Robert Ricard, 1900-1984

METODOLOGÍA DE LA INVESTIGACIÓN CUALITATIVA, 2023

En este libro se presenta un manual de cómo realizar una investigación cualitativa desde una perspectiva interpretativa. Para esto se abordan cada una de las etapas del proceso de investigación

Triptiek uit Granada van Dieric Bouts, iconografische analyse (zicht op 2de stadswal rond Leuven), 2024

Triptiek uit Granada met de Kruisafneming, Dieric Bouts, begin 2de helft 15de eeuw. Poging tot identificatie van Leuvense referentiepunten in het landschap op de achtergrond en van het begrijpen van de boodschap van dit beeld, aug. 2024, dankzij macrofotografie.

Open letter by academicians, 2023

A call by academicians world-wide to condemn the heinous Hamas terrorist attack on Israel and to free the hostages and kidnapped. Academicians from Israel and abroad are asked to sign.

2024

Universität Siegen, Guest Erasmus Lectures, 2-4 May 2024 – These lectures were intended to present a concise history of the development of the notions of ‘scholastic philosophy’ and ‘second scholasticism’, to expose their modern origins and biases, to demonstrate their criticalities and to warn against their inadequacy to express and describe the historical phenomena to which they are usually referred. Here I offer the texts I have read and commented on for this purpose.

Poetic Rewritings in Late Latin Antiquity and Beyond, 2024

Unlike many poetic paraphrases from Late Antiquity, Venantius Fortunatus’ epic Life of St Martin has a clear and well-documented readership: Radegund, Agnes and their monastic community of Sainte-Croix at Poitiers. Moreover, this readership demonstrably affects the poetic rewriting of the source text (Sulpicius Severus’ Life of St Martin and Dialogues). After briefly contextualising the devotion for Martin at Sainte-Croix and diocesan relationships between Tours and Poitiers, this chapter discusses two sections of the epic poem: (1) Martin’s speech unmasking Satan posing as triumphant Christ (Mart. 2. 316-343) and (2) a vision of Mary as richly adorned queen of heaven (Mart. 3. 456-474), which show clear signs of audience-driven réécriture. Within these sections, strategic self-allusions to other poems composed for the same readership, such as the Hymns to the Cross (carm. 2. 1, 2, 6) and De virginitate (carm. 8. 3), are identified. In combination with other sources (Caesarius of Arles’ Regula ad virgines, Gregory of Tours, archaeological finds), these allusions reveal features of the poem that reflect and respond to the cultic environment of Sainte-Croix. Yet, the poem’s readership also affects what is excluded from the source text. The anchoress who refused to meet Martin lest she contravene her vows (3) was praised by Sulpicius Severus (Dial. 2. 12) as a paragon of strict observance. However, Fortunatus left out this pericope because it presented a form of monachism that was no longer viable in the sixth century, and possibly contradicted the reality of his own special relationship with Radegund and Agnes.

Religions

The spiritual dimension of patients has progressively gained more relevance in healthcare in the last decades. However, the term “spiritual” is an open, fluid concept and, for health purposes, no definition of spirituality is universally accepted. Health professionals and researchers have the challenge to cover the entire spectrum of the spiritual level in their practice. This is particularly difficult because most healthcare courses do not prepare their graduates in this field. They also need to face acts of prejudice by their peers or their managers. Here, the authors aim to clarify some common grounds between secular and religious worlds in the realm of spirituality and healthcare. This is a conceptual manuscript based on the available scientific literature and on the authors’ experience. The text explores the secular and religious intersection involving spirituality and healthcare, together with the common ground shared by the two fields, and consequent clinical implications. Su...

Neusis 30 (2), 2024

In this paper it is proposed that the techniques employed by Diophantus is his solutions of the equations with two unknowns can be explained by means of the theory of proportions. At the same time, a number of arguments are advanced against interpreting the same techniques through modern algebraic geometry. The interpretation by means of proportions was proposed for the first time by Maximus Planudes (ca. 1255–1305) in his commentary on problem II.8 of the Arithmetica. Finally, an appendix presents letters (copies and translations) received by the author from R. Rashed, I. G. Bashmakova, J. Høyrup, D. Fowler and S. Unguru, in which these historians express their views on the proposed interpretation.