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Book The Presence of Francesc Eiximenis in

Download or read book The Presence of Francesc Eiximenis in written by David J. Viera and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 5 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Francesc Eiximenis

Download or read book Francesc Eiximenis written by Francesc Eiximenis and published by Tamesis Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A selection from the works of the Catalan Franciscan, Francesc Eiximenis. Francesc Eiximenis is an outstanding figure in the ranks of the mendicant orders who, in the late Middle Ages, strove to educate the lower echelons of society. Born in Gerona, around 1330, probably to a comfortable middle-class family, Eiximenis entered the Franciscan order at a very early age, studied in Oxford, and probably also in Paris, and obtained the degree of master of theology in Toulouse. Later he combined teaching with the composing of his works. Among these stands out the monumental and widely known Lo Crestià (The Christian), in which Eiximenis aimed to include all contemporary university knowledge, adapted for a lay public whose basic level of instruction was far below that of clerics. The same didactic purpose is seen in the Libro de los ángeles (Book of the Angels), the Libro de las mujeres (Book of the Women) and the Vita Christi. Eiximenis, by then bishop of Elna, died in 1409. Among the many themes that recur in his extensive literary production, this anthology concentrates on his ideas on the transmission of knowledge, on education and on culture. The introduction and selection of texts is by David Guixeras and Xavier Renedo. ROBERT D. HUGHES is a translator and researcher with particular expertise in the fields of fine art, the history of ideas and Catalan culture. Published in association with Editorial Barcino

Book A Partial Edition of Francesc Eiximenis   Dotz   Del Cresti     Chs 1 97

Download or read book A Partial Edition of Francesc Eiximenis Dotz Del Cresti Chs 1 97 written by Francesc Eiximenis and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 966 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Partial Edition of Francesc Eiximenis  Dotz   Del Cresti    Chs  1 97   microform

Download or read book A Partial Edition of Francesc Eiximenis Dotz Del Cresti Chs 1 97 microform written by Eiximenis, Francesc, ca. 1340-ca. 1409 and published by National Library of Canada. This book was released on 1988 with total page 966 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Mystical Presence of Christ

Download or read book The Mystical Presence of Christ written by Richard Kieckhefer and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2022-09-15 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mystical Presence of Christ investigates the connections between exceptional experiences of Christ's presence and ordinary devotion to Christ in the late medieval West. Unsettling the notion that experiences of seeing Christ's figure or hearing Christ speak are simply exceptional events that happen at singular moments, Richard Kieckhefer reveals the entanglements between these experiences and those that occur through the imagery, language, and rituals of ordinary, everyday devotional culture. Kieckhefer begins his book by reconsidering the "who" and the "how" of Christ's mystical presence. He argues that Christ's humanity and divinity were equally important preconditions for encounters, both exceptional and ordinary, which Kieckhefer proposes as existing on a spectrum of experience that moves from presupposition to intuition and finally to perception. Kieckhefer then examines various contexts of Christ manifestations—during prayer, meditation, and liturgy, for example—with attention to gender dynamics and the relationship between saintly individuals and their hagiographers. Through penetrating discussions of a diverse set of texts and figures across the long fourteenth century (Angela of Foligno, the nuns of Helfta, Margery Kempe, Dorothea of Montau, Meister Eckhart, Henry Suso, and Walter Hilton, among others), Kieckhefer shows that seemingly exceptional manifestations of Christ were also embedded in ordinary religious experience. Wide-ranging in scope and groundbreaking in methodology, The Mystical Presence of Christ is a magisterial work that rethinks the interplay between the exceptional and the ordinary in the workings of late medieval religion.

