Persecution perpetuated: The medieval origins of anti-semitic violence in Nazi Germany

How persistent are cultural traits? This paper uses data on anti-Semitism in Germany and finds continuity at the local level over more than half a millennium. When the Black Death hit Europe in 1348-50, killing between one third and one half of the population, its cause was unknown. Many contemporaries blamed the Jews. Cities all over Germany witnessed mass killings of their Jewish population. At the same time, numerous Jewish communities were spared these horrors. We use plague pogroms as an indicator for medieval anti-Semitism. Pogroms during the Black Death are a strong and robust predictor of violence against Jews in the 1920s, and of votes for the Nazi Party. In addition, cities that saw medieval anti-Semitic violence also had higher deportation rates for Jews after 1933, were more likely to see synagogues damaged or destroyed in the Night of Broken Glass in 1938, and their inhabitants wrote more anti-Jewish letters to the editor of the Nazi newspaper Der Stürmer.

La construcció de la muralla medieval del Mercadal en el darrer terç del segle XIV

Descripció de la muralla medieval del segle XIV del Mercadal a la ciutat de Girona

Body, Disease and Treatment in a Changing World. Latin texts and contexts in ancient and medieval medicine (Proceedings of the ninth International Conference «Ancient Latin Medical Texts», Hulme Hall, University of Manchester, 5th-8th September 2007),

This volume reflects a variegated and fruitful dialogue between classical and medieval philologists and historians of science, philosophy, literature and language as well as of medicine - the diverse range of interests that the history of medicine in the Graeco-Roman world and the medieval West continues to stimulate and draw on. A recurrent theme is the transformation of medical knowledge in different languages, literary forms and cultural milieux. Several papers concern editorial work in progress on unpublished texts, available only in manuscript or early printed editions. Ce recueil met en dialogue des spécialistes des textes médicaux latins de l'Antiquité et du Moyen Âge. Certaines analyses adoptent une approche sociolinguistique, d'autres s'intéressent à des questions de transmission et de réception, d'autres enfin livrent des études sur le lexique médical. Mais toutes concourent à éclairer une histoire culturelle de la médecine qui s'inscrit dans un monde en mutation. With a preface by D. R. Langslow, and contributions by M. Baldin, J. P. Barragán Nieto, P. P. Conde Parrado, D. Crismani, M. Cronier, C. de la Rosa Cubo, A. Ferraces Rodríguez, K.-D. Fischer, P. Gaillard-Seux, A. García González, V. Gitton-Ripoll, G. Haverling, F. Le Blay, B. Maire, G. Marasco, A. I. Martín Ferreira, I. Mazzini, F. Messina, Ph. Mudry, V. Nutton, M. Pardon-Labonnelie, R. Passarella, M. J. Pérez Ibáñez, S. Sconocchia, A. M. Urso, M. E. Vázquez Buján, and H. von Staden.

La caverna de Josep Palau i Fabre (1952-1969): teatro versus alegoría filosófica para representar e impedir el final trágico y sombrío del luminoso arte de pensar.

What is the use of performing the myth of the cave from book VII of the Republic by Plato? Josep Palau i Fabre, considers that, in Plato's dialogues, the speakers are mere instruments at the service of his dialectical goal. The aim of this article is to show how, by turning the myth into a tragedy and also by relying on Heraclitus's conflict or war of opposites, the playwright succeeds in favoring a sort of thought which is not one-sided or univocal. On the contrary, in Palau i Fabre's La Caverna, the tragic hero, that is, the released prisoner transformed by the light of Reality and finally killed by his "cavemates" -after having been imprisoned again and having tried to rescue them from their ignorance or shadows-, still leaves to them his powerful experience of the agonistikos thought, which might bear fruit in their life to come.

Jeanne Hersch y la fiesta como obra de arte

Este artículo reflexiona sobre el significado que Jeanne Hersch concede a las fiestas y al valor de celebrarlas, como elemento propiciatorio de orden, en el que cada cual desarrolla su función y encuentra su propio lugar. Como sea que Hersch concibe la fiesta como "una obra de arte cuya materia es un fragmento limitado de tiempo", se ha prestado particular atención a la perspectiva estética de esta pensadora.

El donante aprendiz de mago en las Epifanías medievales. Algunas acotaciones en contextos artísticos hispánicos y europeos.

Son numerosas las representaciones del donante que hallan un punto de referencia en la Adoración de los reyes de Oriente. Por este camino es lícito interpretar algunas de las imágenes del arte de época medieval y moderna que hacen comparecer al donante ante la Virgen y el Niño como renovadas epifanías (o nuevas epifanías). Su sentido puede apoyarse en un notorio elenco de textos medievales que revelan la existencia de contenidos similares o análogos entre distintos tipos de escenas. Este trabajo recopila y revisa sobre todo aquellas obras que, al situar al donante arrodillado o en oración junto a los reyes de la Epifanía histórica, mejor evidencian su conversión en aprendiz de rey mago.

Formação inicial e permanente do professor de arte na educação básica

Este trabalho expõe uma pesquisa descritiva realizada em 1998 com professores de Educação Artística que atuam na educação básica do município de Feira de Santana, na Bahia. Conhecer esses professores e a sua prática cotidiana foram os objetivos propostos por esta pesquisa. Por meio de formulários com itens abertos e fechados, levantaram-se dados sobre a formação, tanto inicial quanto permanente, suas condições e concepções de trabalho. Evidenciaram-se a falta de formação específica dos profissionais, as precárias condições de carreira e trabalho bem como ambigüidades apresentadas nas concepções de arte analisadas. O trabalho discute também a formação permanente desse professor como ação cultural a fim de se democratizar o acesso à arte.