A fame et impidemia libera nos, Domine! Mortality Crisis in Medieval Europe A fame et impidemia libera nos, Domine!
Mário Jorge da Motta BASTOS
Original title: A fame et impidemia libera nos, Domine! Crises de Mortalidade na Europa Medieval
Published in War and Disease in Antiquity and the Middle Ages
Keywords: Medieval History, Middle Ages, Mortality Crisis, Plague.
In this article, we propose to historicize the intense and, why not say, suffered incidence of the successive impacts produced by the mortality crisis in medieval societies of Western Europe – with special emphasis on those arising from epidemics of bubonic plague and famines –, considering particularly the epidemic cycle initiated by the pandemic that, between 1348 and 1352, afflicted three continents, as well as its incidence in the kingdom of Portugal between the 14th and 16th centuries. We intend to consider its main vectors, evolution, motivations and consequences in the context of a civilization that was experiencing the crisis that determined its decline.
Medieval History in Brazil and in Maranhão in Perspective: Teaching and Research
Adriana ZIERER; Solange Pereira OLIVEIRA
Original title: A História Medieval no Brasil e no Maranhão em perspectiva: ensino e pesquisa
Published in The Medieval Aesthetics
Keywords: 21st century, Annales, Medieval History, School and University, Society, Teaching and Research.
The studies of Medieval History have been consolidating in Maranhão with the expansion of the productions directed to the teaching and academic research in this historiographic field. In this article we present a general approach on the substantial advances of works related to this historical period in the State, seeking to underline the relevance of possible ways for the teaching and research of the Middle Ages in the context of the belief and imaginary of local culture in Maranhão.
Medieval heraldry: a cultural creation for a secular society
Gerard Marí i Brull
Original title: Heráldica medieval: una creación cultural para una sociedad laica
Published in The educacion and secular culture in the Middle Ages
Keywords: Coats of arm, Heraldry, Medieval History.
This paper aims to show how Heraldry is a medieval cultural phenomenon of first importance created and developed outside the ecclesiastical world, through the analysis of three specific aspects: its origins, the language for the heraldic description and the ways of transmission of its knowledge.
