El pensamiento político franciscano de la Corona de Aragón (siglos XIII-XV): modelos, paradigmas e ideas
Rafael RAMIS BARCELÓ
Original title: O pensamento político franciscano da Coroa de Aragão (sécs. XIII-XV): modelos, paradigmas e ideias
Published in Medieval and Early Modern Iberian Peninsula Cultural History
Keywords: Crown of Aragon, Franciscan Political thought, Franciscanism, Middle Ages.
This paper aims to present the importance of Franciscanism in the political thought of the Crown of Aragon. After examining the settlement of the Franciscan Order in the Crown of Aragon and studying the obtainable historiography, a series of models are proposed through cross ideological currents, thinkers, political actors and basic issues of political medieval theory. This would support the idea that in the Crown of Aragon (in a broad sense) some traits can be individualized that can only be understood through Political Franciscanism.
Isabel de Villena: Prayer and Franciscan Spirituality
Lesley K TWOMEY
Published in Isabel de Villena (1430-1490)
Keywords: Franciscan prayer techniques, Franciscanism, Middle Ages, Orality, Passion.
This essay examines traces of the oral in the prayers written by Isabel de Villena (1430-1490), abbess of the Santa Trinitat convent in Valencia. The essay compares the prayers of Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane in the Vita Christi with St Francis’s Office of the Passion. It finds that whilst there are some similarities between St Francis’s Office and Villena’s Vita Christi, this is because of technique in using phrases from the Psalms rather than direct influence.
