[Textes et Etudes du Moyen Âge] Secrets and Discovery in the Middle Ages Volume 90 (Proceedings of the 5th European Congress of the Fédération Internationale des Instituts d’Études Médiévales (Porto, 24 to 29 June 2013)) ||

FIDEM’s 5 th European Congress of Medieval Studies took place in Porto, Portugal, from 25 th to 29 th June 2013 under the title Secrets and Discovery in the Midle Ages. The Congress set out to discuss the presence and importance of secrets in the spheres of imagination, culture, thinking, sciences, politics, religion, and everyday life during the Middle Ages (from the onset of the 6 th to the midle of the 16 th century). The Congress was designed to promote discussion on secrets and discovery in all the domains of Medieval Studies, in any medieval language, and in a wide array of subjects: Confession and Intimacy; Conspiracy and Betrayal; Government and Diplomacy; Health and Life; Hermeticism and Transmutation; Holiness and Relics; Knowledge and Scepticism; Mysticisms and Kabbalah; Nature and the Supernatural; Past and Future; Planets and Harmony; Prophecy and Divination; Sermons and Preaching; Symbols and Dreams; Truth and Fakes; Unknown Worlds and Lost Places; Warfare and Strategy. In the tradition of FIDEM’s meetings, the Congress enjoyed a very high attendance, with addresses delivered on all these domains, of which the present volume includes only a part submitted to and selected by a specialised committee Front Matter ("Table of Contents", "Preface", "Scientific Reading Committee of the Proceedings and Congress Committees"), p. i Free Access Plenary Lectures Theories of Prophecy and the Faculties of the Soul in Medieval Islamic Philosophy, p. 3 Catarina Belo https://doi.org/10.1484/M.TEMA-EB.4.2018041 Heretics Doing Things Secretly, p. 15 Peter Biller https://doi.org/10.1484/M.TEMA-EB.4.2018042 Non sine mysterio. Percevoir et exprimer le secret des desseins de Dieu, p. 27 Pascale Bourgain https://doi.org/10.1484/M.TEMA-EB.4.2018043 El descubrimiento de una falsedad: el De stomacho de Constantino el Africano y su fuente árabe, p. 41 Enrique Montero Cartelle, María de la Concepción Vázquez de Benito https://doi.org/10.1484/M.TEMA-EB.4.2018044 Section Papers Nature and Knowledge La découverte démonstrative des secrets au moyen de l’Ars inventiva de Raymond Lulle, p. 63 Constantin Teleanu https://doi.org/10.1484/M.TEMA-EB.4.2018045 Conocimiento y vida en una lápida hispanohebrea medieval, p. 83 Isabel Mata https://doi.org/10.1484/M.TEMA-EB.4.2018046 Prophecy and Eschatology Profetismo moçárabe e/ou ideologia prospetiva neo-goda (sécs.VIII-XI), p. 101 António Rei https://doi.org/10.1484/M.TEMA-EB.4.2018047 Profecías de Muerte en la Grecia Medieval: elementos para la identificación de una escuela hagiográfica, p. 113 Oscar Prieto Domínguez https://doi.org/10.1484/M.TEMA-EB.4.2018048 Prophecy and Divination in the Portuguese Royal Court, p. 127 Helena Avelar de Carvalho https://doi.org/10.1484/M.TEMA-EB.4.2018049 Relics and Secrecy Secretos a voces: teatralidad y escenografía de las reliquias en el Decamerón y los Cuentos de Canterbury, p. 141 Susana Gala Pellicer https://doi.org/10.1484/M.TEMA-EB.4.2018050 La Sagrada Lanza: un dilema milenario entre la fe y la historia, p. 155 María Isabel Cabrera Ramos https://doi.org/10.1484/M.TEMA-EB.4.2018051 El emperador Heraclio, el verdadero Monte Ararat y las reliquias de Noé, p. 167 José Soto Chica https://doi.org/10.1484/M.TEMA-EB.4.2018052 Secrets of the Religious Life Las visiones de Suero: la leyenda fundacional del monasterio de Corias, p. 175 Alfonso García Leal https://doi.org/10.1484/M.TEMA-EB.4.2018053 Um segredo mal guardado? O papel das sargentes na vida dos beneficiados de Santa Justa de Coimbra (séculos XIV e XV), p. 187 Maria Amélia Álvaro de Campos https://doi.org/10.1484/M.TEMA-EB.4.2018054 Nel segreto del chiostro: spunti di vita quotidiana in un monastero femminile nella Napoli tardo medievale, p. 199 Ciro Romano https://doi.org/10.1484/M.TEMA-EB.4.2018055 Government and Diplomacy Segreti a Venezia nell’Alto Medioevo. La visita di Ottone III e il «codice segreto» della «Istoria Veneticorum» di Giovanni Diacono, p. 213 Luigi Andrea Berto https://doi.org/10.1484/M.TEMA-EB.4.2018056 From Secrecy to Oblivion and from Discovery to Loss: What is Left of the Renowned «Pacto Sucessório»?, p. 223 Abel Estefânio https://doi.org/10.1484/M.TEMA-EB.4.2018057 What Exactly is the forum confessionis? Secrecy and Scandal in Church Governance (12th-14th centuries), p. 237 Arnaud Fossier https://doi.org/10.1484/M.TEMA-EB.4.2018058 Sex, Lies, and Visitations: Secrets and Discovery in the Registers of John Waltham and John Chandler, p. 247 James Plumtree https://doi.org/10.1484/M.TEMA-EB.4.2018059 Woman’s Secrets Verentur enim narrare mulieres: Female Disease as a Cause of Embarrassment, p. 261 Sara Segovia Esteban https://doi.org/10.1484/M.TEMA-EB.4.2018060 «Mulierem ornat silentium». El secreto y la instrucción de las mujeres en algunos tratados medievales, p. 269 Dulce María González Doreste, Francisca