Alfons Puigarnau
Biographic Data
| ID | 1111114 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alfons Puigarnau |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alfons |
| FAMILY NAME | Puigarnau |
| SIGNATURE | PUIGARNAU A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Pontifical University of Salamanca |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7608-7200 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Catalan Sigillography and Beyond: Iconic Behaviors in Medieval Breaking Seals
The author analyzes various cases of breaking seal matrices in medieval Catalonia and other regions in this text. The manuscript notes of the Catalan sigillographer Ferran de Sagarra guide the exploration of the mechanisms of signification associated with an essential medieval political theology. Beyond the materiality of the sigillary matrix and the printed seal, one can decipher a series of iconic behaviors that allow the author to propose a me…
Suspense and Christian Culture: Visual Analogies in Alfred Hitchcock's Movies
In this text, the author analyzes the convergence between Christian culture and relevant films of Alfred Hitchcock's suspense filmography. Rather than focusing on Hitchcock's status as a Catholic director, he makes an empirical analysis that allows him to find certain visual analogies between the Christian imaginary and the frames of certain films of the master of suspense. This article understands cinema as a kind of mental, psychological, or sp…
An Ontology of the Word in Catalan Romanesque Culture
The history of culture in Catalonia during the Romanesque period (9th-12th centuries) has often been written from a strongly positivist mentality, which is a reductionistic approach. Economic history has distorted this period's intellectual and cultural history. This article presents a compelling analysis of a series of manuscripts from the monastery of Ripoll in the context of Catalonia's visual and intellectual culture between the 10th and 12th…
Ernst Kantorowicz's Synthronos: New Perspectives on Medieval Charisma
In this text, the author analyzes the notion of charisma that appears implicitly in the medieval political theology of Ernst H. Kantorowicz. The text to be analyzed is Synthronos, a manuscript from 1951 on the iconography of the sharing-throne between gods and kings, which the author was unable to publish before he died. The notion of charisma is surveyed in St. Paul's theology of grace and Max Weber's sociology of dominion in order to find a thi…
Ernst H. Kantorowicz's phases of medieval rulership
The Ernst Kantorowicz’s personal writings are held at the Leo Baeck Institute Archives in New York City. The “Phases of Medieval Rulership” is a little corpus of unknown pages where the German historian had drafted in the 40’s of the 20th century the project of a new book which ultimately remained unpublished. In this article the author analyses the contents of this book comparing different manuscript versions and explaining the historian’s versi…
Iconología política en la Cataluña medieval
Entre los siglos XIII y XIV se escriben en Cataluña las llamadas Quatre grans cròniques. Tres de sus cuatro autores muestran la pretendida conexión de los hechos históricos con la Providencia divina. Desarrollan un concepto de Historia en el que el Espacio y el Tiempo son categorías necesariamente dominadas por fuerzas sobrenaturales. Al analizar estos documentos se registra un intento de legitimar el poder político a través del paralelismo entre…
Un arte de la palabra en la Cataluña del siglo XII
[fr] Cet article propose une approche culturelle à quelques manuscrits et images artistiques du XlIème siècle catalan. Ces pages relèvent d'une intention de dépasser l'historicisme et constituent un essai de vérifier jusqu'à quel point il est possible de réaliser une histoire de la culture médiévale catalane d'un point de vue plus herméneutique. Des sources primaires telles que manuscrits liturgiques, peintures murales, frontais d'autel et inscri…
Ernst Kantorowicz's Synthronos: New Perspectives on Medieval Charisma
In this text, the author analyzes the notion of charisma that appears implicitly in the medieval political theology of Ernst H. Kantorowicz. The text to be analyzed is Synthronos, a manuscript from 1951 on the iconography of the sharing-throne between gods and kings, which the author was unable to publish before he died. The notion of charisma is surveyed in St. Paul's theology of grace and Max Weber's sociology of dominion in order to find a thi…
Un arte de la palabra en la Cataluña del siglo XII
[fr] Cet article propose une approche culturelle à quelques manuscrits et images artistiques du XlIème siècle catalan. Ces pages relèvent d'une intention de dépasser l'historicisme et constituent un essai de vérifier jusqu'à quel point il est possible de réaliser une histoire de la culture médiévale catalane d'un point de vue plus herméneutique. Des sources primaires telles que manuscrits liturgiques, peintures murales, frontais d'autel et inscri…
Iconología política en la Cataluña medieval
Entre los siglos XIII y XIV se escriben en Cataluña las llamadas Quatre grans cròniques. Tres de sus cuatro autores muestran la pretendida conexión de los hechos históricos con la Providencia divina. Desarrollan un concepto de Historia en el que el Espacio y el Tiempo son categorías necesariamente dominadas por fuerzas sobrenaturales. Al analizar estos documentos se registra un intento de legitimar el poder político a través del paralelismo entre…
Ernst H. Kantorowicz's phases of medieval rulership
The Ernst Kantorowicz’s personal writings are held at the Leo Baeck Institute Archives in New York City. The “Phases of Medieval Rulership” is a little corpus of unknown pages where the German historian had drafted in the 40’s of the 20th century the project of a new book which ultimately remained unpublished. In this article the author analyses the contents of this book comparing different manuscript versions and explaining the historian’s versi…
Ernst Kantorowicz's Synthronos: New Perspectives on Medieval Charisma
In this text, the author analyzes the notion of charisma that appears implicitly in the medieval political theology of Ernst H. Kantorowicz. The text to be analyzed is Synthronos, a manuscript from 1951 on the iconography of the sharing-throne between gods and kings, which the author was unable to publish before he died. The notion of charisma is surveyed in St. Paul's theology of grace and Max Weber's sociology of dominion in order to find a thi…
Suspense and Christian Culture: Visual Analogies in Alfred Hitchcock's Movies
In this text, the author analyzes the convergence between Christian culture and relevant films of Alfred Hitchcock's suspense filmography. Rather than focusing on Hitchcock's status as a Catholic director, he makes an empirical analysis that allows him to find certain visual analogies between the Christian imaginary and the frames of certain films of the master of suspense. This article understands cinema as a kind of mental, psychological, or sp…
An Ontology of the Word in Catalan Romanesque Culture
The history of culture in Catalonia during the Romanesque period (9th-12th centuries) has often been written from a strongly positivist mentality, which is a reductionistic approach. Economic history has distorted this period's intellectual and cultural history. This article presents a compelling analysis of a series of manuscripts from the monastery of Ripoll in the context of Catalonia's visual and intellectual culture between the 10th and 12th…
Catalan Sigillography and Beyond: Iconic Behaviors in Medieval Breaking Seals
The author analyzes various cases of breaking seal matrices in medieval Catalonia and other regions in this text. The manuscript notes of the Catalan sigillographer Ferran de Sagarra guide the exploration of the mechanisms of signification associated with an essential medieval political theology. Beyond the materiality of the sigillary matrix and the printed seal, one can decipher a series of iconic behaviors that allow the author to propose a me…
Art (4 works) · Archaeological and Historical Studies (3 works) · Art history (3 works) · History (3 works) · Medieval Iberian Studies (3 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Catalan (2 works) · Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies (2 works) · Humanities (2 works) · Law (2 works)