Book Chariots of Ladies

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  • Author : Nuria Silleras-Fernandez
  • Publisher : Cornell University Press
  • Release : 2015-07-28
  • ISBN : 1501701649
  • Pages : 329 pages

Download or read book Chariots of Ladies written by Nuria Silleras-Fernandez and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2015-07-28 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Chariots of Ladies, Núria Silleras-Fernández traces the development of devotion and female piety among the Iberian aristocracy from the late Middle Ages into the Golden Age, and from Catalonia to the rest of Iberia and Europe via the rise of the Franciscan Observant movement. A program of piety and morality devised by Francesc Eiximenis, a Franciscan theologian, royal counselor, and writer in Catalonia in the 1390s, came to characterize the feminine ideal in the highest circles of the Iberian aristocracy in the era of the Empire. As Eiximenis’s work was adapted and translated into Castilian over the century and a half that followed, it became a model of devotion and conduct for queens and princesses, including Isabel the Catholic and her descendants, who ruled over Portugal and the Spanish Empire of the Hapsburgs. Silleras-Fernández uses archival documentation, letters, manuscripts, incunabula, and a wide range of published material to clarify how Eiximenis’s ideas on gender and devotion were read by Countess Sanxa Ximenis d’Arenós and Queen Maria de Luna of Aragon and how they were then changed by his adaptors and translators in Castile for new readers (including Isabel the Catholic and Juana the Mad), and in sixteenth-century Portugal for new patronesses (Juana’s daughter, Catalina of Habsburg, and Catalina’s daughter, Maria Manuela, first wife of Philip II). Chariots of Ladies casts light on a neglected dimension of encounter and exchange in Iberia from the late fourteenth to the mid-sixteenth centuries.

Book The Serpent and the Rose  The Immaculate Conception and Hispanic Poetry in the Late Medieval Period

Download or read book The Serpent and the Rose The Immaculate Conception and Hispanic Poetry in the Late Medieval Period written by Lesley K. Twomey and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2008-06-03 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Serpent and the Rose examines the theological and liturgical context for the doctrine of the Immaculate Conception in the Middle Ages, from primary sources in Iberian archives. Its main focus is a study of Marian poetry from Alfonso the Wise and Gonzalo de Berceo through to the poetry collections of the late fifteenth century, showing how poets took themes from the Bible and apocryphal literature, combining them to defend and praise Mary’s conception without sin. Individual chapters assess how they depicted Mary’s prefiguration in the Old Testament by the Woman who defeated the serpent, the young bride of the Song of Songs, or the semi-deity, Wisdom, how they portray her as the mystic rose and as the new Eve.

Book The Politics of Emotion

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  • Author : Nuria Silleras-Fernandez
  • Publisher : Cornell University Press
  • Release : 2024-02-15
  • ISBN : 1501773887
  • Pages : 389 pages

Download or read book The Politics of Emotion written by Nuria Silleras-Fernandez and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2024-02-15 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Politics of Emotion explores the intersection of powerful emotional states—love, melancholy, grief, and madness—with gender and political power on the Iberian Peninsula from the Middle Ages to the early modern period. Using an array of sources—literary texts, medical treatises, and archival documents—Nuria Silleras-Fernandez focuses on three royal women: Isabel of Portugal (1428–1496), queen-consort of Castile; Isabel of Aragon (1470–1498), queen-consort of Portugal; and Juana of Castile (1479–1555), queen of Castile and its empire. Each of these women was perceived by their contemporaries as having gone "mad" as a result of excessive grief, and all three were related to Isabel the Catholic (1451–1504), queen of Castile and a woman lauded in her time as a paragon of reason. Through the lives and experiences of these royal women and the observations, judgments, and machinations of their families, entourages, and circles of writers, chronicles, courtiers, moralists, and physicians in their orbits, Silleras-Fernandez addresses critical questions about how royal women in Iberia were expected to behave, the affective standards to which they were held, and how perceptions about their emotional states influenced the way they were able to exercise power. More broadly, The Politics of Emotion details how the court cultures in medieval and early modern Castile and Portugal contributed to the development of new notions of emotional excess and mental illness.

Book La ciudad y el pr  ncipe

Download or read book La ciudad y el pr ncipe written by José-Luis Martín and published by Edicions Universitat Barcelona. This book was released on 2004 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forma parte esta obra de un intento de dar a conocer la obra de Francesc Eiximenis, autor, en los años finales del siglo XIV, de Lo Crestià, catecismo y al mismo tiempo enciclopedia del saber de su época. La ciudad y el príncipe son estudiados con todo detalle en el volumen doce (Dotzè del Crestià) en el que se recoge cuanto puede saberse sobre el origen de las ciudades, las razones de su creación y las clases de ciudad, entendida ésta como “congregación de mutuo acuerdo de muchas personas que participan y viven juntas, orientada hacia la vida virtuosa y que ha de bastarse a sí misma”..En la segunda parte de este volumen, explica Eiximenis el origen y la situación del regimiento o poder de dirección, para concluir que lo mejor para todos es tener al frente de la comunidad a un noble y buen rey con autoridad y control de la justicia, dispuesto a trabajar por el honor y gloria de Dios, capaz de hacer que los súbditos vivan en caridad y amor y preparado para guardar la paz como bien supremo.

