Maiorca and Aragon in time of Ramon Llull (1250-1300)
Ricardo da Costa
Original title: Maiorca e Aragão no tempo de Ramon Llull (1250-1300)
Published in Mirabilia 1
Keywords: Aragon, James II of Maiorca, Maiorca, Medieval politics, Peter III of Aragon, Ramon Llull, War.
Description and analysis of the political situation of the kingdons of Maiorca and Aragon in Ramon Llull's time, with enphasis in the relationship of Llull with the kings James II of Maiorca and Peter III of Aragon. This description has for an objective the compreension of the historical circunstances that influenced the political thoughts of Ramon Llull.
Misogyny and sanctity in the Late Middle Ages: the three female models in the Book of Wonders (1289) of Ramon Llull
Eliane Ventorim
Original title: Misoginia e Santidade na Baixa Idade Média: os três modelos femininos no Livro das Maravilhas (1289) de Ramon Llull
Published in Ramon Llull (1232-1316): the cooperation among different cultures and the inter-religious dialogue
Keywords: Holiness, Misogyny, Ramon Llull, Woman.
Nosce teipsum in Ramon Llull’s work
Jaume MEDINA
Original title: Nosce teipsum en l’obra de Ramon Llull
Published in Ramon Llull. Seventh centenary
Keywords: Anthropology, Catalan Literature, Ethics, Medieval Philosophy, Middel Ages, Ramon Llull, Theology.
Even though the presence of the Delphic precept «γνῶθι σαυτόν» («nosce teipsum») in Ramon Llull’s work is scarce, the research done in the present study reaches a twofold conclusion: firstly, the master's knowledge of the precept; secondly, the importance he gave to it in some central passages of his production.
Parallelism between the Mahometan intercession and the Llibre del gentil e dels tres savis. Another perspective
Sergi ESPINOSA POLO
Original title: Paral·lelismes entre la intercessió mahometana i el Llibre del gentil e dels tres savis. Una altra perspectiva
Published in
Keywords: Eschatology, Islam, Ramon Llull.
The parliament of the Saracen in the Llibre del gentil e dels tres savis exemplifies Ramon Llull's way of showing us the cultural and religious elements that revolve around Islam. We will see how easy it is to see the degree of fidelity that underlies the parliament of the Saracen if we compare it with the Koran and the Sunna. On the one hand, the Lullian vision of the Islamic religion will be analysed. On the other hand, the aim is to highlight the respectful way in which Ramon Llull treated both the Muslims in his work and Islam, which was far removed from the aspirations of the time.
Philosophy & Art: The Dispute between Faith and Understanding (1303). The Allegory in philosophical thought and Baroque Art: Ramon Llull (1232-1316) & Vermeer (1632-1675)
Luís Carlos Silva de SOUSA
Original title: Filosofia & Arte: A Disputa entre a Fé e o Entendimento (1303). A Alegoria no pensamento filosófico e na Arte Barroca: Ramon Llull (1232-1316) & Vermeer (1632-1675)
Published in The World of Tradition
Keywords: Allegory, Art, Faith, Johannes Vermeer, Philosophy, Ramon Llull, Reason, Understanding.
The purpose of this article is to analyse the work of Ramon Llull (1232-1316), Disputatio fidei et intellectus (1303), comparing it with the painting by Johannes Vermeer (1632-1675), The Allegory of Faith (ca. 1672-4). The statute of the Allegory is examined in Llull and Vermeer. It is argued that both work with the theme of the personification of the Allegories and that, in the relationship between faith and reason, the transcendence of the mysteries of the Christian faith is preserved, without hindering the power of reason.
Quia nolunt dimittere credere pro credere, sed credere per intelligere: Ramon Llull and his Jewish Contemporaries
Harvey Hames
Published in Ramon Llull (1232-1316): the cooperation among different cultures and the inter-religious dialogue
Keywords: Art, Correlatives, Kabbalah, Ramon Llull, Sefirot, Solomon ibn Adret, Trinity, conversion, religious disputation.
Unlike most of his contemporaries, Ramon Llull understood the need of actually engaging with the beliefs of his Jewish and Muslim contemporaries, rather than just with their texts, if he wanted to attain their conversion to Christianity. Coming from the Iberian peninsula where new theologies like Kabbalah were gaining ground among the Jews, Llull harnessed its central tenets in order to convince the Jews, by "necessary reason", of the inherent truth of Christianity. This article discusses the intellectual milieau in which Llull developed his Art, shows how he intended it to be used, and brings a Jewish response by Solomon ibn Adret, leader of the Jewish community in Catalonia to the challenge posed by Llull.
RAMON LLULL. Libro de los correlativos
Fernando ZALAMEA
Original title: RAMON LLULL. Libro de los correlativos
Published in Monastic and Scholastic Philosophy in the Middle Ages
Keywords: Filosofia medieval, Liber correlativorum innatorum, Ramon Llull.
Ramon Llull and the Liber contra Antichristum
Esteve JAULENT
Original title: Raimundo Lúlio e o Livro contra o Anticristo
Published in Ramon Llull. Seventh centenary
Keywords: Faith and Reason, Liber contra Antichristum, Logic, Metaphysics, Ramon Llull, Theology and Philosophy.
A superficial interpretation of the “Book Against the Antichrist” may lead to several misunderstandings of Llull’s thought regarding the relation between Philosophy and Theology: this is particularly true for Llull’s purported rationalism that would despise knowledge through faith and lead to a false equivalence among religions. This article presents a new approach to Llull’s works from a metaphysical and a logical point of view: while holding the truths of faith in abeyance, Llull draws exclusively rational consequences which, however, correspond to revealed truths.
Ramon Llull and the Muslims: a difficult propose for conversion
Gabriel ENSENYAT PUJOL
Original title: La difícil proposta lul·liana per a la conversió dels musulmans
Published in
Keywords: Dialogue, Force, Muslims, Ramon Llull, conversion.
Although Ramon Llull has a knowledge of Islam, different factors impossibilities the success of the mission. Some factors were interiors of Christianity and another were different causes: the difficulty of the subject he chose, the psychological restraints, the opposition of Islamic public power, the scarce predisposition to dialogue of Muslim people and, finally, the impossibility to impose a religion without using force.
Ramon Llull’s proposals to the Council of Vienne (1311-1312). A synthesis of Christian prehumanism
Manuel ORTUÑO ARREGUI
Original title: Las propuestas de Ramon Llull al Concilio de Vienne (1311-1312). Una síntesis del prehumanismo Cristiano
Published in
Keywords: Christian, Council Vienne, Humanism, Ramon Llull.
The Council of Vienne (1311-12) proposed to make proposals around the crusade. In this context, Ramon Llull made a series of proposals before his convocation, which were synthesized in the memorial Petitio in concilio generali [sc. Vienne] ad acquirendam terram sanctam (1311). They can be summarized in three thematic nuclei: the foundation of chairs for the teaching of oriental languages; the reform of the military orders to conquer the Holy Land, and, finally, the defense of the nature of the human person against Averroism that he considered an error. Of all these proposals, he succeeded in achieving the first and thus endowed European universities with the study of oriental languages for the later missionary enterprise. Without a doubt, a fundamental element in the synthesis of prehumanist thought that he promulgated until his last days of life as an influential man in the thought of the western Mediterranean and Europe.
