Petrarch's Conception of the 'Dark Ages'

Mommsen, Theodor

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“…They are often considered as empty of people and comfort. The term was originally applied to the perceived intellectual darkness of post-Roman Western Europe (Mommsen 1942), but it overlaps with terms adopted elsewhere, such as intermediate or warring states period, and hiatus, which indicate an interruption of what are often considered in hindsight to be normal or desirable periods of unity, stability, or progress.…”

Section: Dark Ages Resilience and Regenerationmentioning

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Nothing Lasts Forever: Environmental Discourses on the Collapse of Past Societies

Middleton

2012

J Archaeol Res

118

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The study of the collapse of past societies raises many questions for the theory and practice of archaeology. Interest in collapse extends as well into the natural sciences and environmental and sustainability policy. Despite a range of approaches to collapse, the predominant paradigm is environmental collapse, which I argue obscures recognition of the dynamic role of social processes that lie at the heart of human communities. These environmental discourses, together with confusion over terminology and the concepts of collapse, have created widespread aporia about collapse and resulted in the creation of mixed messages about complex historical and social processes.

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Section: Dark Ages Resilience and Regenerationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Nothing Lasts Forever: Environmental Discourses on the Collapse of Past Societies

Middleton

2012

J Archaeol Res

118

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“…If they did bring antiquity to life, they did so, not by forging some kind of magical identity but quite the opposite, by restoring antiquity to the standing of one of two different parties in the dialectical relation between the present and the past (cf. [41][42][43][44]). They understood what the ancients had known and the scholastics had forgotten: that the humanity of human beings unites them in the very act by which they take responsibility for differences dividing them from each other.…”

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Saving Renaissance and Reformation: History, Grammar, and Disagreements with the Dead

Fasolt

2012

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Abstract:Renaissance and Reformation used to serve historians as the main terms with which to refer to European history from roughly 1300-1600. Today those terms are commonly replaced with early modern history, and the periodization of European history into ancient, medieval, and modern periods itself is looking increasingly suspect. There are good reasons for those changes. But they obscure both the significance of disagreements dividing the living from the dead and the significance of grammar, in the fundamental sense of grammar advanced by Wittgenstein, for treating such disagreements. Renaissance and Reformation have the advantage of doing just the opposite: they confront us with both those disagreements and the significance of grammar. That makes them very much worth keeping.

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“…2 Si bien el primer testimonio de la expresión "Edad Media" se atribuye a Giovanni Andrea dei Bussi en el siglo xv (Edelman, 1938), Mommsen (1942) identifica a Petrarca como el principal impulsor de la estigmatización del periodo posterior a la caída de Roma como una época oscura en la cual la ciudad gloriosa "inter manus barbaricas imminitum atque debilitatum et pene consumptum sit" (Apologia contra cuiusdam anonymi Galli calumnias, citado por Mommsen, 1942:236): "By setting up the 'decline of the Empire' as a dividing point and by passing over the traditional marks either of the foundation of the Empire or the birth of Christ, Petrarch introduced a new chronological demarcation in history" (239). 3 Todas las citas están tomadas de la edición y traducción de Morrás (2000).…”

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Imágenes del autor en la literatura vernácula medieval: el caso de la narrativa anglonormanda

Dumas¹

2015

Epos : Revista De Filología

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ResumenEl surgimiento del autor suele considerarse una innovación del Renacimiento, particularmente, de Francesco Petrarca, quien, a diferencia de la mayoría de los poetas medievales, busca inscribirse de manera recurrente qua individuo en su obra. La distancia que separa a figuras como las de Petrarca de los autores medievales es, sin duda, insalvable. Pero este contraste, cierto y valedero, puede eclipsar las inflexiones que presenta la figura del autor en el campo de la literatura vernácula medieval. El análisis de dos textos anglonormandos compuestos en Inglaterra a fines del siglo xii, el Roman de Horn de Thomas y Boeve de Haumtone, puede resultar revelador para examinar las diversas posturas adoptadas por los poetas medievales según el modelo genérico en el cual enmarcan sus obras.Palabras clave: Autor; Edad Media; narrativa anglonormanda; Roman de Horn; Boeve de Haumtone. AbstractThe emergence of the author is usually attributed to the Renaissance, specifically, to Francesco Petrarch. Unlike most medieval poets, Petrarch frequently seeks to inscribe himself qua individual in his work. The distance separating figures such as Petrarch's from medieval authors can certainly not be breached. However, this contrast, true and accurate, might overshadow the inflexions shown by the authorial figure in medieval vernacular literature. The study of two Anglo-Norman works composed in England towards the end of the twelfth century, the Roman de Horn and Boeve de Haumtone, may shed some light on the different postures adopted by medieval poets according to the generic model in which they frame their work.

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Petrarch's Conception of the 'Dark Ages'

Cited by 153 publications

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Nothing Lasts Forever: Environmental Discourses on the Collapse of Past Societies

Nothing Lasts Forever: Environmental Discourses on the Collapse of Past Societies

Saving Renaissance and Reformation: History, Grammar, and Disagreements with the Dead

Imágenes del autor en la literatura vernácula medieval: el caso de la narrativa anglonormanda

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