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© by Ricardo da Costa © 1995-2021
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© by Ricardo da Costa © 1995-2021
All rights reserved.
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The purpose is to present the methodology of the Spanish historian José Enrique Ruiz- Domènec (1948- ) for the study of the Past: the appreciation of Music – one of the seven liberal arts – in historical studies as a key element for understanding the history of cultures in time.
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Nuestra propuesta es presentar el concepto de Belleza en las obras Retòrica Nova (1301) y el Llibre de contemplació (1271-1274) del filósofo Ramón Llull, idea central retórica para convertir el mundo al Cristianismo, y mostrar sus respectivos temas, exempla y proverbios.
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Iconographic analysis of medieval frescoes about hell with the confrontation of biblical texts, philosophers and writers of the thirteenth century.
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The purpose is to present a ripe fruit of artistic renewal (renovatio) from the XII century: the representations of peasant life in the sculptures of Benedetto Antelami exposed in the Baptistery of Parma.
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The contents of the Second Book of Convivio (c. 1304-1307) from Dante and discuss the philosophical foundations of his analogy between Seven Liberal Arts and seven planets.
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This paper analyses the subjects of Love and Beauty in the Risalah fi’l- ‘ishq (A Treatise on Love) of the philosopher Ibn Sīnā (980-1037).
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To reform the Abbey with a New Aesthetic (later to be known as Gothic), Suger used art to convey his interpretation of Christian theology, and so materialize, artistically, tangible means by which one could ascend from the material to the immaterial.
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The aesthetic ideas of Umberto Eco (1932-2016) in his book Art and Beauty in the Middle Ages (1987), particularly the aesthetic sensibilities and interests of medieval themes in the metaphysics of light (claritas), the symbolism and the allegory, and the aesthetic vision of the universe.
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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.
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The crisis of History and decay of historical consciousness in the postmodern era of the absolute relativism.
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Iconographic study of images of medieval peasants in Chartres and Amiens cathedrals.
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The purpose is to analyze the iconography illuminations from three songs and one praise presents in the Cantigas de Santa María, by Alfonso the Wise.
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Iconographic study of medieval images about martyrdom and miracles attributed to Thomas Becket.
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Two examples of textual and imagistic representations of Dominican and Franciscan friars contained in the Cantigas de Santa María.
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Multilingual Joan Roís de Corella – The Relevance of a Fifteenth-Century Classic of the Crown of Aragon.
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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.
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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.
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Brief analysis of Lo Somni (1399) work of Bernat Metge, particularly the educational and moral point of view.
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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.
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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.
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The Conference will present the Catalan philosopher meditations on God's foreknowledge, preceded by considerations of St. Thomas Aquinas. The basis of our presentation will be The Book of Contemplation, first great treatise written by Ramon Llull.
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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).
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Comparative analysis of three virtues of the Virgin Mary – Goodness, Truth and Justice – narrated in the Cantiga 140 of Cantigas de Santa Maria by Alfonso X of Castile (1221-1284), called the Wise, and the Book of Santa Maria (c. 1290) written by Catalan philosopher Ramon Llull.
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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.
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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?