Alcuin of York: About the Soul and its Dignitates
Rubén A. Peretó Rivas
Original title: Alcuino de York: Sobre el Alma y sus Dignidades
Published in Mirabilia 4
Keywords: Memory, faculties, intellect, will.
The subject of this paper is the “dignities” or soul's faculties in the Alcuin's work. First, the author settles the notion of dignitates as Alcuin understands it in all his anthropologic treatises. Then, analyzes this concept in the most importants works where the Charlemagne's friend writes about the dignitates of intellect, memory and will, studying particularly the hierarchy, function and disposition of each according to the work where they appear.
Images of nobility in life and works of Meister Eckhart
Matteo RASCHIETTI
Original title: As imagens da nobreza na vida e nas obras de Mestre Eckhart
Published in Aristocracy and nobility in the Ancient and Medieval World
Keywords: Eckhart, Nobility, deep of soul, intellect, soul.
Noble as provenance, dominicam master’s life had a plebeian destiny when he was condemned for heresy post mortem. In despite of this, his disciples setted on fire the flame of true nobilty indicated by Eckhart, that is peculiar of soul, intellect and human being free and detached of all images, inclusively of God’s image. Only when human being will recognise His presence in the deep of soul, finding the similarity with Him in the dissimilarity of himself and of all creatures, will be possible to experiment the true nobilty and the end of alterity between deus absconditus and His masterpiece of creation.
Meister Eckhart and the Paradisus anime intelligentis
Matteo RASCHIETTI
Original title: Meister Eckhart e o Paradisus anime intelligentis
Published in Paradise, Purgatory and Hell: the Religiosity in the Middle Ages
Keywords: Being, Eckhart, Paradisus, Return to One, intellect.
The Dominican master doesn't talk about Paradise in his works like a place in the future, because his point of view is not eschatological. In fact, for him there's no a way toward a future happiness, but a return to the origin. In Paradisus anime intelligentis, Eckhart defends the superiority of intellectus and God Himself is defined like it, while the esse (being) reports himself almost exclusively to creatures. The man, to realize his deep calling to be unum with God, has to come back to Him.
