Jan Gerard Joseph TER REEGEN and Tito Barros LEAL

Original title: Édipo em Colona à luz da filosofia ética aristotélica

Keywords: Aristotle, Ethics, Prudence, Sophocles, Tragedy.

The main purpose presented in this article is to analyze how the Sophoclean works influenced the Aristotelian ethical thought construction process. In order to conduct this analysis, the tragedy Oedipus at Colonus is used to arouse the discussion on central questions in the ethical thought of Aristotle, such as practical wisdom, caution and prudence. Therefore, it was necessary to re-compound the transition route between the political-mythical thought, expressed in the mythical temporality of the tragedies, and the political-ethical thought, experienced in the Athens daily routine during the fifth century B.C. However, it is not the proposal of this article to establish an evolutionist analysis concerning the Greek philosophical knowledge construction process. Since this process was done by human efforts, so it is a historical product, it is not a purpose of this work elaborate any kind of validation about one or another way (mythical or ethical) of comprehension, behavior and action. Thus, herein is offered a comparative view between these two possibilities in order to understand how one contributed to the construction of the other one.

Nachman FALBEL and Elton O. S. MEDEIROS

Original title: Os dois corpos do rei na Inglaterra Anglo-Saxônica

Keywords: Anglo-Saxon England, Beowulf, Royalty, Society.

Since the beginnings of the medieval period, one of the most prominent characters in this kind of society is the king. His presence is extremely important to the social harmony, hence the king is not only the ruler of the people, but also represents the godly powers that manifest through him. So, we will show how this king dual-figure is represented in Anglo-Saxon literature, not as just a heroic symbol of war, but as the guardian of his folk e keeper of peace.

Mariel V. PÉREZ

Original title: Estrategias de alianza y reproducción social en la aristocracia medieval leonesa: los Flaínez (siglos X-XI)

Keywords: Alliance, Aristocracy, Kingdom of Leon, Social reproduction.

In this article we will analyze the strategies of alliance of Leon medieval aristocracy, with the intention of revealing the important function they carried out in the social reproduction of the ruling class. We will focus the study in the Flaínez family, one of the most eminent aristocratic groups in the Kingdom of León during the 10th and 11th centuries.

Jó KLANOVICZ, Icles RODRIGUES and Rodrigo Prates de ANDRADE

Original title: “Venha a nós o Vosso reino”: a legitimação da Corte Medieval através da imagem da Corte Celestial

Keywords: Church, Court, King, Nobility, image.

This article studies the medieval court by a perspective of a historiographical readout of the political theology. The idea of an instrument of legitimation of the royal power based in the heavenly court and that mirrored in the earthly court. This conception is very present in the medieval iconography, that will be used in this analysis.

Mª Ángeles JORDANO BARBUDO

Original title: La Capilla Real de la Catedral de Córdoba y su repercusión en las fundaciones nobiliarias durante la Baja Edad Media

Keywords: Cordoba Cathedral, Mudejar, Royal Chapel, inscriptions, reforms.

The Royal Chapel, completed under Henry II of Trastamara in 1371, exerted a powerful influence on the nobility in Cordoba, which in its monumental buildings, be they funerary chapels, palatial houses or castles, adopted the Mudejar style as an expression of ostentation and power. Such glorification of their lineage can be seen in the representation of their coats of arms above the entrances to the halls and in their private chapels, decorated with plasterwork inspired by the flamboyant decoration of the Royal Chapel, whose excellent state of conservation is due to various reforms carried out between the 16th and 19th centuries, as has been shown by the inscriptions we have discovered on the base of the arches of the vaults and which we would like to make public in this article.

Cecilia DEVIA

Original title: La nobleza castellana bajomedieval y el rey: construcción y redistribución del poder

Keywords: Chronicles, King, Middle Ages, Nobility, Violence.

It discusses the relationships between the nobility and the king in the Chronicle of King Don Pedro by Pero Lopez de Ayala, in light of the model reproductive strategies of the dynastic State developed by Pierre Bourdieu. Emphasis is placed on the rational use of violence that govern the conduct of both the king and the nobles, especially in construction and redistribution of power.

Fernando MORENO CUADRO

Original title: Origen de las casas principales del señorío de Fuentecubierta (Córdoba, España)

Keywords: Estate, Fuencubierta, Gómez Suárez de Figueroa, Manor, Ruy Fernández de Córdoba.

One of the most important historic mansions in the city of Cordoba (Spain) is the one known as the Viana Palace, named after the marquises who were the last owners. The mansion’s origins go back to the 14th and 15th centuries, a time when the Lord of Fuencubierta bought a group of old 14th century houses from Teresa Carrillo which had formerly belonged to Leonor López, widow of the Lord Treasurer of Andalusia, Miguel Ruiz, and which he converted into his main residence. The aim of this work is to make a record of the houses during the late Middle Ages in connection with the Fuencubierta Manor and Estate, before it was rebuilt in Renaissance times to become the Estate of the Lords of Villaseca.

Rosa PLANAS FERRER

Original title: El concepte d’aristocràcia espiritual en el llibre primer del Kuzari

Keywords: Aristocracy, Halevi, Judaism, Kuzari, controversy.

The objective of the following work is showing, through the First Book of Kuzari, by Iehuda Halevi, firstly translated into Catalonian by Rabbi Jordi Gendra, one of the first formulations of the aristocratic origin of the Jewish population, defended by one of the most important poets of Judaism during the Jewish Diaspora. The book explains that through a divine selection, Israel is constituted as the authentic aristocracy of the world, due to its condition of a prophetic population it is situated over the rest of populations and in the Creational scale it’s only superadded by angels.

Júlia BUTINYÀ I JIMÉNEZ

Original title: Les noves aristocràcia i noblesa a les acaballes de l’Edat Mitjana a través de la novel•la catalana Curial e Güelfa