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Some aspects of the philosophical discourse and the medieval rhetoric elements contained in the sermons of Saint Vincent Ferrer (1350-1419), especially his thoughts about a theme currently and universally present in the Christian Middle Ages: the moral virtues or cardinal virtues.

Iconographic study of images of medieval peasants in Chartres and Amiens cathedrals.

Iconographic study of medieval images about martyrdom and miracles attributed to Thomas Becket.

Two examples of textual and imagistic representations of Dominican and Franciscan friars contained in the Cantigas de Santa María.

The Regimen sanitatis by physician Catalan Arnaldus de Villa Nova, with emphasis on diet prescribed by the author for the prevention of disease and the search for better health.

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.

Brief analysis of Lo Somni (1399) work of Bernat Metge, particularly the educational and moral point of view.

The purpose is to present the academic community our translation of Cantiga 103, made ​​directly from the Galician-Portuguese, in addition to its close thematic relationship with the corresponding illumination.

Catalan embroidery, one of the most important textile works of Romanesque art who tells the Christian cosmology, the Heaven and the Nature in its original state. Our proposal is to analyze some aspects of his iconography, especially the meaning of the Cosmocrator God and His relationship with the philosophy of St. Augustine.

The imaginary debate in Librum disputationis Petri et Raimundi phantastici and analyze the limits of the medieval dialogue. Debate or conversion? In addition, I was a iconographic analysis of one of the most famous artistic representations of Ramon Llull: “The rear of the army and relief of Mr. Ramon Llull of Majorca to destroy the tower of Falsehood and Ignorance”, seventh miniature from Breviculum (1325).

Comparative analysis of three virtues of the Virgin Mary – Goodness, Truth and Justice – narrated in the Cantiga 140 of Cantigas de Santa Maria (c.1270-1282) by Alfonso X of Castile (1221-1284), called the Wise, and the Book of Santa Maria (c.1290) written by Catalan philosopher Ramon Llull (1232-1316).

Brief iconographic analysis of Cantiga 25 by Cantigas de Santa Maria, which is narrated a miracle of the Virgin with a loan of money from a Jew to a Christian, and consequently miraculous conversion of the Jew.

On the occasion of the celebration of the 15th anniversary and the publishing of the volume 200 of the academic journals of Cemoroc, Centro de Estudos Medievais Oriente & Ocidente (Feusp), this article presents the landmarks of this editorial history concerning Medieval studies.

The concept of Beauty and its consequent aesthetic enjoyment varied according the transformations of human societies in time. Our purpose is present the aesthetic of the body that some medieval philosophers developed in his treatises and some representations in medieval images.

The purpose is to present our translation of the aforementioned work, the first to be made into Portuguese (directly from the original 1399 text, in Ancient Catalan), and analyze the theme of the Dreams and the oniric universe to Philosophy, since Bernat's text bears a close relationship to Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy.

The Dream (Lo somni) of Bernat Metge (1340-1413) is one of the classical works of the fifteenth century. The purpose is to present the evidences presented by Metge for the immortality of the soul, important meditation to Medieval Philosophy.