Barbarians or/vs Romans? About Identities and Discoursive Categories
Daniele Gallindo Gonçalves SILVA; Mauricio da Cunha ALBUQUERQUE
Original title: Bárbaros ou/vs Romanos? Sobre Identidades e Categorias Discursivas
Published in Medieval and Early Modern Iberian Peninsula Cultural History
Keywords: Barbarians, Etnogenesis, Identities, Late Antiquity.
In this article, we discuss the identity issues in relation to the world of Late Antiquity and its subsequent representations. To this end, we start with a discussion of the identities in the late-ancient world, emphasizing the complexity and fluidity that occur in the processes of formation (ethnogenesis) and transformation. Then arises the problem of the terminologies used to represent the ancient people (focusing on the concept of “German”), and how these categories, having a potential to produce representations, create misconceptions of identity about (and between) the ancients.
Disease, War, Identities in a(nother) TV series on the Borgias
Adéla KOŤÁTKOVÁ
Original title: Malaltia, guerra, identitats en una (altra) sèrie de televisió sobre els Borja
Published in War and Disease in Antiquity and the Middle Ages
Keywords: Borgia family, Disease, Historical fiction, Identities, War.
When representing the Borgias, a part of the most recent historical fiction tends to avoid the black legend that has accompanied the surname over the centuries. In this article we review the mechanisms through which a television series presents the family as active protagonists of the transition from the Middle Ages to the modern period, as promoters of the Renaissance, not only with regard to artistic and intellectual interests, but also to the evolution of diseases and therapies or in the management of military conflicts. We also check how the creators of the series project their preconceptions on the ethnolinguistic identities of the characters.
