The choir stalls of the St. Nicholas´ parish of Úbeda
Pablo Jesús LORITE CRUZ
Original title: La sillería del coro de la parroquia de San Nicolás de Bari de Úbeda
Published in
Keywords: Baroque, Choir stalls, Ghotic, Renaissance, St. Nicholas of Bari parish, Úbeda.
This little article talks about St. Nicholas of Bari medieval parish in the Úbeda town (South of Spain) and her choir stalls. We explain a photography that Georg Weise made before 1936.
The compliment to the night in Vladimir Jankélévitch (1903-1985)
Clovis Salgado Gontijo OLIVEIRA
Original title: O elogio à noite em Vladimir Jankélévitch (1903-1985)
Published in Art, Criticism and Mysticism
Keywords: French contemporary philosophy, Mystical theology, Nocturnal experience, Symbology of light and darkness.
Vladimir Jankélévitch concedes to the image and experience of nighttime a proeminent place, both in his ontological and musicological reflections. Contradicting what is usually observed in Western philosophical tradition, the French contemporary philosopher elaborates, in different moments of his work, a kind of “compliment to the the night”, worthy of study. Therefore, the current article intends to point out the main factors which contribute to the extreme positivity of the nocturnal motive in Jankélévitch’s thought. Through this analysis it will be possible to recognize some of the fundamental influences which, in some cases reinterpreted, compose the original perspective of the philosopher. Among them, stand out the Romantic and Impressionist musical poetics, the philosophy of Henri Bergson, and a whole mystical and apophatical tradition, in which certain nocturnal image is equally valued.
The coronation of norwegian kings in Trondheim: the case of Magnús Erlingsson (1156-1184)
Edmar Checon de FREITAS and Renan Marques BIRRO
Original title: A coroação dos reis noruegueses em Trondheim (séc. XII): o caso de Magnús Erlingsson (1156-1184)
Published in Relations between History and Literature in Ancient and Medieval World
Keywords: Kingship, Legitimation, Norway, Royal religion, XII century.
This work analyses the coronation’s process of Norwegian kings in the second half of XII century, with special attention to the ceremony for ascension of Magnús Erlingsson (11561184) to the norwegian throne. From the contraposition of many sources of XI-XIII centuries and with the support of royal religion concept of Jacques Le Goff, the present work delineated the transformation of a boy in a king, especially from a detailed analysis of Privilegiebrev (Letter of Privileges, c. 1163-1164), source that explores the potential of christian religion to legitimate a monarch and a dynasty under the Norwegian civil wars of the XII century.
The correspondence between the jurats of Valencia and St. Vincent Ferrer during the Aragon’s interregnum (1410-1412)
Guillem CHISMOL
Original title: La relació epistolar dels jurats de València amb Sant Vicent Ferrer al voltant de l’Interregne (1410-1412)
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Keywords: Interregnum, Jurats of Valencia, Medieval communication, Medieval letters, Vicent Ferrer.
The investigation investigates epistolary relationships between two of the most important Valencian actors of the Caspe Commitment era, the juries of Valencia and Vicente Ferrer. It is also a study on medieval semi-public communication since one of the actors in the communication, the issuer is a public institution and the other, the receiver, is a particular physical person. However, the present work does not stop at mere communication and aims to show the political role played by the juries and the saint throughout the Interregnum and how their relationship changes depending on their political position on who they defend as the legitimate king of the Crown of Aragon.
The death as passing: Earth, Paradise, and Hell in Armer Heinrich by Hartmann von Aue
Daniele Gallindo Gonçalves SILVA
Original title: A morte como passagem: Terra, Paraíso e Inferno em Armer Heinrich (Pobre Henrique) de Hartmann von Aue
Published in Paradise, Purgatory and Hell: the Religiosity in the Middle Ages
Keywords: Death, Literature in Middle High German, Rites of Passage.
There are several discourses about death in the XII century. In addition to the discourses disseminated by the clergy and religious literature, the Middle High German literature also covered the theme in its own manner. Accordingly, the work Armer Heinrich by Hartmann von Aue re-elaborates the knowledge about death and the transience of life, which are presented and discussed here.
