Entrevista com Ricardo da Costa
Curial e Guelfa
Interview with Ricardo da Costa about the novel of chivalry Curial e Guelfa.
Flechas de ouro o Amor todas lançou!
Ausiàs March (c.1397-1439) e as vítimas do Amor
Analysis of Poem (Dictat) LXXIX by the Valencian poet Ausiàs March (c.1397-1439) in which March develops the classic allegory of the arrows of Love to make a poetic meditation on the authentic love of lovers from the Past. For this, the song I love with mind and heart, by the Gascon troubadour Guiraut de Calanson (fl.1202-1212).
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.
Como a Cristandade veio para a Islândia
Nú hefr þat, hversu kristni kom á Ísland: os ricos proprietários rurais e a cristianização da Islândia (sécs.IX-XIII)
This work analyses the Íslendingabok (XII century) written by Ari Þorgilsson fróði (1069-1148), the Hungrvaca (c.1200-1206) and the Kristni Saga (c.1250-1284) in relation to the Icelandic 10th-13th centuries’ political context and the archaeological records.
A contemplação anagógica
Na Abadia de Saint-Denis
(séc.XII)
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.