IMC 2010: Sessions
Session 828: Political Metaphors in Late Medieval Spain
Tuesday 13 July 2010, 16.30-18.00
| Sponsor: | Grupo de Investigación Saavedra Fajardo, Universidad de Murcia |
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| Organiser: | Víctor Manuel Egío García, Grupo de Investigación Saavedra Fajardo, Universidad de Murcia / University of Liverpool |
| Moderator/Chair: | Antonio Rivera García, Facultad de Filosofía, Universidad de Murcia |
| Paper 828-a | Without Losing the Head: Corporeality in the Spanish Middle Ages (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - General, Mentalities, Philosophy, Rhetoric |
| Paper 828-b | Where is the Place of the Individual?: Political Tensions in Late Middle Ages (Language: English) Index terms: Mentalities, Philosophy, Political Thought, Rhetoric |
| Paper 828-c | The Spanish Indecision: Conflicting Metaphors in the Political Works of Alonso de Cartagena (Language: English) Index terms: Mentalities, Philosophy, Political Thought, Rhetoric |
| Abstract | Metaphors have always been a recurrent way to approach and even transform political reality. Specially in late medieval Spain, where the practice of power is marked by a permanent indecision, the unresolved conflict between cities and feudal kingship, metaphors were a key tool for theologians, lawyers and rival political actors. Metaphors like the body politic and the public contract sum up, given a consistency between theory and practice that we will still have to discuss, two different political paradigms. They represent a suitable meeting point and current focus for scholars coming from different disciplines such as Aesthetics, Political Thought, and History, working together at the Saavedra Fajardo Research Group since 2002. |