Sapientia, 1986, Vol. XLI, nº 161 (número completo)

Contenido: La causa III : los principios de causalidad eficiente y final / Octavio N. Derisi -- El conocimiento trascendental de Dios y la metafísica de la naturaleza / Edgardo Castro -- Aportes para una caracterización del silogismo práctico / Federico Mihura Seeber -- El dinamismo ético-social y la educación del hombre según Aristóteles / Silvana Filippi -- Pintura y significación / Raúl Echauri -- Notas y comentarios -- Bibliografía

Del amor en metro y en prosa : lírica amorosa y ficción sentimental en tiempos de los Reyes Católicos

Integran este número de la revista ponencias presentadas en Studia Hispanica Medievalia VIII: Actas de las IX Jornadas Internacionales de Literatura Española Medieval, 2008, y de Homenaje al Quinto Centenario de Amadis de Gaula.

La comunicación de la verdad global a la persona con una enfermedad incurable: qué, cómo y por qué decirlo

Resumen: El encuentro de salud se da entre un ser humano doliente, que busca ayuda, y otro con capacidad técnica, que está en disposición de prestársela. La calidad de la comunicación influye en el paciente afectando la mejor comprensión de los problemas, en la adherencia terapéutica y en los resultados. Finalmente, es una herramienta básica para expresar en la práctica asistencial la información global al paciente, adaptando los conocimientos sanitarios a las características y contexto de cada uno. En la relación asistencial es tanto o más importante que lo que se dice el modo y la ocasión en que se dice. Sólo de esta forma el profesional de la salud estará preparado para comunicar una verdad global.

A possible alchemist apparatus from the early islamic period excavated at Ramla, Israel

Abstract: During extensive salvage excavations carried out during the years 2004-2008 in a large Early Islamic industrial area at the vicinities of Ramla, in Central Israel, an unparalleled industrial device was unearthed. The star-shaped, soil embedded installation, whose lower part was preserved, consisted of a central pottery jar surrounded by five minor jars, linked by ceramic pipes. Evidence of heat was observed mainly around the central vessel, and metal hollow cones perforated in the tip were found inside the surrounding jars. Although the manufacturing procedures and operation techniques of the installation are not completely clear, it is proposed that the installation is part of an industrial workshop or an alchemy laboratory. Both industry and alchemy were well-developed during the Early Islamic period and very often closely related, to the point that sometimes it is difficult to distinguish between them. The identification proposed is based on comparisons with tools described in literary sources, and somewhat later drawings and etchings. Circumstantial ceramic evidence was found, as well as the proximity of a bathhouse whose guests could have been the consumers of perfumes and unguents seem to reinforce this possibility. Due to the poor state of preservation of the device and the lack of available comparisons, the identification proposed here is tentative, and future research coupled with eventual new discoveries is needed in order to clarify this matter.

Poner el cuerpo. Mujeres y política estatal en Mari (Siglo XVIII a.c.)

Women and men are subjects defined both by their physical-natural reality and their socio-cultural environment. In this way they are reified, and many such examples can be found throughout history. We are interested in the situation of women in Ancient Mesopotamia, particularly the daughters of Zimrî-Lîm, king of the city of Mari, the archaeological site of Tell Hariri, modern Syria, during the 18th century BC. Zimrî- Lîm made marriages a policy of the state. He himself married foreign women and married their joint daughters to other important kings as well. This marital policy was another, more extended, way of dominion where women were a nexus between Mari and other states. In this paper, we will analyze the roles which were assigned and developed by royal women from a political level via a comprehensive approach. These women are presented generally as political objects, though, in extreme cases also they were taking forward actions as subjects and by it they were visualized as “the other,” the foreigner and, in some cases, the enemy.