The victorious life and the disenchanted end of the great Macedonian conqueror Alexander the Great and the novelesque knight Tirant lo Blanc
Anastasia TERZOPOULOU
Original title: La vida victoriosa y el final desencantado del gran conquistador macedonio Alejandro Magno y del caballero novelesco Tirant lo Blanc
Published in
Keywords: Ambition, Conquests, Death, Feats, Fortune, Testament.
The aim of this article is not to analyze the details of the life of Tirant lo Blanc, a literary figure from the Valencian Golden Age, and Alexander the Great, King of Macedonia, a real historical person of Ancient Greece; but to expose the common features that life presents and, above all, the early, bitter, and unexpected end of two great warriors and military strategists.
The war as a metaphor in the religious art in Middle Ages
María Laura Montemurro
Original title: La guerra como metáfora en el arte religioso de la Edad Media
Published in The chivalry and the art of war in the Ancient and Medieval World
Keywords: Christianity, Medieval Art, Military Iconography.
The war in Epitoma rei militaris by Flavius Vegetius: between christian faith and barbarian pressure
Raphael Leite Teixeira
Original title: A guerra no Epitoma rei militaris de Flávio Vegécio (séc. IV d.C.): entre a fé cristã e a pressão bárbara
Published in The chivalry and the art of war in the Ancient and Medieval World
Keywords: Basileia, Late roman army, Military history, Vegetius.
The war in Waltharius
Gabriela Monti
Original title: La guerra en el Waltharius (vv. 644-1061)
Published in The chivalry and the art of war in the Ancient and Medieval World
Keywords: Enemies, Waltharius, hero.
The war in the Crónica del Rey Don Pedro by the Chancellor López de Ayala
Cecilia Devia
Original title: La guerra en la Crónica del Rey Don Pedro del Canciller López de Ayala
Published in The chivalry and the art of war in the Ancient and Medieval World
Keywords: Chronicles, Middle Ages, War.
The written sources of the Byzantine tradition on the Dormition and the Assumption of the Virgin
Spyros P. PANAGOPOULOS
Original title: Les sources littéraires de la tradition byzantine sur la Dormition et l’Assomption de la Vierge
Published in Rhythms, expressions and representations of the body
Keywords: Assomption, Byzance, Dormition, Sources littéraires, Vierge Marie.
Cet article traite de la littérature grécophone à l’époque byzantine, à propos de la Dormition de la Vierge. La littérature sur la Dormition, si elle a fait l’objet d’études par de nombreux chercheurs jusqu’à présent, néanmoins une brève revue de ces textes a été jugée nécessaire, puisqu’ils sont les principales sources d’inspiration pour l’iconographie du spectacle. Pour une meilleure présentation, ces textes sont classés en apocryphes, hagiographiques, homilétiques-patristiques. De plus, au début de l’article, un examen des rapports sur la fin terrestre de Théotokos avant la création du corps de la littérature concernée est suggéré.
The ğihād and his substitute, the ribāṭ, in the traditional Islam: Evolution from a militaristic and collective spirit towards an inner and individual spirituality
Francisco FRANCO-SÁNCHEZ
Original title: El ğihād y su sustituto el ribāṭ en el Islam tradicional: Evolución desde un espíritu militarista y colectivo hacia una espiritualidad interior e individual
Published in The Middle Ages and the Crusades
Keywords: Holy-War, Islam, Ribāṭ, Spirituality, Ğihād.
At the beginning Ğihād was in Islam a militaristic spirit that articulates a defence of the religion, or what is the same, of the Muslim State, by means of arms. When in the first century of the Hegira it becomes impossible to continue the expansion of the Islamic State, the Ribāṭ was articulated as a substitute for Ğihād. It involved the internalization of the same spirituality, now understood not as a collective and official precept, but as individual command and internal fight. We revise the data from Arab sources about the Ribāṭ and its performance in the building known as rābiṭa. The function of these buildings, historiography, juridical frame, religious life and the economy related to the rābiṭa-s are explained. Toponymic traces and material vestiges of the rābiṭa-s at the eastern coast of the Iberian Peninsula, especially those found in Guardamar del Segura are explained as well.
