El «amor que dicen <i>hereos</i>» o <i>aegritudo amoris</i>

Lanz, Eukene Lacarra

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“…Therapies that attempted to denigrate and abjectify women were originally highly specialized treatments for the very specific pathological conditions associated with amor hereos" (Solomon 1997, p. 63). Green (1964) considers amor hereos as an affliction related to aristocracy, and Lacarra Lanz (2015) points out that the name indicates its classification as a disease of the nobility in medieval medical texts. "As Andreas Capellanus explained, love 'arises not from any action, but solely from the thought formed by the mind as a result of the thing seen'.…”

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“Me Has Visto el Alma en los Ojos”: Hidden Passions in Spanish Golden Age Tragedy

Álvarez Sellers

2023

Humanities

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The Spanish Golden Age tragedy is assembled around the conflict of passions, which does not find an adequate channel of expression in words because there are feelings that cannot be confessed if one wants to preserve life. However, such intense emotions cannot be hidden for a long time, either. The characters discover that the eyes speak in silence and cannot lie, so they appeal to their sincerity at crucial moments. Such examples can be found in the declarations of love addressed to inaccessible or forbidden women or in the narratives of women who report sexual assault or husbands who believe they have been dishonored. In this article, we will analyze all these circumstances to demonstrate that, if they contradict the lips, the eyes are the windows of the soul, and they speak a language that is as expressive as it is eloquent.

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