Pablo Acosta-García- PhD
- PostDoc Position at Autonomous University of Barcelona
Pablo Acosta-García
- PhD
- PostDoc Position at Autonomous University of Barcelona
Postdoctoral Research Associate ERC Advanced Grant. Former Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow (Düsseldorf Universität).
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Introduction
Postdoctoral Fellow at ERC SOUNDSPACE (UAB). Former María Zambrano Postdoctoral Fellow (UAB) and Marie Curie Fellow (Heinrich-Heine-Düsseldorf-Universität, Germany, WIMPACT, Late Medieval Visionary Women’s Impact in Early modern Castilian Spiritual Tradition).
Member of the projects ‘Catálogo de santas vivas (1400-1550)’ (PID2019-104237GB-I00)', 'Poetics and Politics in Early Modern Europe’ (2021SGR00742), INDEX (PDC2022-133136-I00) and SORORES.
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August 2017 - present
January 2017 - present
January 2016 - present
Education
January 2007 - July 2009
January 2005 - January 2007
January 1999 - January 2004
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Publications (54)
This volume explores the intensification of, and the transformations in literary engagement, scribal activities, and other forms of cultural production in the context of the spread of Observant reforms and the emergence of the Devotio moderna in late medieval Europe. It charts the connections between the specific characteristics of this cultural pr...
In this article I conduct a comparative analysis between some of the sermons of the Libro del conorte, which textualizes part of the ecstatic preaching of the Franciscan abbess Juana de la Cruz (1481-1534), and some of the public or semi-public revelations of Elisabeth von Schönau (1129-1164/1165). Despite the years separating their work, I study i...
This article introduces the “Catalogue of Living Saints,” a wiki
catalogue that provides knowledge about the lives of Castilian
charismatic women, prior to Teresa of Ávila (d. 1582), who
acquired reputations for holiness in their own times. The lives of
these “holy” women show great contact between court and
convent, and they contribute to better u...
Christian devotional practices are of a very ambiguous nature, they encompass the passage from the realms of the body to the realms of the mind, and, in the case of involved revelatory phenomena, even to the states beyond the intellectual. In Late Medieval Christianity, these practices can initially be described as conscious, culturally oriented pe...
This first edition presents a critical text of The Sermon on the Trinity by the visionary Franciscan abbess Juana de la Cruz (1481–1534), accompanied by a philologically rigorous transcription and an English translation a fronte. The introduction situates Juana de la Cruz within the broader context of medieval female preachers, examining her unique...
Nuevas perspectivas para el estudio de las santas vivas en la Baja Edad Media castellana
Introducción al número monográfico de Revista de poética medieval "Nuevas perspectivas para el estudio de las santas vivas castellanas en la Baja Edad Media"
"En el panorama literario hispánico sigue siendo difícil abordar las figuras de Teresa de Jesús y Juan de la Cruz desde el punto de vista de su tradición europea. La percepción de su obra com...
En Malos libros: la censura en la España moderna, se propone a los visitantes una reflexión sobre la censura y sobre su impacto en el patrimonio bibliográfico, en la cultura y en la historia de nuestro país. Esta exposición invita a recorrer una parte de nuestro pasado, donde los protagonistas son aquellos “malos libros”, que por diferentes motivos...
Reseña de: Zambon, Francesco (2021), Il fiore inverso. I poeti del trobar clus. Milano: Luni Editrice.
Se interpretan los datos recabados en el análisis codicológico del manuscrito de la Real Biblioteca del Monasterio de San Lorenzo de El Escorial, J-II-18. El códice contiene una de las dos únicas copias existentes del denominado Libro del conorte, que recoge la predicación visionaria de la abadesa franciscana Juana de la Cruz (1481-1534). El hallaz...
The aim of this chapter is to explore the role played by the notion of nothingness in the hermeneutics of poetic experience of two authors who worked independently on this issue, the Spanish poet José Ángel Valente and the Japanese philosopher Ueda Shizuteru. Here, we examine how both authors offered a theoretical reflection on language and creativ...
In the following pages I provide a Philological edition of five unpublished songs linked with the production of the Franciscan abbess Juana de la Cruz (1481-1534). I study first the source from a material point of view, and then develop a metric analysis of thesongs, putting them in the context of the Franciscan lyrical poetry at a European level....
