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This famous Catalan mystic is presented here with selections from his writings.
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The autobiography of an influential medieval Catalan intellectual. Ramon Llull was a highly original medieval writer and thinker. Direct contact with Moslem culture during his early years in Majorca, soon after the Christian reconquest, furnished him with a vision of the "Other" quite unique among medieval European intellectuals. It was not, however, until his thirties that he abandoned the courtly life, immersed himself in theological and philosophical studies and began his sustained campaign of conversion. He travelledon many occasions throughout Europe in search of royal and papal support and undertook several missions to north Africa, in the course of one of which he was stoned and impri...
This book attempts to explain the functioning of the combinatorial, semi-mechanical demonstrative techniques of Ramon Llull's 'Art', how it began as an apologetic instrument, how it developed through two main stages, and how it ended trying to reformulate key aspects of medieval Aristotelian logic.
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Excerpt from The "Art De Contemplacio" Of Ramon Lull: Published With an Introduction and a Study of the Language of the Author Barcelona and Palma de Mallorca in search of other mss. Of the Blaquma. In Palma I not only copied a ms. Of the fifth book of the Blaquema, but gathered other information bearing on the subject. In the course of a brief stay in Munich, in the latter part of the summer, I procured photographs of some portions of the ms. In the Royal Library of that city by means of which I could work directly upon the ms. At my own convenience. Returning to Baltimore in the autumn of 1899, I found myself provided with the material carrying out the work contained in this thesis. About ...