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A Ver Navios: sea, love, solitude, diaspora and nostalgia in Sephardic songbook (15th century)

Antonio Celso RIBEIRO

Original title: A Ver Navios: mar, amor, solidão, diáspora e nostalgia no cancioneiro sefardita (século XV)

Published in Intercultural Mediterranean

Keywords: Love, Music, Nostalgia, Sea, Sephardic songbook, Solitude.

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The aim of the present work is to analyse the intertextual relationships present in the Sephardic songbook, based on the symbolism of the sea and its implications in Sephardic culture, focusing on the theme of love, loneliness and nostalgia in the diaspora. To this end, some songs that fit into these sections will be analyzed, discussing how they reflected the Jewish soul and the pain of exile.

A bibliometric study of the scientific production of Philoctetes during the period 1961 to 2015. An approximation of the educational values involved

Alejandro LORENZO-LLEDÓ

Original title: Estudio bibliométrico de la producción científica sobre Filoctetes durante el periodo de 1961 a 2015. Aproximación a los valores educativos implicados

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Keywords: Blibliometric analysis, Greek mythology, Philoctetes, Sophocles.

The legend of Philoctetes has some main features, with some variations, that are repeated in the mythological tradition: hero of Greek mythology, who was excluded and abandoned on the island of Lemnos and then returned to the conquest of Troy. This study has focused on the bibliometric analysis of the scientific literature on the figure of Philoctetes during the period 1961-2015.The aim was to describe and characterize the state of the scientific literature on this subject for use in teaching posible educational value of myth. Using eight specific bibliometric indicators, we have formed a final sample that shows 124 documents, identified as articles and obtained in the database Web of Science. According to results, it has been shown, on the one hand, poor and irregular scientific production of 124 articles over 54 years, with a range from two to eight articles in the 10 most productive journals. The majority are from Anglo-Saxon countries and authorship of a single author. On the other hand, it has been found that the most productive topic has been Philoctetes Sophocles tragedy. It has also been approached from other research areas such as education, medicine, psychology, psychiatry, sociology and religion. The findings conclude that it is a little researched topic and, given the diversity of areas that have been treated, it has a multidisciplinary potential to continue in their study and application to education.

A compreensão mística na obra de Jâmblico de Cálcis

Ivan Vieira Neto

Published in The Philosophical Tradition in the Ancient and Medieval World

Keywords: Mysteries, Philosophy, Religion.

A kind of joy: the Wise King games

Braulio VÁZQUEZ CAMPOS

Original title: Manera de alegría: los juegos del Rey Sabio

Published in Games from Antiquity to Baroque

Keywords: Alfonso X the Wise, Astrology, Astronomy, Backgammon, Chess, Dice, Game, Middle Ages, Philosophy, Political thought, Worldview.

The «Book of Games» is one of the most luxurious works to have emerged from the scriptorium in the service of King Alfonso X the Wise, but it is also one of the most content rich. It constitutes the foremost evidence of the board games played in the Castilian court in the 13th century, especially chess, backgammon, and dice. Its pages not only encompass explanations of the mechanics and strategy of these recreational activities, but also display an entire world view through allegories, metaphors, philosophical discussions, and political interpretations. This paper endeavours to dissect each of these aspects.

A summary of the necessary virtues to the applicant in the mystical path: al-‘Awāṣim qawāṭi‘ al-qawāṣim of Ibn Sab‘īn (Ricote, Murcia, 13th. c.)

Carlos BERBIL

Original title: Un resumen de las virtudes necesarias para el aspirante en la vía mística: al-‘Awāṣim qawāṭi‘ al-qawāṣim, de Ibn Sab‘īn (Ricote, Murcia, s. XIII)

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Keywords: 13th century, Al-Andalus, Ibn Sabʿīn, Makkah, Sufism.

This article presents a preliminary study of a brief unpublished work by Ibn Sabʿīn. The author offers a summary of the "saviour practices", which are here related to "citadels" (ʿawāṣim), that can help the disciples in the spiritual path to stay away from misfortunes (qawāṣim).