Book La Cor  nica

Download or read book La Cor nica written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 948 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Spanish medieval language and literature newsletter." (varies).

Book Els Menorets

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  • Author : Jill Rosemary Webster
  • Publisher : PIMS
  • Release : 1993
  • ISBN : 9780888441140
  • Pages : 486 pages

Download or read book Els Menorets written by Jill Rosemary Webster and published by PIMS. This book was released on 1993 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Ramon Llull as a Vernacular Writer

Download or read book Ramon Llull as a Vernacular Writer written by Lola Badia and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2016 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors maintain that Llull was an atypical 'scholar' because he enjoyed a form of access to knowledge that differed from the norm and because he organized the production and dissemination of his writings in a creative and unconventional fashion. Ramon Llull (1232-1316), mystic, missionary, philosopher and author of narrative and poetry, wrote both in Latin and in the vernacular claiming he had been given a new science to unveil the Truth. This book shows why his Latin andvernacular books cannot be read as if they had been written in isolation from one another. Llull was an atypical 'scholar' because he enjoyed a form of access to knowledge that differed from the norm and because he organized theproduction and dissemination of his writings in a creative and unconventional fashion. At a time when learned texts and university culture were conveyed for the most part using the vehicle of Latin, he wrote a substantial proportion of his theological and scientific works in his maternal Catalan while, at the same time, he was deeply involved in the circulation of such works in other Romance languages. These circumstances do not preclude the fact that a considerable number of the titles comprising his extensive output of more than 260 works were written directly in Latin, or that he had various books which were originally conceived in Catalan subsequently translated or adapted intoLatin. Lola Badia is a professor in the Catalan Philology Departament at the University of Barcelona. Joan Santanach is Lecturer of Catalan Philology at the University of Barcelona. Albert Soler (1963) is Lecturer of Catalan Philology at the University of Barcelona.

Book Psalterium Alias Laudatorium Papae Benedicto XIII Dedicatum

Download or read book Psalterium Alias Laudatorium Papae Benedicto XIII Dedicatum written by Francesc Eiximenis and published by PIMS. This book was released on 1988 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Other Side of Empire

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  • Author : Andrew W. Devereux
  • Publisher : Cornell University Press
  • Release : 2020-06-15
  • ISBN : 150174013X
  • Pages : 184 pages

Download or read book The Other Side of Empire written by Andrew W. Devereux and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2020-06-15 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Via rigorous study of the legal arguments Spain developed to justify its acts of war and conquest, The Other Side of Empire illuminates Spain's expansionary ventures in the Mediterranean in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. Andrew Devereux proposes and explores an important yet hitherto unstudied connection between the different rationales that Spanish jurists and theologians developed in the Mediterranean and in the Americas. Devereux describes the ways in which Spaniards conceived of these two theatres of imperial ambition as complementary parts of a whole. At precisely the moment that Spain was establishing its first colonies in the Caribbean, the Crown directed a series of Old World conquests that encompassed the Kingdom of Naples, Navarre, and a string of presidios along the coast of North Africa. Projected conquests in the eastern Mediterranean never took place, but the Crown seriously contemplated assaults on Egypt, Greece, Turkey, and Palestine. The Other Side of Empire elucidates the relationship between the legal doctrines on which Spain based its expansionary claims in the Old World and the New. The Other Side of Empire vastly expands our understanding of the ways in which Spaniards, at the dawn of the early modern era, thought about religious and ethnic difference, and how this informed political thought on just war and empire. While focusing on imperial projects in the Mediterranean, it simultaneously presents a novel contextual background for understanding the origins of European colonialism in the Americas.