Etica e estetica medievale vs. contemporaneità: tentativi di dialogo

Patrizia Maria Serra

Writing - Review & Editing

2020-01-01

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Abstract

Outside the academic context, contemporaneity offers a reading of the Middle Ages –notwithstanding the limits of a nostalgic and dreamlike transfiguration of the era – which nevertheless highlights the fundamental and persistent value attributed to the core of ethical and medieval aesthetics. The philologist's task is thus to identify a path that, starting from the concrete individual and historical realization of these instances – as depicted in the texts -, allows the link between the two eras to be re-established, drawing from the past what is needed for the present.