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Presentation
Introduction
Antonio CORTIJO & Vicent MARTINES
Original title: Presentació
Articles
State, nation and national feeling in the Late Middle Ages
Guillem CHISMOL
Original title: Estado, nación y sentimiento nacional en la Baja Edad Media
Keywords: Historiography, Middle Ages, Modern State, Nation, Taxation.
The article analyses the formation of the modern state during the later middle ages (13th-15th centuries) in Western Europe. It links the formation of this to the elites close to the monarch with the deployment of complex strategies of collective identification of the notables with the monarchy, the country and the national community. Attention is also given to the materiality of the State, present through permanent taxation, which in turn generated national feelings.
The tree and the light. Signs and significances in the Llibre d’amic e amat by Ramon Llull
Maria SAIZ RAIMUNDO
Original title: L’arbre i la llum. Signes i significacions al Llibre d’amic e amat de Ramon Llull
Keywords: Llibre d’amic e amat, Mysticism, Ramon Llull, Sign, Significance.
All the creatures are divided into signs and significates: all signs are things, and, in addition, there are significant. In the Middle Ages, the world is a place of theophanys and, therefore, all creatures and all creation are sign of God. Thus, the signs become a fundamental element of a medieval culture and, obviously, they also play an important role in the literature of the time. In this work, we suggest proposing identifying and analyzing two of the elements that have an important significance in the Llibre d'amic i amat by Ramon Llull: the tree and the light. This element serves the hermit (l’amic) in the cam to the search of God (l’amat), since they are at the service of the first Llull intention: to love, to understand and to serve God.
The step from Philosophy to Ethics: Ramón Llull and Bernat Metge
Julia BUTIÑÁ JIMÉNEZ
Original title: El paso de la Filosofía a la Ética: Ramón Llull y Bernat Metge
Keywords: Bernat Metge, Catalan Literature, Humanisme of the Crown of Aragon, Middle Ages, Ramon Llull.
At the beginning of the secular philosophy, there is the transition from Philosophy to Ethics, which inaugurated in the thirteenth century Ramon Llull, who assimilates Bernat Metge in his humanistic dialogue Lo somni in the next century. It will involve the transition from the Middle Ages to the Modern, passing from Humanism to the Renaissance.
Horace in Curial e Güelfa?
Sònia GROS LLADÓS
Original title: Horaci en Curial e Güelfa?
Keywords: Bacchus, Benvenuto da Imola, Curial e Güelfa, Horace.
This article analyzes the possible presence of Horace, not studied so far by the specialists, in the novel Curial e Güelfa. Firstly, the most obvious points of contact are established: the relevance of the classical deities of poetry, Apol·lo and Bacchus, and the respective domains to which they were associated. The transmission of classical texts is revised through the exegetic tradition of the Commedia and finally a proposal of the Anonymous Catalan author’s interpretation is offered.
A commentary for Ausiàs March. The song CXVIII
Cèlia NADAL PASCUAL
Original title: Comentar Ausiàs March. El cant CXVIII
Keywords: Ausiàs March – song CXVIII – Commentary.
Commentary of the song CXVIII by Ausiàs March. A premise contextualizes this sample within a wider project; it includes a short methodological guidelines. The commentary includes a complete paraphrase of the text and an interpretative reading, with special reference to the articulation of the meaning.
Català de Valleriola’s (1568-1608) memory in the bibliography from XVIth to XXth century
Carles FENOLLOSA
Original title: La memòria de Català de Valleriola (1568-1608) en la bibliografia del segle XVI al XX
Keywords: 16th Century, Catalan Literature, Català de Valeriola, Diaries, Memorialistic, Valencia.
This paper provides a general view of the memory which the subsequent bibliographers left about Bernat Català de Valleriola in their works from the XVIth to the XXth.
Edition and Study of the Relationship of the Feast of Saint Thomas (1656), by Josep Aragonés
Elia CALBO BOTELLA
Original title: Edició i Estudi de la Relació de la Festa de Sant Tomàs (1656), de Josep Aragonés
Keywords: Catalan literature, Memorial, Modern Age, Relation, Valencia.
This article presents the study and regularized spelling edition of Relació de la Festa de Sant Tomàs written by the Valencian notary Josep Aragonés in 1656. This, is our intention to make an approximation to its author and to the text. Finally, we offer the edition of the aforementioned relation, using the criterion of regularized spelling, since the original has not been preserved, but we must start whit an edition made at beginning of the 20th century. Our purpose is to present this edition as one more step in the process of recovering texts in Catalan during the modern age.
The Incunabula from the Valencian Chapter Library: traces of a llibreria vella y antiga
María Luz MANDINGORRA LLAVATA, José Vicente BOSCÁ CODINA
Original title: Los incunables de la Catedral de Valencia: huellas de una llibreria vella y antiga
Keywords: History of libraries, Incunabula, Valencia Cathedral.
The Valencia Cathedral presently retains 117 incunabula which correspond to 85 different editions. The aim of this article is to show the origin and development of this collection since the Late Middle Ages until today. To this end, we have studied the material features of the books, especially their marks of ownership and provenance. In addition to this, we have analyzed four inventories of the Valencian Chapter Library that were conducted throughout the 16th, 17th and 19th centuries, as well as the inventory prepared by José Sanchis Sivera (1930) and the Catalogue published by Elías Olmos Canalda in 1951. This analysis has allowed us to identify many of the editions preserved today by the Cathedral along with others that have been lost over time, for reasons ranging from the expurgations during the 16th and 17th centuries to a possible transfer to other institutions. Besides, we have been able to establish the early constitution of the collection, since almost 60% of the editions owned at present by the Valencia Cathedral were already there in the middle of the 16th century.
