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Helmántica — Tue, 26 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000

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Confusio linguarum and writing

Adriana Noemí Salvador — Tue, 26 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000

For the biblical story of the Tower of Babel (Gn 11,1-9), instead of the Mesopotamian Enūma eliš, other biblical, Egyptian and cuneiform parallels are proposed with certain material characteristics, which do not refer to the differentiation of languages, but to the universal topic of language. The point of convergence is found in the ritual, effective and performative emergence of writing in a liminal context of the periphery that concludes with the literary theme of the poor and marginalized. This is an example of comparative analysis that focuses on the integrated discourse and the relational ontology of ancient societies with their significance for contemporary Western culture from the creation of letters.

The journey of the soul in Christian exegesis

Manuel Andrés Seoane Rodríguez — Tue, 26 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000

The Jews in the Carolingian Empire

Juan Carlos Lara Olmo — Tue, 26 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000

The Carolingian dinasty granted the Jews of its empire a period of prosperity and welfare. Although there is no Jewish document left of that time, laws, Christian chronicles and works of religious polemical content, especially the ones written by Agobard and Amulo of Lyons, allow reconstruct the framework of their life within the Empire. In them it is possible to find ancient Jewish literary traditions from Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages, like Tolĕdot Yešu and Ši‘ur Qomah materials. Such is the aim of this paper.

The Life of John the Almsgiver in the Work of Juan Gil de Zamora (O.F.M.)

Olga Soledad Bohdziewicz — Tue, 26 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000

In this article we present the first edition of the life of John the Almsgiver compiled by the franciscan friar Juan Gil of Zamora in his work titled Historia canonica ac civilis, also known as Liber illustrium personarum. The Latin text is preceded by a short introduction where the itinerary of the Chripriot saint’s life in the latin world and in the Hispano-Latin compilations is given in order to set the context for the text source employed by Juan Gil. Following the Latin text, a Spanish translation is presented.

Emperor Marcus Aurelius, Persecutor of christians?

Narciso Santos Yanguas — Tue, 26 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000

None of the ancient documents that relate this emperor to the Christians (Vita Abercii, Tertullian and the apocryphal letter of Marcus Aurelius to the senate on the episode of the miraculous rain, Meliton of Sardis - collected in Eusebius of Caesarea-, the rescript to the governor of Gallia Lugdunensis and the senatusconsultum de pretiis gladiatoriis minuendis) expressly mentions the issuing by his chancellery of a general edict against the members of his communities; rather, these years seem to be identified with a period of relative calm and tranquillity despite certain upheavals in North Africa or in the case of the martyrs of Lyon.
Driven by his philosophical principles and for reasons of state, Marcus Aurelius could not be a supporter of the Christian religion; but if we have examples of martyrdom (real or hypothetical) during his reign, it was not due to the application of an official and systematic persecution but to the validity of the juridical approach established, more than half a century earlier, by Trajan and confirmed by Hadrian.

Information systems as a tactical-strategic resource during the Bellum Numantinum

Gregorio Carrasco Serrano, David Romero Fernández — Tue, 26 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000

The main objective of the present work is to study the information systems in context of the Bellum Numantinum taking into account the references provided by classical sources for this period. Although the sources, in general, are scarce as for as information or intelligence systems are concerned, there is nevertheless no lack of data on the subject that show their importance for this framework of operations. It is also worth highlighting the high percentage of cases associated with the figure of Scipio Emilianus, which higlights the importance that the sources give to said Roman magistrate and the taking of the capital of the Arevacians. On the other hand, the source that provides the most references for this context to informative uses and data transfer is Appiano, who is the author who accounts for the largest proportion of registered cases.

The horti Lucullani. A political mistake?

Luis Amela Valverde, Lluís Pons Pujol — Tue, 26 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000

When the Roman general and politician L. Licinius Lucullus returned to Rome from the Third Mithridatic War (66 BC) he had to wait until 63 BC to be authorized to celebrate a triumph. He had to wait outside the pomerium, where a luxurious domus with no less luxurious gardens will be built. This act was interpreted in a negative way by his contemporaries since the message was conveyed through literary sources that Lucullus was, besides being the prototype of a philhellenic patrician, an extravagant character, dedicated only to enjoying gastronomy and the most luxurious pleasures. Therefore, the construction of the Horti Lucullani was, in our opinion, a political mistake.

Immaculist tours de force of Lambert Pevée, O.F.M. (1662)

Javier Soage — Tue, 26 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000

This paper offers the first critical edition of three works by Lambert Pevée, O.F.M., along with notes and a Spanish translation. The author, largely unknown, has come down in history thanks to the account of him given by Alba y Astorga in his Militia contra malitiam (Louvain : Typogr. Immaculatae Conceptionis, 1663), col. 899-905. This account has been echoed in Ippolito Marracci's Polyanthea Mariana (Cologne : Peter Ketteler, 1683), append. p. 74b, ‘opus ... lectu omnino dignissimum’; and Juan de San Antonio's Bibliotheca universa franciscana (Madrid : Typogr. Causae V. Matris de Agreda, 1732), vol. 2, p. 269. Juan de San Antonio acknowledges being unaware of any edition other than that in the Militia contra malitiam (‘inter alia quae ad manus meas non devenere’ ... ‘excudit noster Alva’). James Hilton, in the second volume of his chronogrammatic anthology, draws attention to the closing note of Alba y Astorga's epigraph dedicated to Pevée: ‘habemus manuscripta apus nos, in 4º,’ and reasonably infers that the editor may have been the first to put them into print (Hilton 1885 : 497).