The degrees of knowledge to the mystical vision in the thought of Nicholas of Cusa (1401-1464)
José GONZÁLES RÍOS
Original title: Los grados de conocimiento hacia la visión mística en el pensamiento de Nicolás de Cusa (1401-1464)
Published in Mystic and Millenarianism in Middle Ages
Keywords: Knowledge, Metaphysics, Mystical vision, Neoplatonism, Nicholas of Cusa.
The speculation on the topic of vision (visio), and in it around the mystical vision (visio mystica), is rich in the system of thought of Nicholas of Cusa. It is permanently present in his sermons, letters and in the rest of his theological and philosophical work. While there are various ways to address it, we propose considering it from his metaphysics of the human mind (mens human) point of view, and in it through the consideration of the degree of knowledge what the mind gradually transit in the conjectural searching of vision of the first principle from which she and all proceeds. To this end, we will address the topic of the mystical vision by considering first, the elements that Cusano gives in the context of his early sermons (before 1440). Second, through the presentation of the degrees of knowledge of the human mind, as they appear in the first great metaphysical systematization of knowledge in the books of De coniecturis (1442/3).Third, we discuss the topic in his work De visione Dei (1453). Analyzing this elements we hope to show that the topic of the mystical vision in the thought of Nicholas of Cusa is inseparable from his metaphysics of the human mind.
The delights prohibited at the woman’s monastery
Francisco José CONEJERO PASCUAL
Original title: Els delits prohibits als cenobis femenins
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Keywords: Feminine monastery, Literary cultural practice, Misdemeanour, Modern Age, Moral.
The present investigation pretends to do visible the importance of the monastery feminine, at the ken of the life and the culture of the women of the 16th century. This period met how the Modern Age has not enjoyed for part of the Catalan literary canon a positive consideration, since the term Decadence has comported a pejorative vision of the praxiliterary realized by the women. At this sense, the delights of the women that inhabited these cloisters evidence us that it is necessary to delete commonplaces of the life monastery feminine that are very moved away of the reality. Among the most excelled delights of these excels the reading and the sex that manifested an optics of the different reality of what pretended to impose the ecclesiastical patriarchy.
The discussion on the origin of evil in Pseudo-Dionysius Areopagite’s De divini nominibus and its dependence on Proclus’ De malorum subsistentia
Matteo RASCHIETTI
Original title: A discussão sobre a origem do mal no De divini nominibus do Pseudo-Dionísio Areopagita e sua dependência do De malorum subsistentia de Proclo
Published in Games from Antiquity to Baroque
Keywords: Neoplatonism, Origin of Evil, Parhypostasis, Proclus, Pseudo-Dionysius Areopagite.
There are strong similarities between chapter IV of Pseudo-Dionysius Areopagita’s De divini nominibus and Proclus’ De malorum subsistentia, as pointed out by the research of Hugo Koch and Joseph Stiglmayr at the end of the 19th century, revealing a dependence of the former on the latter. The purpose of this article is to analyze this relationship of dependence and its consequences in the history of the interpretation of pseudodionysian works.
The divine ordering of Will and Power in the Book of Contemplation in God by Ramon Llull (1232-1316)
Gabriel Tebaldi MEIRA; Ricardo da COSTA
Original title: O ordenamento divino da Vontade e do Poder no Livro da Contemplação em Deus de Ramon Llull (1232-1316)
Published in Mirabilia Journal 34
Keywords: Book of Contemplation on God, Divine Ordering, Medieval Philosophy, Power, Ramon Llull, Will.
The objective of the work is to analyse the concepts of Will and Power according to Ramon Llull (1232-1316) in the Book of Contemplation in God, Chapter 47, in its XI Distinction, as well as to understand the author’s proposal for practical application of such principles in the Christian life.
The end of Ancient World: a historical debate
Gilvan Ventura da Silva
Original title: O fim do mundo antigo: uma discussão historiográfica
Published in Mirabilia 1
Keywords: Ancient World, Disintegration, Historiography..
With this article, we intend to discuss how some writers since 18th century treated the “decline” of the Roman Empire connected with their historical views. Therefore, we analyze the emergence of a new conception of time, the refutation of progress and decadence as useful historical concepts and the dissolution of the positivist paradigm trying to show how the theme of the passage from Antiquity to Medieval Age acquired a new meaning according to these deep and important theoretical changes.
