CATALAN REVIEW

Volume IV, Numbers 1-2 July-December, 1990

HOMAGE TO RAMON LLULL

Published under the auspices of the

NORTH AMERICAN CATALAN SOCIETY (NACS)


CONTENTS

MANUEL DURAN
Ramon Llull: An Introduction

ANTHONY BONNER
Bibliographic Introduction

I. LULL'S QUEST: MATTER, LOGIC, TRUTH, BEING

MICHELA PEREIRA
Lullian Alchemy: Aspects and Problems of the corpus of Alchemical Works Attributed to Ramon Llull (XIV-XVII Centuries)

ROBERT PRING-MILL
The Lullian "Art of Finding Truth": A Medieval System of Enquiry

JOHN R. WELCH
Llull and Leibniz: The Logic of Discovery

WILLIAM KLUBACK
Ramon Llull: The Dialogue of Love and Faith

ARMAND LLINARÈS
Les dignités divines dans le Libre de contemplació

II. LLULL AS A WRITER; LOVE AND KNOWLEDGE

LOLA BADIA
La novel.la espiritual de Barlaam i Josafat en el rerafons de la literatura lul.liana

MARIA ROSA MENOCAL
Love and Mercy at the Edge of Madness: Ramon Llull's Book of the Lover and the Beloved and Ibn'Arabî's "O doves of the arâk and the bân trees..."

JUAN COROMINAS, C.M.F.
The Joglar a lo diví in the Life and Work of Ramon Llull

DOMINIQUE URVOY
La place de Ramon Llull dans la pensée arabe

DAVID J. VIERA
Exempla in the Libre de Sancta Maria and Traditional Medieval Marian Miracles

ROBERTO J. GONZÁLEZ-CASANOVAS
Llull's Blanquerna anda the Art of Preaching: The Evolution towards the Novel-Sermon

ALBERT SOLER I LLOPART
Sobre el Blaquerna, la clerecia i una obra misteriosa

ELENA ROSSI
Ramon Llull a Novelist: The Visionary Realism of Blanquerna

THEODOR PINDL-BÜCHEL
Nicolas of Cusa's "Extractum ex libris meditacionum Raymundi" in the Manuscript Transmission of Ramon Llull's Latin Liber contemplationis: Preliminaries to a Critical Edition

JOSEP M. VIDAL I ROCA
Significacio i llenguatge

III. LLULL AND HIS TIMES: ETHIC, SOCIETY, POLITICS, HISTORY

LUISA PIEMONTESE-RAMOS
Libre del Ordre de Cavayleria: Fashion and Fiction

MARK D. JOHNSTON
Literacy, Spiritual Allegory, and Power: Llull's Libre de l'Ordre de Cavalleria

ANTHONY BONNER
Ramon Llull and the Dominicans

IV. THE BOOK OF THE BEASTS

MANUEL DURAN
An Introduction to Ramon Llull's The Book of the Beasts

RAMON LLULL
The Book of the Beasts (translated by David Rosenthal)

Cultural Information from Catalan Speaking Lands
(July 1988-December 1990)

History (Joan-F. Cabestany i Fort, Carles Santacana i Torres); Literature (Jaume Pérez Montaner); Linguistics (Joan Marti i Castell); Music (Xosé Aviñoa); Visual Arts (Anna Buti).

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