Parution : Unbelievable Middle Ages

Marco Battaglia (dir.), Unbelievable Middle Ages. Medieval Fascination and Disenchantment between Renaissance and Enlightenment, Pise, Pisa University Press, coll. Borealia, 2026.

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.

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Justine Breton
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Justine Breton (10 mai 2026). Parution : Unbelievable Middle Ages. Modernités médiévales. Consulté le 7 juin 2026 à l’adresse https://doi.org/10.58079/16722