Vida Y Obra De Ramon Llull

This book attempts to explain the functioning of the combinatorial, semi-mechanical demonstrative techniques of Ramon Llull's 'Art', how it began as an apologetic instrument, how it developed through two main stages, and how it ended trying to reformulate key aspects of medieval Aristotelian logic.

Modern histories of medieval culture often assert without qualification that the oral exercise of public eloquence during the European Middle Ages was limited to preaching by the clergy. The classical art of rhetoric supposedly survived only as a written subject for study in the schools. During the past thirty years, however, knowledge of medieval rhetorical theory and practice has grown tremendously. Historians and philologians have devoted particular attention to the relationship between oral and written communication in medieval Europe. Their investigations are beginning to suggest -- not surprisingly -- that interest in eloquence was not confined to the schools or clergy. Secular officials arguing in princely courts or town halls, and laypeople seeking to develop their learning or piety also cultivated an interest in rhetoric. Given the paucity of testimony available, the New Rhetoric of the Mallorcan lay theologian and philosopher Ramon Llull (1232-1316) offers an exceptional witness to the non-academic and non-clerical concern for eloquence. His proposals for new Christian arts of communication are among the best evidence available for assessing the diffusion of rhetorical doctrines from the cloisters and schools into the courts, town halls, and private chapels of Western Europe around 1300. Growing interest in Llull's work and in medieval rhetoric have combined to produce this first published edition. The first part on order shows how Llull's entire program attempts to correlate ethical, metaphysical, and linguistic categories into a single system of Anselmian "rightness." The next section on beauty could almost form a complete art of preaching in itself, thanks to the brief compilations of sermon material that it includes. The broad range of discursive elements and techniques in which Llull seeks verbal beauty makes this section very eclectic in scope. Part three on knowledge attempts to explain the diffusion of right linguistic and rhetorical doctrine almost exclusively through the Divine Dignities and other categories of the Great Art. The final section on love consists of ten proverbs regarding loving speech, each explicated with an appropriate exemplum.

Ramon LLull (1232-1316) was born the son of a prosperous Catalan merchant and spent his youth pursuing worldly pursuits, until a series of powerful visions of Christ moved him to devote his life entirely to serving God.

A Companion to Ramon Llull and Lullism offers a comprehensive survey of the work of the Majorcan lay theologian and philosopher Ramon Llull (1232-1316) and of its influence in late medieval, Renaissance, and early modern Europe, as well as in the Spanish colonies of the New World. Llull’s unique system of philosophy and theology, the “Great Universal Art,” was widely studied and admired from the fifteenth through the eighteenth centuries. His evangelizing ideals and methods inspired centuries of Christian missionaries. His many writings in Catalan, his native vernacular, remain major monuments in the literary history of Catalonia. Contributors are: Roberta Albrecht, José Aragüés Aldaz, Linda Báez Rubí, Josep Batalla, Pamela Beattie, Henry Berlin, John Dagenais, Mary Franklin-Brown, Alexander Ibarz, Annemarie C. Mayer, Rafael Ramis Barceló, Josep E. Rubio, and Gregory B. Stone.

As one of America’s most important missionaries, Junípero Serra is widely recognized as the founding father of California’s missions. It was for that work that he was canonized in 2015 by Pope Francis. Less well known, however, is the degree to which Junípero Serra embodied the social, religious and artistic currents that shaped Spain and Mexico across the 18th century. Further, Serra’s reception in American culture in the 19th and 20th centuries has often been obscured by the controversies surrounding his treatment of California’s Indians. This volume situates Serra in the larger Spanish and Mexican contexts within which he lived, learned, and came of age. Offering a rare glimpse into Serra’s life, these essays capture the full complexity of cultural trends and developments that paved the way for this powerful missionary to become not only California’s most polarizing historical figure but also North America’s first Spanish colonial saint.

The Vita coaetanea (A Contemporary Life) is an autobiographical account of Ramon Llull’s life dictated by himself to a friend in 1311 when he was seventy-nine years old. In it Llull reviews his works in the context of a life dedicated to God and motivated by the desire to disseminate the message of the Christian faith among the infidels. Llull, the self-labeled troubadour of books, wrote this account in part as a self-justification of his life and work, in part as self-consolation for his unending toils and travails. It is very likely that he also had in mind the Council of Vienne (1311) which he was about to attend and where he submitted petitions dealing with the establishment of adequate places to study languages for the preaching of the Gospel to every creature and the founding of a Christian military religious order that waged permanent war against the Saracens until the Holy Land is reconquered. Llull wanted to frame these petitions within a well thought-out justificatory account of his life and works that exudes passion, commitment and love for his fellow man. This volume contains the Latin original, as well as translations into Catalan, Spanish, and English.

Ramon LLull (1232-1316) was born the son of a prosperous Catalan merchant and spent his youth pursuing worldly pursuits, until a series of powerful visions of Christ moved him to devote his life entirely to serving God.

La ingeniería ha transformado el mundo durante siglos, por iniciativa de la sociedad o con su anuencia tácita. Sus creaciones han sido la clave para resolver innumerables problemas y cubrir múltiples necesidades de la humanidad, pero sus obras también suelen tener repercusiones negativas -casi siempre diferidas y a veces imprevistas- sobre el entorno natural y social. La obra está dirigida a los interesados en que esta creativa profesión continúe con el propósito de satisfacer nuestras necesidades y que las repercusiones negativas sean cada vez menores. En este sentido es que el autor busca contribuir a que los lectores dispongan de la información suficiente sobre cómo opera esta profesión.

"Llull es el mayor escritor catalán de todos los tiempos, quizá el único a quien convenga plenamente el calificativo de genio, ése que reservamos para las grandes ocasiones, no más de uno por lengua." Pere Gimferrer Ramon Llull, de quien 2016 marca el séptimo centenario de su muerte, fue escritor, filósofo, místico, misionero, teólogo autodidacta y viajero y aventurero incansable. Su obra, una de las más fecundas y polifacéticas de toda la Edad Media europea, fue escrita en latín, en catalán y en árabe. El libro de Domínguez Reboiras, uno de nuestros grandes expertos de la obra luliana, acerca al lector actual, con maestría y profundidad, a la vida y al pensamiento —tan azaroso, apasionado y apasionante el uno como la otra— del "gran filósofo de la diferencia", en acertada expresión de Vladimir Jankélévitch. Personaje excepcional, tanto por los avatares de su biografía como por la complejidad y ambición de su trabajo intelectual —no en vano deseaba escribir "el mejor libro del mundo", su Ars magna et generalis—, el mallorquín se nos muestra en estas páginas como un hombre de ideas fecundas, innovadoras y, asimismo, muchas de ellas cercanas al lector de hoy. Prueba de ello su insobornable celebración de la alegría de vivir, de la amistad y del amor, su acérrima defensa del diálogo entre religiones y del uso de la Razón para sustentar con fuerza imbatible la fe de los hombres en Dios.