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Supernatural Visitation in Medieval Literature

Lipson, JoelUniversity of Cambridge2022

… primarily upon romances, histories, exempla, mirabilia, hagiographies, magical grimoires and comic fabliaux composed between the twelfth and fifteenth centuries, this thesis argues that medieval Visitation episodes are intimately concerned with notions of human agency. Medieval authors, by …

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Las Siete Maravillas de la Antigüedad. Humanismo, transmisión cultural e influencias artísticas.

de Miguel Irureta, Ainhoa2021

… maravilla deriva etimológicamente del latín mirabilia, que a su vez procede del verbo mirari –admirar– y del adjetivo mirus, como algo extraordinario, sorprendente y hermoso. En la filosofía de Platón encontramos el término “arquetipo” o “modelo”, que va ligado a la idea de maravilla pues, …

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MATTER(S) OF IMMORTALITY: OIL PAINTINGS ON STONE AND METAL IN THE SIXTEENTH AND SEVENTEENTH CENTURIES

Cavallo, BradleyTemple University. Libraries2017

… other as demonstrations of marvelous things (mirabilia). Certainly small-scale paintings on stone or metal exhibited amidst these kinds of rarities aided in aggrandizing a noble or bourgeois collector’s social prestige. As well, they might have derived their interest as collectables because of …

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Wonders of the East : a synoptic edition of the Letter of Pharasmanes and the Old English and Old Picard translations.

Knock, Ann Elizabeth1981

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