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This article highlights some of the challenges the nascent Florentine territorial state faced in the second half of the fourteenth century, after it was visited with the Great Plague of 1348. When mercenaries began to cross the territory, and the ruling class found itself unable to handle this kind of emergency, the exurban population turned to forms of self-defence. These initiatives resemble the coeval ones undertaken by the Tuchins in Normandy or those in Languedoc and southern Piedmont. ; p. 141-156 ; 23 cm ; This article highlights some of the challenges the nascent Florentine territorial state faced in the second half of the fourteenth century, after it was visited with the Great Plague of 1348. When mercenaries began to cross the territory, and the ruling class found itself unable to handle this kind of emergency, the exurban population turned to forms of self-defence. These initiatives resemble the coeval ones undertaken by the Tuchins in Normandy or those in Languedoc and southern Piedmont. ; s. 141-156 ; 23 cm

"The anthology "Kulturen verbinden – Connecting Cultures – Сближая культуры" celebrates the 50th anniversary of Slavonic studies at the Leopold-Franzens University Innsbruck. The individual contributions examine in different ways interrelations and mutual influences of languages, literatures, and cultures. The topics range from the early Middle Ages to the present and cover the East, South and West Slavonic regions as well as contact phenomena in Western countries. On the whole, this volume demonstrates that it is the essential achievement of a philological discipline such as Slavonic studies to bring cultures into communication with each other and to explore cultural interconnections.
Der Sammelband Kulturen verbinden – Connecting Cultures – Сближая культуры verdankt sein Zustandekommen dem 50-jährigen Bestehen der Slawistik an der Leopold-Franzens-Universität Innsbruck. Die einzelnen Beiträge untersuchen in unterschiedlicher Weise, wie Sprachen, Literaturen und Kulturen mit einander in Verbindung stehen und sich wechselseitig beeinflussen. Die behandelten Themen reichen vom frühen Mittelalter bis in die Gegenwart, wobei der ost-, süd- und westslawische Raum ebenso erfasst wird wie Kontaktphänomene in westlichen Ländern. Insgesamt unterstreichen die Autorinnen und Autoren, dass die wesentliche Leistung einer philologischen Disziplin wie der Slawistik darin besteht, Kulturen miteinander ins Gespräch zu bringen und kulturelle Verflechtungen zu erforschen."

In her well-known piece on Walter Benjamin, Hannah Arendt wrote that "posthumous fame… seems to be the lot of the unclassifiable ones." It is achieved by "those whose work neither fits the existing order nor introduces a new genre that lends itself to future classification." If she is right, then there may be some hope that Richard McKeon will one day have his moment. For McKeon (who was, in fact, a friend of Arendt) is eminently unclassifiable. Born in 1900, he studied philosophy both with the great French medievalist Étienne Gilson and with John Dewey. He was a twentieth-century American pragmatist who sought to revolutionize philosophy so that it could deal with the novel challenges of a technological age. Yet he was also a brilliant scholar of classical and medieval thought, who wrote such articles as "Poetry and Philosophy in the Twelfth Century," "Rhetoric in the Middle Ages," and "The Hellenistic and Roman Foundations of the Tradition of Aristotle in the West."

La construcción de la imagen arquetípica del rey castellano comporta la conjugación de un conjunto de símbolos del poder real que durante la Edad Media van siendo incorporados como manifestaciones propias del lugar de gravedad político-social que va alcanzando la monarquía frente al conjunto de grupos y clases privilegiadas del reino. Este trabajo intenta resaltar algunos de estos elementos que permiten la concreción simbólica de la imagen del rey tanto en la construcción discursiva como en la iconografía que le acompaña. ; The construction of the archetypal image of the Castilian king implies the combination of a set of symbols of royal power during the Middle Ages are being incorporated place as their own manifestations of political-social gravity is reaching the monarchy front of the set of groups and classes privileged kingdom. This paper attempts to highlight some of these elements that involve the symbolic realization of the king's image both in the discursive construction and iconography that accompanies it.

There is no government without laws and, for that reason, the towns have endowed ordinances for themselves as well as for their guilds. An ordinance is, for the municipal context, the embodiment of its administrative law. For the guilds, it is the very foundation of their organization. In both cases, ordinances had to be approved by the Royal Council. Their birth took place in the middle ages and went on until the 19th century. All of them reflect the predominant economic activity in the region. ; No hay gobierno sin leyes y, por tal razón, los pueblos se han dotado de ordenanzas tanto para ellos mismos como para los gremios. Una ordenanza es, en el ámbito municipal, la plasmación de su derecho administrativo. En los gremios, fundamento de su organización. En ambos casos debían ser aprobadas por el Consejo Real. Su nacimiento tuvo lugar en plena Edad Media y llegó hasta el siglo XIX. Todas reflejan la actividad económica predominante en la región.

Partiendo de la configuración cultural de la Edad Media, y del pensamiento político de Ortega y Gasset se analiza el proceso federalista de Estados Unidos, de algunos países de Oriente y especialmente de la Unión Europea. El federalismo estuvo presente en la idea de Europa de Jean Monnet y Robert Schuman y ha recibido un especial impulso en el proceso de integración, tras las últimas elecciones europeas. El modelo federal es defendido por importantes referentes políticos como solución para el conflicto árabe israelí. ; Based on the cultural configuration of the Middle Ages, and political thought of Ortega y Gasset, the process Federalist United States, some countries in East and especially the European Union is analyzed. Federalism was present at the idea of Europe of Jean Monnet and Robert Schuman and received a special boost in the integration process of the EU, after the last European elections. The federal model is defended by major political figures as a solution to the Arab-Israeli conflict.

AbstractThis article introduces the role of medievalisms in British and Anglophone children's fantasy literature since the 1950s, focusing on how these texts impact the development of national identity. Children's fantasy literature often contributes to a nationalistic tradition of nostalgia for the Middle Ages, glorifying and reproducing that period for contemporary readers by including medieval narratives and what Clare A. Simmons calls 'perceived codes of values', as well as the customary medievalised trappings: castles, knights, magicians, etc. However, in the face of globalisation, recent fantasy has begun to reflect changes in the British experience of itself and the outside world. The explosive popularity of J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter novels and the subsequent rise of other new fantasy for children have placed these new forms of medievalism on a global stage through wide translation, spin‐off media and merchandise. This article is especially concerned with how these texts balance questions of racial and spatial relationships to establish insider identity for their young readers.