Ali haverá pranto e ranger de dentes
O Inferno na Arte e na Filosofia da Idade Média
Iconographic analysis of medieval frescoes about hell with the confrontation of biblical texts, philosophers and writers of the thirteenth century.
Dominicanos, os Cães do Senhor
A Ordem dos Pregadores na renovação urbana e intelectual do Ocidente Medieval (séc.XIII)
This paper presents a brief historical context of the effervescent 13th century of the Medieval West and the importance of the Order of Preachers in urban renewal and in the consolidation of Christian thought in the newly founded universities.
Os camponeses na arte de Bruegel, o Velho (c.1525-1569)
Genre painting, a tradition in History of Art, was very developed by Bruegel the Elder (c. 1525-1569). His scenes of daily peasant life profoundly marked the memory we have of pre-industrial Europe. The purpose of this paper is to analyze his image of the peasant: his life, parties, dances and remarkable moments of its existence.
A gênese da concepção monárquica no Ocidente cristão
Séculos IV-VI
The birth of the Monarchy in the Medieval West. Three paradigmatic cases that helped to build the monarchical ideal are analysed: the conversions to Christianity of Constantine and Clovis I and the submission of Theodosius I to the Roman Catholic Church.
A tradução literária, imersão no tempo e no espaço
A Literatura de Ramon Llull (1232-1316)
The act of translating is a spiritual incorporation into the world of the writer whose work has been translated. The concept of understanding weighted by the fusion of horizons (Horizontverschmelzung) is fundamental to the translator’s aim to feel the historical-linguistic universe of the literary work in the most appropriate way possible. After this, the transfer of the original words and ideas to the translated language is a pondering process, in which the Past reemerges in all its verbal power.