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Caelestia of mediaeval neoplatonism
Between the late-Antiquity period and the development of the Western Humanism in Europe the system of ideas called Neoplatonic Thought influences different interdisciplinary areas of knowledge.
Alfons Puigarnau
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UNIVERSITY OF THE MIDDLE AGES: THE CONTEXT OF INTELLECTUAL AND CULTURAL TRADITIONS. PART I
The cultural renaissance of the XII century – «Romanesque Renaissance» – is designated in the article as an epoch which intellectual movements ensured the flourishing of the culture of Latin patristics, inherited from Rome in the Middle Ages. It is shown
Mikhail A. Kornienko
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Vom Glasbläser oder Geist und Hauch, Diversitas und Assimilatio in Cusanus’ „De Genesi“
Nicholas of Cusa’s “De genesi”, which begins as a commentary on the Book of Genesis, offers a reflection on the unfolding of the Divine into the world.
Wolfgang Christian Schneider
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The meaning of prooimions in Plato’s dialogues, using the example of the prooimion in the dialogue “Parmenides” [PDF]
Introduction. Prologues or introductions, prooimions, which defi ned the subject of the dialogue (σκοπός), described the place, time, and characters, played a key role in the dramatic structure of Plato’s dialogues. In
Kosykhin, Vitaliy G. +1 more
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Vasari and portraiture: function, aesthetics and propaganda [PDF]
This article examines how portraiture is presented in Giorgio Vasari’s Lives (1550 and 1568). The Lives claims portraits are to remember the dead and instruct the living; to do this, they must be accurate copies of the sitter.
Joseph Hammond
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Why Aquinas Stopped Commenting on Boethius’s De Trinitate
The article is an attempt to answer the question of why Aquinas stops his commentary on Boethius’s De Trinitate at question six, article four, whereas this is before the point in the treatise where Boethius gets to the heart of the subject matter.
Faustinus Ik. Ugwuanyi
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Via activa a via contemplativa vo vybraných interpretáciách renesančných diel Erwinom Panofskym
The paper deals with the processing of the theme of active and contemplative life in three selected examples of Renaissance art, namely in Dürer’s engravings Knight, Death and the Devil and Saint Jerome in His Study and Titian’s painting Sacred and ...
Stanislava Kustrová
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The literary framework of Solomon Ibn Gabirol’s Fons Vitae is a conversation between a master and a disciple. In this article, the nature of the disciple’s questions will be analyzed in order to explain the advantages of the dialogical ...
Aviram Ravitsky
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Eros and Etiology in Love’s Labour’s Lost
In Love’s Labour’s Lost, the creation of an academe where study is posited as the antidote to the diseases of the mind caused by worldly desire results in an epidemic of lovesickness.
Darryl Chalk
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Algo más sobre Venus y Cupido en las Soledades
When dealing with the couple of Venus and Cupido, the article sets out to reconstruct the mythological theme underlyng the amorous plot of the Soledades which their protagonist is faced with.
Giulia Poggi
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