In this article, I study in depth the first vita of the Franciscan Tertiary abbess Juana de la Cruz (Vida y fin de la bienaventurada virgen sancta Juana de la Cruz, written c. 1534), examining it as a chronicle that narrativizes the origins and reform of a specific religious community in the Castile of the Catholic Monarchs. I argue that Vida y fin...
in Archivio Italiano per la Storia della Pietà, XXXIII, 143-172.
OPEN ACCESS HERE: 10.5281/zenodo.4580499
In this article I gather the lives of a group of Castilian sante vive from the 15th and 16th centuries (María de Ajofrín, Juana de la Cruz and María de Santo Domingo and others) and establish a detailed hagiographic comparative analysis which...
In this article I analyze the translations commissioned in 1505 and 1510 by the Cardinal Francisco Ximénez Cisneros of the Book of the Medieval Italian Mystic Angela of Foligno (c. 1242-1308). In the first place, I clarify the material avatars of Angela’s text, by discussing the three main branches of her manuscript tradition. In the second place,...
In this article I analyze the devotional post-incunabula commissioned by Cardinal Francisco Ximénez Cisneros through a case study: the Liber qui dicitur Angela de Fulginio (1505), which also includes Liber specialis (aka spiritualis) gratiae by Mechthild von Hackeborn and the Prima regula by Francis of Assisi. In the first place, I will study the s...
En este artículo nos acercamos al grupo de post-incunables de temática místico-devocional encomendados por el Cardenal Francisco Ximénez de Cisneros a través de un estudio de caso: el del Liber qui dicitur Angela de Fulginio de 1505, que además contiene el Liber specialis (o spiritualis) gratiae de Mechthild von Hackeborn y la Prima regula de Franc...
In this article, I analyze the translation commissioned in 1511 by Cardinal Francisco Ximénez Cisneros of the Life of Catherine of Siena by Raimundo de Capua, which includes the legendae of Giovanna (also known as Vanna) da Orvieto and Margherita da Città di Castello in the light of its translation, commission, and reception in premodern Castile. I...
The main focus of this essay is the study of the image of the mirror in the works of religious women from the 13th and 14th centuries (Mechthild von Magdeburg, Hadewijch van Brabant and Marguerite Porete), especially regarding the Platonic tradition which links this image with the soul. I will examine fragments of their literary work in order to di...
In this article I present and analyze four different translations of the 'Liber Lelle' (The 'Book of Angela of Foligno'): two medieval ones in Catalan (both from the 15th century), one Early Modern
in Castilian (1510) and a last one in modern Spanish (2014). In the case of the Catalan and Castilian ones, I discuss the importance of analyzing them a...
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En este artículo analizaremos el uso que hace José Ángel Valente del modus dicendi místico para explicar su propia concepción de la poesía. Lo haremos a través de diversos ensayos del autor, que iremos conectando en pos de una sistematicidad de pensamiento. Nos interesa indagar, en primer lugar, en qué concebía Valente como "místico" en re...
This book addresses the history of the senses in relation to affective piety and its role in devotional practices in the late Middle Ages, focusing on the sense of touch. It argues that only by deeply analysing this specific context of perception can the full significance of sensory religious experience in the Late Middle Ages be understood. Consid...
This article contains three different parts: first, it presents and analyzes the main scholarship related to the edition of the text of the The Mirror of Simple Souls (Speculum simplicium animarum / Le Mirouer des simples ames) by the heretic beguine from Hainaut ftarguerite dicta Porete (d. 1310). It demonstrates that despite the publication of th...
""According to Pablo Acosta, pain and desire were the crucial physical and spiritual sensations in Angela of Foligno’s mystical experiences, which she described in her Memoriale in the late thirteenth century. In her works, this Franciscan Tertiary shows a clear preference for the figure of the Virgin Mary, which she places in a central place of he...
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 on...
Abstract: In this article we compare the language of light used by Dante Alighieri with the one used by his "heretical" contemporary Marguerite dicta Porete (1310) to express the final contact-vision of God. We will analyze both authors' use of the images of light, of the gradual ascent and of the knot, placing their books in the context of the the...
