Deciphering Lo somni and its literary techniques
Julia BUTIÑÁ
Original title: Descifrando Lo somni y sus técnicas literarias
Published in Mirabilia Journal 34
Keywords: Italian Trecento authors, Lo somni, Ramon Llull, Rhetoric, Troubadour Poetry.
The message that, in Lo somni, the spirit of the king secretly entrusts to the author –the great humanist Bernat Metge– commissioning him to spread it in the future, given its dangerous nature, is encrypted through literary sources. After following –especially those of Boccaccio– in the four books, by means of tables published in 2002, his links between the different books are represented in a diagram. This allows verifying that said layout is not only harmonic and makes the logic of said sources explicit, but also seems to reveal techniques typical of verse –coming from the troubadour heritage– and of prose –the framework used by the Italian Trecento authors–, which would contribute to artistically encrypt the message. This consists of rejecting the misogynistic doctrine of the Petrarchian Secretum, which has contaminated Boccaccio, and adhering to Llull, who has the most intricate artifice of concealment. The investigation is completed by a contrast with the Apologia, which confirms these results.
Desecration and purgation of the chantre of the cathedral of Orihuela Domingo Bou y Miralles
Emilio CALLADO ESTELA
Original title: Descarrío y purgación del chantre de la catedral de Orihuela Domingo Bou y Miralles
Published in
Keywords: 17th century, Church, Crimes, Orihuela, Reformation.
This article analyzes the case of the cantor of the cathedral of Orihuela, Domingo Bou y Miralles, whose love affairs with a young widow would earn him exile between 1691 and 1692, at the request of the local bishop Antonino Sánchez de Castellar and by order of the crown. A little more than half a year of purgation at court was enough for the pre-blessed, it seems, to stop join astray and return to the fold, since then giving himself up to the ecclesiastical office that was his own.
Dialogue inter-religious ‘real or apparent’ during the Hispanic Middle Ages: Ramon Llull (1232-1316)
Jordi Pardo Pastor
Original title: Diálogo inter-religioso ‘real ou aparente’ durante a Idade Média hispânica: Ramon Llull (1232-1316)
Published in Ramon Llull (1232-1316): the cooperation among different cultures and the inter-religious dialogue
Keywords: Llibre del gentil e dels tres savis, Ramon Llull, diàleg interreligiós.
This paper speaks about the dialogue between religions in the Middle Age. We’re taking historical methods and The Book of the Pagan and the three Wises of Ramon Llull for introducing the status quaestionis.
Doctrinal elaboration of a popular devotion. Biblical presence in Los Milagros de Guadalupe (Spain, fifteenth century)
Gerardo Fabián Rodríguez
Original title: Elaboración doctrinal de una devoción popular. Presencia bíblica en Los Milagros de Guadalupe (España, siglo XV)
Published in Mirabilia 3 (2003)
Keywords: History of Spain, Miracle, Virgin of Guadaloupe.
In this text, I suggest a selection and study of "miraglos" contained in the firsts four códices of Los Milagros de Guadalupe from the assumptions of the sociolingüistics and devotional sociology. This kind of approach will let me analyze the Christian symbology underlying these texts and give a posible history about the representations of the Church around the Guadaloupian devotion, as the Jeronimian monks project, when writing down every and each miracle, doctrinal arguments considered as esential in the Christian discourse of the time. In this particular case, the narrative plot of the miracula transmits a real doctrinal wisdom, appealing to biblical texts, stories and basis, specially from the New Testament. This appealing to the Bible is not explicit but, on the contrary, quotations and relations implicited in the narratives have to be discovered. From this cut of the Guadaloupian corpus, I will tackle the following topics: the importance of the baptism as a sacrament, the revelation understood as a divine grace, the image of Mary as Mother of God, the different signs of the imitatio Christi, particularly The Passion and the lion’s symbology.
Dominus dat sapientiam. Erasmism and wisdom as backbone elements of the action and the image of Charles V
Carlos Jesús SOSA RUBIO
Original title: Dominus dat sapientiam. Erasmismo y sabiduría como elementos vertebradores de la acción y de la imagen de Carlos V
Published in Mirabilia Journal 34
Keywords: Erasmus of Rotterdam, King David, King Solomon, Philip II, Strength, Wisdom.
