The contents of the Second Book of Convivio (c.1304-1307) from Dante and discuss the philosophical foundations of his analogy between seven Liberal Arts and seven planets.
The aesthetic ideas of Umberto Eco (1932-2016) in his book Art and Beauty in the Middle Ages (1987), particularly the aesthetic sensibilities and interests of medieval themes in the metaphysics of light (claritas), the symbolism and the Allegory, and the aesthetic vision of the Universe.
The Dream (Lo somni) of Bernat Metge (1340-1413) is one of the classical works of the fifteenth century. The purpose is to present the evidences presented by Metge for the immortality of the soul, important meditation to Medieval Philosophy.
As the Middle Ages acquired new delicate body expressions in Art with Gothic, the artists felt more at ease to experience new gestures of the human body. For that, Christ continued to be the aesthetic reference. The theme of the Descent from the Cross served as the basis for this bodily experimentalism. Our proposal is to ascertain the different nuances of these new expressions between 14th and 15th centuries.
The concept of Science in the Middle Ages, particularly in Isidore of Seville, Hugh of St. Victor, Bernard of Clairvaux, Thomas Aquinas and Ramon Llull.
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