In this article we compare the language of light used by Dante Alighieri with the one used by his “heretical” contemporary Marguerite dicta Porete (†1310) to express the final contact- vision of God. We will analyze both authors’ use of the images of light, of the gradual ascent and of the knot, placing their books in the context of the theological...
This article claims a critical return to the study of the main manuscripts of the “heretical” book written by Marguerite dicta Porete (Le Mirouer des simples ames) for analizing codicological aspects which neither the editions, nor the modern translations, have taken into account. In doing so we propose a series of analysis of the so-called Chantil...
L'Arioste et les arts constitutes a volume of scholarly essays written in French by a group of specialists who study the various facets of Ludovico Ariosto's literary work in rela-tion to the arts. It represents the partial edition of the papers presented at the homonymous 2009 symposium (Paris, Auditorium du Louvre, 27 and 28 March). he diverse po...
Nuestro capítulo se enmarca dentro de la tesis doctoral que finalizamos en 2009 y que intenta recuperar el legado gráfico del Mirouer des simples ames (c. 1290) de Marguerite Porete. Tanto ella como su tratado fueron sometidos a una persecución inquisitorial que concluyó con el encarcelamiento de la escritora, la prohibición de su tratado y la quem...
This review deals with a book that contains a new translation of the legenda of one of the most interesting women mystics in the late medieval Italian peninsula. We know that Margaret of Cortona forms part of a wider mosaic of Franciscan Tertiaries, alongside other historical figures like Angela of Foligno (ca. 1242-1308) and Clara of Montefalco (c...
This article is part of the scholarly revival in Angela of Foligno (c. 1248-c. 1308) studies in relation to images. With the exhibition entitled Dal visibile all’indicibile. Crocifissi ed esperienza mistica in Angela da Foligno (Foligno, October 6th, 2012 – January 6th, 2013) and the publication of the catalogue, relations between Angela’s visions...
This paper aims to show how Le Mirouer des simples ames, a theological treatise by the heretic beguine Marguerite Porete (†1310), constructs visual images to teach a specific set of doctrines to a public not necessarily clerical or educated. We should start from the fact that this book has no iconography in the traditional sense of the term, but th...
This paper claims a critical return to the study of the main manuscripts of the “heretical” book written by Marguerite Porete (Le Mirouer des simples ames) for studying codicological aspects which neither the editions, nor the modern translations, have taken into account. In doing so we propose a series of analysis of the so-called Chantilly manusc...
Nelle pagine che seguono analizzeremo uno dei testi fondamentali della mistica europea basso medievale, il Mirouer des simples ames di Marguerite dicta Porete, alla ricerca della sua paradossale relazione con l’immagine . Avremo modo di spiegare come viene utilizzato uno strumento eminentemente visivo per negare la percezione della divinità e, al t...
This article argues the need to return to the study of the main manuscripts of the "heretical" book written by Marguerite Porete (Le Mirouer des simples ames) and study its codicological aspects which neither the editions, nor the modern translations, have taken into account. The study of the so-called Chantilly manuscript and its marginal marks (m...
This is an essay about the use of the ‘image’ in Le Mirouer des simples ames by Marguerite Porete. We have divided it in two different parts: in the first one, we claim the didactic character of the poretean book and we defend that it should be understood in the teaching contexts of the late medieval vernacular theologies. In the second, we analyze...
In this article we compare the images used by Dante Alighieri with the ones used by her “heretical” contemporary Marguerite Porete (†1310) for expressing the final contact-vision of God. We will analyze the use of the images of light, the gradual ascent and the knot in both authors, putting it into the context of the theological doctrines about the...
Reivindicamos desde estas páginas la necesidad de reubicar el Mirouer des simples ames en su contexto medieval para restaurar sus imágenes en lo que a percepción, retórica y recepción se refiere. En este trabajo tomaremos lo textualmente visible como categoría de análisis histórico y lo justificaremos por su carácter didáctico, situándolo en contex...
El Mirouer des simples ames, manual doctrinal del siglo XIII, ha llegado hasta nosotros determinado por unas circunstancias históricas que intentaron suprimirlo en su materialidad, llegando hasta el punto de quemar a su fuente viva: a su autora, Marguerite Porete. A pesar de estos condicionantes, la obra nos ha llegado a través de diversos códices,...
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