Unbelievable middle ages
Medieval Fascination and Disenchantment between Renaissance and Enlightenment
Presentazione
Four years after Volume 12 (2020) of Filologia germanica – Germanic Philology, the present issue reconsiders the Nachleben of the Germanic Middle Ages, the formative period in which vernacular literatures emerged and upon which medieval philology is grounded.
The Middle Ages, however, have never constituted a clearly delimited epoch: early designations such as media aetas or media tempestas already point to their fluid boundaries. Coined within Renaissance Humanism as part of a self-conscious rupture with the past, the notion of a “middle” age developed through classicist and later Romantic revivals, which reinterpreted medieval culture while redefining its relation to Antiquity. The essays collected in this volume explore these processes, offering new perspectives on how the medieval past has been continuously reshaped and reimagined.
Marco Battaglia is Full Professor of Germanic Philology and Nordic Literatures at the University of Pisa. His research concerns medieval Nordic literatures (esp. Icelandic and Danish), the Nibelung-Volsung tradition, the Germanic peoples as a historical and cultural problem, as well as the reception of the Middle Ages between the Renaissance and the Romanticism.
The Middle Ages, however, have never constituted a clearly delimited epoch: early designations such as media aetas or media tempestas already point to their fluid boundaries. Coined within Renaissance Humanism as part of a self-conscious rupture with the past, the notion of a “middle” age developed through classicist and later Romantic revivals, which reinterpreted medieval culture while redefining its relation to Antiquity. The essays collected in this volume explore these processes, offering new perspectives on how the medieval past has been continuously reshaped and reimagined.
Marco Battaglia is Full Professor of Germanic Philology and Nordic Literatures at the University of Pisa. His research concerns medieval Nordic literatures (esp. Icelandic and Danish), the Nibelung-Volsung tradition, the Germanic peoples as a historical and cultural problem, as well as the reception of the Middle Ages between the Renaissance and the Romanticism.
Presentazione
Four years after Volume 12 (2020) of Filologia germanica – Germanic Philology, the present issue reconsiders the Nachleben of the Germanic Middle Ages, the formative period in which vernacular literatures emerged and upon which medieval philology is grounded.
The Middle Ages, however, have never constituted a clearly delimited epoch: early designations such as media aetas or media tempestas already point to their fluid boundaries. Coined within Renaissance Humanism as part of a self-conscious rupture with the past, the notion of a “middle” age developed through classicist and later Romantic revivals, which reinterpreted medieval culture while redefining its relation to Antiquity. The essays collected in this volume explore these processes, offering new perspectives on how the medieval past has been continuously reshaped and reimagined.
Marco Battaglia is Full Professor of Germanic Philology and Nordic Literatures at the University of Pisa. His research concerns medieval Nordic literatures (esp. Icelandic and Danish), the Nibelung-Volsung tradition, the Germanic peoples as a historical and cultural problem, as well as the reception of the Middle Ages between the Renaissance and the Romanticism.
The Middle Ages, however, have never constituted a clearly delimited epoch: early designations such as media aetas or media tempestas already point to their fluid boundaries. Coined within Renaissance Humanism as part of a self-conscious rupture with the past, the notion of a “middle” age developed through classicist and later Romantic revivals, which reinterpreted medieval culture while redefining its relation to Antiquity. The essays collected in this volume explore these processes, offering new perspectives on how the medieval past has been continuously reshaped and reimagined.
Marco Battaglia is Full Professor of Germanic Philology and Nordic Literatures at the University of Pisa. His research concerns medieval Nordic literatures (esp. Icelandic and Danish), the Nibelung-Volsung tradition, the Germanic peoples as a historical and cultural problem, as well as the reception of the Middle Ages between the Renaissance and the Romanticism.
Unbelievable middle ages
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