José Pedro LUCHI, Helio Pedro Pretti PERIM
Original title: O Cristo e a História: uma perspectiva dialética das querelas cristológicas
Published in Art, Criticism and Mysticism
Keywords: Christology, Councils, Dialectic, Incarnation, Katabasis.
This research atempts to trace the progress of the historical and theological comprehension of the Person of Christ by exposing the positions risen before Nicea, as well as those developed during the first four ecumenic councils, in order to investigate the competence of the formulae throughout achieved. Two major works will be of aid to this quest, namely The Ecumenical Councils, by the historian Hubert Jedin, and The Incarnation of Christ, by the philosopher and theologian Hans Küng, which assumes the dinamics of the Hegelian dialect all along his work. The concepts of katabasis and anabasis, both borrowed from the mythological analysis tradition, will be summoned to the actual research and resignified by their new usage in the Judaeo-Christian theodissey. Concepts whose meanings are broadly urdestood in the Christian context like kenosis, incarnation and humanization will also be utilized. The research will climax in the Council of Chalcedon, the one in which the ultimate definition of Christ’s nature was arranged. It’s formula is crucial to understand the relationship between Jesus, God and man in the subsequent medieval thought.
