Etica e estetica medievale vs. contemporaneità: tentativi di dialogo

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 reestablished, drawing from the past what is needed for the present.

Keywords: Philology, Ethical / aesthetic reflection, Representation of the Middle Ages