Abū l-Ḥasan al-Šuštarī, much more than a Sufi poet

Abdelkrim BEN-NAS

Original title: Abū l-Ḥasan al-Šuštarī, mucho más que un poeta sufí

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Keywords: Al-Šuštarī, Grenadian Sufis, Sufi mystical poets, Sufism history, Sufism in al-Andalus.

Al-Šuštarī, inhabitant of Granada, is one of the most influential Sufis along the history of Sufism. He was the first one including the zağal in the Sufi poetry. His stanzas are still being recited in spiritual dances all around the muslin world. His fame as a poet overshadows other aspects of his personality that we consider interesting to be inquired.

Alcibiades’s silens: notes of aesthetics and philosophy in Pico (1463-1494), Erasmus (1467-1436) and Bruno (1542-1600)

Julián BARENSTEIN

Original title: Los silenos de Alcibíades: notas de estética y filosofía en Pico (1463-1494), Erasmo (1467-1436) y Bruno (1542-1600)

Published in The Medieval Aesthetics

Keywords: Aesthetics and Philosophy, Erasmus, Giordano Bruno, Pico della Mirandola, Silens.

Of the multiple influences that Plato’s philosophy has had on Renaissance thought, in this paper we are interested in focusing on a specific and even minimal question, namely, that reference to the silens that appears in Sympsium (215b-c). In our work we propose, then, to trace the presence of the concept of Silenus in three authors: Pico della Mirandola (1463-1494), Erasmus of Rotterdam (1467-1436) and Giordano Bruno (1542-1600). We will stop, in this way, in the famous Epistle that Pico sent to Ermolao Barbaro in 1485 and that is part of the De Genere dicendi philosophorum, in the monumental Adagia of Erasmus, especially in the adage 2201, Sileni Albibiadis, and in the dialogues Spaccio de la bestia trionfante and Cabala del cavallo Pegaseo by Giordano Bruno. The Silens, as is well known, are hollow figurines, horrible looking, disgusting and despicable, inside which are full of gems, exotic jewels and precious. Our research aims to show that, according to the selected authors, this is the philosopher’s own way of seeing himself, his aesthetics –whose most finished and original example is Socrates– and, by extension, the way of being proper to philosophy.

Alexander Neckam (1157-1217): On dice players. Study and translation

Nicolás MARTÍNEZ SÁEZ; Lucía GARCÍA ALMEIDA

Original title: Alejandro Neckam (1157-1217): Sobre los jugadores de dados. Estudio y traducción

Published in Games from Antiquity to Baroque

Keywords: Alexander Neckam, Christianity, De naturis rerum, Dice games, Games of chance.

In the first centuries of Christianity, theologians and philosophers viewed with suspicion and contempt both games in general, because they were considered pagan superstitions, and board games in particular, which, associated with gambling, made any Christian lose his head. Aleae or games of chance, where dice were used, were forbidden, and condemned by numerous councils and moral treatises. In this sense, at the end of the 12th century, the English philosopher Alexander Neckam, as a continuator of an antiludic Christian tradition, included in a chapter of his encyclopedia De naturis rerum a section dedicated to dice players where he explains their negative consequences: robbery, fights, economic ruin, and blasphemy. This paper presents, together with an introductory study, the only translation in Spanish, as far as we know, of chapter 183 of book II of De naturis rerum.

Alfons de Borja i Roderic de Borja According to Alfons the Magnanimous’s Crònica i diatari del capellà

J. EMILI ROIG

Original title: Alfons de Borja i Roderic de Borja segons la Crònica i dietari del capellà d’Alfons el Magnànim

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Keywords: Alexandre VI, Alfons de Borja, Borja, Calixt III, Diary, Roderic de Borja, Valence.

Medieval diaries are a valuable source of knowledge about daily occurrences that their author wanted to record. The Dietari del capellà d’Alfons el Magnànim is a remarkable source for the lives of two characters thyat belonged to the Borja/Borgia family, Alfons de Borja and Roderic de Borja (Popes Callistus III and Alexander VI respectively).