Papers by Anna Serra
Butlletin Hispanique, 2018
This paper analyses the book “Puerta de la luz”(1629), by the Carmelite Agustín Núñez Delgadillo ... more This paper analyses the book “Puerta de la luz”(1629), by the Carmelite Agustín Núñez Delgadillo (1570-1631) from the point of view of its religious, Lullist and Kabbalist content. We present a contextualization and analysis of the work, with the exposition of eight alphabets, their combinations, litanies and deprecations, within the frame of Carmelite pedagogy, a deep influence of Lullian methods and mnemotechnic of the baroque Rhetoric.
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Imago. Revista de Emblemática y Cultura Visual, 8 (2016), 124-130
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Viator. Medieval and Renaissance Studies., Apr 2017
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This paper aims to develop a theory of image based on the Mirror of Simple Souls by the... more Abstract
This paper aims to develop a theory of image based on the Mirror of Simple Souls by the French beguine Marguerite dicta Porete (ca. 1260-1310) and the poems and commentaries by the Spanish Carmelite John of the Cross (1542-1591), by making a comparative analysis focused on the way they think using images, the way they create images and how these ones relate to their texts. In particular, we will analyze the symbol of the mountain, which both authors use in a very specific way, and through which they chart a spiritual topography, both graphic and mental, in devotional and didactic contexts. The mountain is studied through its inherent structure of polarity (top and bottom) and its articulation through the gradual image of the ladder. We will study how they construct negative theologies through an apophatic meditational practice, and we will highlight analogies by discussing historical differences. This will persuade us of the possible existence of a continuum, a real underground tradition, a transmission of metaphors and apophatic discourses, which encompasses the Mirror of Simple Souls and emerges in Spain in the 16th century.
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SCRIPTA. Revista Internacional de Literatura i Cultura Medieval, 4, 2014
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Revista de la Inquisición. Intolerancia y derechos humanos, 18, Nov 2014
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Revista San Juan de la Cruz 47, 2014
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Scintilla, 2013
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Viridarium 8, 2012
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Religio in labyrintho. Encuentros y desencuentros de religiones en sociedades complejas, 2013
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Ciencia Tomista 140, 2013
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Archivum Franciscanum Historicum 106, 2013
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Tesis Doctorals en Xarxa. http://www.tdx.cat/handle/10803/7456, 2011
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Serra Zamora, Anna; Mestres Serra, Josep M.
Barcelona: Institut d'Estudis Catalans, 2011. 123 pàg... more Serra Zamora, Anna; Mestres Serra, Josep M.
Barcelona: Institut d'Estudis Catalans, 2011. 123 pàgines.
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Serra Zamora, Anna; Mestres Serra, Josep M.
Barcelona: Institut d'Estudis Catalans, 2011. 109 pà... more Serra Zamora, Anna; Mestres Serra, Josep M.
Barcelona: Institut d'Estudis Catalans, 2011. 109 pàgines.
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This paper aims to develop a theory of image based on the Mirror of Simple Souls by the French beguine Marguerite dicta Porete (ca. 1260-1310) and the poems and commentaries by the Spanish Carmelite John of the Cross (1542-1591), by making a comparative analysis focused on the way they think using images, the way they create images and how these ones relate to their texts. In particular, we will analyze the symbol of the mountain, which both authors use in a very specific way, and through which they chart a spiritual topography, both graphic and mental, in devotional and didactic contexts. The mountain is studied through its inherent structure of polarity (top and bottom) and its articulation through the gradual image of the ladder. We will study how they construct negative theologies through an apophatic meditational practice, and we will highlight analogies by discussing historical differences. This will persuade us of the possible existence of a continuum, a real underground tradition, a transmission of metaphors and apophatic discourses, which encompasses the Mirror of Simple Souls and emerges in Spain in the 16th century.
Proceedings by Anna Serra
REVIEWS by Anna Serra
Thesis by Anna Serra
Books by Anna Serra
Barcelona: Institut d'Estudis Catalans, 2011. 123 pàgines.
Barcelona: Institut d'Estudis Catalans, 2011. 109 pàgines.
Other by Anna Serra
This paper aims to develop a theory of image based on the Mirror of Simple Souls by the French beguine Marguerite dicta Porete (ca. 1260-1310) and the poems and commentaries by the Spanish Carmelite John of the Cross (1542-1591), by making a comparative analysis focused on the way they think using images, the way they create images and how these ones relate to their texts. In particular, we will analyze the symbol of the mountain, which both authors use in a very specific way, and through which they chart a spiritual topography, both graphic and mental, in devotional and didactic contexts. The mountain is studied through its inherent structure of polarity (top and bottom) and its articulation through the gradual image of the ladder. We will study how they construct negative theologies through an apophatic meditational practice, and we will highlight analogies by discussing historical differences. This will persuade us of the possible existence of a continuum, a real underground tradition, a transmission of metaphors and apophatic discourses, which encompasses the Mirror of Simple Souls and emerges in Spain in the 16th century.
Barcelona: Institut d'Estudis Catalans, 2011. 123 pàgines.
Barcelona: Institut d'Estudis Catalans, 2011. 109 pàgines.