del Mar Plaza Picón https://doi.org/10.1484/M.TEMA-EB.4.2018061 Medieval Arts Dominus Exercituum. Apotropaic Guardians at the Thresholds of Portuguese Churches of the Romanesque Period, p. 285 Maria Leonor Botelho https://doi.org/10.1484/M.TEMA-EB.4.2018062 A Morte e o Além – a incerteza do destino da alma na arte funerária medieval, p. 297 Marta Miriam Ramos Dias https://doi.org/10.1484/M.TEMA-EB.4.2018063 Unknown Worlds and Travel Literature La leyenda artúrica, Bizancio y el comercio alejandrino: una relación desconocida, p. 311 Maila García-Amorós https://doi.org/10.1484/M.TEMA-EB.4.2018064 The Secrets of Terrestrial Paradise on Medieval Iconography, p. 319 Thomas Horst https://doi.org/10.1484/M.TEMA-EB.4.2018065 Axūm, el Reino del Preste Juan: entre el Cristianismo y el Islam, p. 337 Carlos Martínez Carrasco https://doi.org/10.1484/M.TEMA-EB.4.2018066 Literary Secrets O segredo e a queda do mundo arturiano, p. 351 Eduarda Rabaçal https://doi.org/10.1484/M.TEMA-EB.4.2018067 Le silence de Grisélidis dans Le Mesnagier de Paris, p. 361 Sofía Balibrea González https://doi.org/10.1484/M.TEMA-EB.4.2018068 Segredo e descoberta na poesia galego-portuguesa e no Amadis de Gaula, p. 371 Carla Sofia dos Santos Correia https://doi.org/10.1484/M.TEMA-EB.4.2018069 Philology and Texts’ Transmission El proceso legal contra la falsificación de documentos en la Cataluña altomedieval: el obispado de Elna contra Ermel·la (año 1000), p. 381 Mercè Puig Rodríguez-Escalona, M.a Antonia Fornés Pallicer https://doi.org/10.1484/M.TEMA-EB.4.2018070 Vicios ocultos y virtudes públicas. Lo que se esconde detrás de la documentación latina medieval catalana, p. 391 Pere J. Quetglas, Ana Gómez Rabal https://doi.org/10.1484/M.TEMA-EB.4.2018071 Fuentes ocultas en el manuscrito 981 de la Abadía de Montserrat, p. 401 Marta Cruz Trujillo https://doi.org/10.1484/M.TEMA-EB.4.2018072 Un florilegio bíblico junto a las Auctoritates Aristotelis en el manuscrito BNE 3057, p. 415 Antonio Espigares Pinilla https://doi.org/10.1484/M.TEMA-EB.4.2018073 Discovering the Classics El (re)descubrimiento de la figura de Ovidio en la Edad Media, p. 431 Cristina Martín Puente, José Ignacio Andújar Cantón https://doi.org/10.1484/M.TEMA-EB.4.2018074 Ovidio en el Medievo hispánico: un nuevo y completo manuscrito del Bursario y de una de las cartas originales (Madreselva a Mauseol) de Juan Rodríguez del Padrón, p. 445 Pilar Saquero Suárez-Somonte https://doi.org/10.1484/M.TEMA-EB.4.2018075 Humanistas y descubrimientos de códices clásicos: la dimensión épica, p. 453 Susanna Allés Torrent https://doi.org/10.1484/M.TEMA-EB.4.2018076 Back Matter ("Index"), p. 467 Fascination with secrets traverses the Middle Ages. A secret is shared by few and coveted by many, requiring a lot of those who have to keep it, or those who want to disclose it. A secret is power, hence the eagerness to discover it. But as curiosity can lead to the abyss and punishment, discovering secrets also requires prudence and caution.00The relationship between secret and discovery expresses itself in the Middle Ages, as in all times, through many other dynamic dualities: mystery and revelation, arcane and evidence, unknown and sought, ignorance and knowledge, esoteric and exoteric, private message and edict, hidden and manifest, conspiracy and complaint. The secret is in the nature, which does everything to hide itself, while he reveals itself in many ways, but only to those who know how to interpret it. So in the Middle Ages there are sciences for all secrets: of God, of elements and things, of the stars, of physiognomy, of women, of happiness, of the delights of paradise, of relics, of holiness, of the inner life, of sin, of power, of distant peoples and lost places, and of countless other things. The secret is itself a big secret. The secret is everywhere, in the narratives of search and discovery, in public or private action, in sciences, in books or encyclopedias. One of the most popular medieval texts, the Secretum secretorum, which collects the secrets of health, politics, nature, astrology, magic, alchemy, becomes a model for the many of the literary works composed to uncover secrets, that thus, paradoxically, cease to be. The secret holds dangerous and valuable knowledge ranging from counterfeiting, to the illusions of the imagination, or the triumph of reason and wisdom. The secret and its avatars were a silent yet strong driving force in almost all aspects of the Middle Ages. "The Congress was designed to promote discussion on secrets and discovery in all the domains of Medieval Studies, in any medieval language, and in a wide array of subjects: Confession and Intimacy; Conspiracy and Betrayal; Govern ment and Diplomacy; Health and Life; Hermeticism and Transmutation; Holiness and Relics; Knowledge and Scepticism; Mysticisms and Kabbalah; Nature and the Supernatural; Past and Future; Planets and Harmony; Prophecy and Divination; Sermons and Preaching; Symbols and Dreams; Truth and Fakes; Unknown Worlds and Lost Places; Warfare and Strategy."-- Back cover