Wisdom acted as a backbone in the image of Charles V, especially during his first years of government, and in this matter Erasmus of Rotterdam had a relevant role. Starting from this premise, it is convenient to analyze the origin of that decision and, above all, the consequences it had for the shaping of his effigy, whose unquestionable evolution in the 30s and 40s of the century did not necessarily mean a total break with the ideological substratum of that previous period. This paper analyzes Charles V’s wisdom sources, with Erasmus as the main point of reference, as well as its effects and manifestations, to subsequently study the relationship that through this “gift from heaven”, and the other great biblical virtue, which is strength, Charles V and Philip II establish with David and with Solomon. Legitimacy, Davidic Covenant and messianism are other issues addressed that are closely related to the propagandistic use of these two great figures of the House of Judah.
Dreamscape in La leyenda del caballero del Cisne: the creation of a lineage and the promotion of chivalrous values in oneiric episodes
Natacha CROCOLL
Original title: El espacio de los sueños en La leyenda del caballero del Cisne: la creación de un linaje y la promoción de los valores caballerescos en los episodios oníricos
Published in Mirabilia Journal 34
Keywords: Chivalrous values, Dreams, La leyenda del caballero del Cisne, Lineage.
In La leyenda del caballero del Cisne, the account of the eponymous hero’s exploits and those of his grandson, Godofredo de Bouillon, is often interrumpted by oneiric and wonderful episodes of different kinds (prophetic dreams, angelic appearances, etc.). Such episodes play a crucial role in the text’s structure, for they announce future scenes and take part in the characters’ portrayal. In this essay, we aim to study this variety of functions through textual analysis; we will focus on the dreams and visions that accompany the story and contribute to the literary creation of a lineage predestined to wear Jerusalem’s crown and participate in the characterization of a new chivalrous figure promoted by the Castilian kings in the 13th and 14th centuries
Duplex Spiritus Almus: the semantics of the “X” in the Romanesque period
Dominique J. PERSOONS
Original title: Duplex Spiritus Almus: la sémantique du “X” à l’époque romane
Published in Music in Antiquity, Middle Ages & Renaissance
Keywords: Double soul, Holy Spirit, Jaca, Ornate letters, Plato.
The illumination from the early thirteenth century English manuscript Harley-MS-4951 shows a curious disposition of the divine trinity. If the Father and the Son are easily identified, the Holy Spirit appears in the form of an X surmounted by two animal heads, one threatening and the other affable. This suggests that the Spirit was considered double and made up of two opposing spirits. This hypothesis is verified by the observation of the tympanum of the cathedral of Jaca.
Edition and Study of the Relationship of the Feast of Saint Thomas (1656), by Josep Aragonés
Elia CALBO BOTELLA
Original title: Edició i Estudi de la Relació de la Festa de Sant Tomàs (1656), de Josep Aragonés
Published in
Keywords: Catalan literature, Memorial, Modern Age, Relation, Valencia.
This article presents the study and regularized spelling edition of Relació de la Festa de Sant Tomàs written by the Valencian notary Josep Aragonés in 1656. This, is our intention to make an approximation to its author and to the text. Finally, we offer the edition of the aforementioned relation, using the criterion of regularized spelling, since the original has not been preserved, but we must start whit an edition made at beginning of the 20th century. Our purpose is to present this edition as one more step in the process of recovering texts in Catalan during the modern age.
Eiximenis, Alfonso IV, Peter I of Portugal and his Vassals
Xavier RENEDO I PUIG
Original title: Eiximenis, Alfonso IV, Pedro I de Portugal y sus vasallos
Published in Emotions in the Ancient and Medieval Mediterranean World
Keywords: Alphonse IV of Portugal, Cardinal virtues, Dotzè del Crestià, Pacts, Peter I of Portugal.
In the vast encyclopedia of Crestià Dotze policy, completed in early part of the year in 1387, the Franciscan Catalan Francesc Eiximenis devoted a chapter to discuss this cardinal virtue, since the principles of the doctrine pacts, during the civil war in the year 1355 between Alfonso IV, king of Portugal, with his son, the Infante, Don Pedro. Led by Eiximenis this episode becomes an example of historical highlights, along with other similar examples, according to the doctrine defended in Dotze Pactista, the role the cardinal virtue of fortitude plays in defense of the common good against the errors and injustices of tyrants.
Elizabeth Siddal, Pre-Raphaelite model and artist
Laura PINTADO MARÍN
Original title: Elizabeth Siddal, modelo y artista prerrafaelita
Published in
Keywords: Artist, Elizabeth Siddal, Models, Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, XIX century.
Elizabeth Siddal is a character that we know today as a model and, especially, as the wife of the well-known Pre-Raphaelite painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti. For years, her work has been undervalued and the studios where she has been mentioned have only highlighted aspects of her private life, mythologizing and romanticizing the tragedies she was forced to go through to find a place in the demanding world of art.
