Amor e Crime, Castigo e Redenção na Glória da Cruzada de Reconquista
Afonso VIII de Castela nas batalhas de Alarcos (1195) e Las Navas de Tolosa (1212)
Narrative of two important battles of Alfonso VIII of Castile.
Ramón Llull, la cruzada y las órdenes militares de caballería
The military orders of chivalry in the works of the philosopher Ramon Llull.
Bernat Metge (1340-1413) nos trópicos
Um humanista catalão no Brasil
The purpose is to present some characteristics and peculiarities of the first translation of Lo Somni, by Bernat Metge, to Portuguese, realized by Ricardo da Costa and revised by Armando Alexandre dos Santos. For this, we will comment some literary aspects more typically humanists of the work. Lastly, we will discourse about the reception of the metgian text for the Portuguese language.
A Igreja Católica e a escravidão
According to its detractors, the Catholic Church would have supported the slave system, especially what happened in Africa in the modern period (XVI-XIX centuries). Is this true?
A Roda da Fortuna nos Dictats de Ausiàs March (c.1397-1439)
The allegory of the Wheel of Fortune is a recurring theme in medieval thought. The notion of fortune was inherited from a double tradition and adapted by Ausiàs March (c.1397-1439) to literary use. We must, therefore, deal with this allegory in the Dictats, by March, and show how the Valencian poet literarily developed the theme of the instability of the Wheel of Fortune in his poems.