The Λόγος Τέλειος in Lactantius’ De Vita Beata: Philological Analysis of the Hermetic Fragmentum of the Divinæ Institutiones 7.18.4-5
David Pessoa de LIRA
Original title: O Λόγος Τέλειος em De Vita Beata de Lactâncio: análise filológica do Fragmentum Hermético das Divinæ Institutiones 7. 18. 4-5
Published in Mirabilia Journal 34
Keywords: Asclepius Latinus, Fragmentum Hermeticum, Hermetic Literature, Lactantius, Philology, Λόγος Τέλειος.
This article analyzes the fragmentum of the Λόγος Τέλειος in Lactantius's De Vita Beata, Divinæ Institutiones 7. 18. 4-5. Of particular interest here is the idea and argument of the Hermetic fragmentum Λόγος Τέλειος in contrast to the idea in its context in De Vita Beata. Although there has been significant research on the small apocalypse or prediction of Asclepius Latinus 26a, this article focuses on understanding the aspects that characterize the Λόγος Τέλειος without dwelling beforehand on the idea of prediction and the future, nor on the subsequent interpretations developed for future events in the Latin translation of the Asclepius Latinus. The Coptic ⲗⲟⲅⲟⲥ ⲧⲉⲗⲉⲓⲟⲥ [Logos Teleios] (Nag Hammadi VI.8 (73,23-36)) corroborates various aspects of Λόγος Τέλειος. The first text helps to understand the second one reciprocally. Therefore, the comparative method is used here to demonstrate the similarities and differences between the Greek Λόγος Τέλειος, the Coptic ⲗⲟⲅⲟⲥ ⲧⲉⲗⲉⲓⲟⲥ, the Asclepius Latinus 26a and the intervention in these texts in sources of fragmentum transmission. The comparative analysis shows some relevant results in the relationship between the Λόγος Τέλειος en De Vita Beata de Lactantius. As result, one could perceive that the Λόγος Τέλειος is a text that deals with periodic cataclysm and timelessness and its demonstradum is different from Lactantius’ conception.
The “pedagogical perspective” of Dante Aliguieri to access the true nobility and the earthly bliss
Moisés Romanazzi Tôrres
Original title: A perspectiva “pedagógica” de Dante Aliguieri no acesso à verdadeira nobreza e à beatitude terrestre
Published in The educacion and secular culture in the Middle Ages
Keywords: Emperor, Governor-philosophers, True nobility.
Dante, in the pages of Convivio, develops his ethics, establishing the model of the ideal life, perfect and nobly. This point of view is aristocratic because the spirit culture is reserved for special peoples of nobility. Here, the central element is the aristoteleanism. Dante imagines a group of governorphilosophers that received, exactly as a reward by your philosophical effort, the gift of the true nobility. They are assigned of guiding, in your feuds, kingdoms, cities, the human crowds to the happiness and terrestrial perfection. In the third book of the De Monarchia, Dante, closing this “pedagogic” perspective, characterizes the emperor definitively as the Great Philosopher of the Christianity and, like this, the Master, the ultimately guide of the men to the mystic splendor of the true nobility and of the blessedness philosophical or terrestrial.
Time and Eternity in Saint Augustine
Marcos Roberto Nunes COSTA
Original title: Tempo e Eternidade em Santo Agostinho
Published in The Time and the Eternity in the Ancient and Medieval World
Keywords: Eternity, Manichaeism, Neoplatonism, Saint Augustine, Time.
Every Augustinian disputation regarding to time - eternity relation arises from the need of combating the Manicheans and, by indirection, all those ones that affirmed, asserted world eternity, that denied ex nihilo Jewish - Christian Creation principle. Saint Augustine, departing from Genesis Scriptural Book in order to present a revelational founding and neoplatonic philosophy, in order to impart philosophic maintenance to the above - mentioned thesis, has ended up by moving away from not only Manichaeism, but from Neo-Platonism itself which has worked as philosophical foundation for contesting those ones.
