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Die akademische Lehre von mittelalterlicher Literatur, Philosophie und Kunst etc. ist nicht unangefochten und muss sich erheblich darum bemühen, eigene Legitimationsstrategien zu entwickeln. Dieser Aufsatz reflektiert zunächst über die gegenwärtige schwierige Situation an der Universität und dann im Gegensatz dazu in der Öffentlichkeit, wo ja das Mittelalter geradezu boomt. Darauf verfolge ich pädagogische Perspektiven, die sehr praktisch gestaltet gerade auf der Grundstufe des Studiums neue Interessen und Motivationen zu wecken versprechen. Mittelalterliche Literatur an sich stellt ja gar nicht das entscheidende Problem dar, sondern Literatur schlechthin, also die Gefährdung der Geisteswissenschaften im Sog der Manie, den MINT-Fächern ausschließlichen Vorrang einzuräumen. Je grundsätzlicher wir also ansetzen, um kritische Fragen anzugehen, desto weniger erweist sich dann das Mittelalter als eine wirkliche Barriere, ganz im Gegenteil. Je eher wir bereit sind, bei der akademischen Ausbildung einen Schritt in die Vergangenheit zurückzugehen, desto mehr vermögen wir, idealistisch formuliert, unseren Student*innen den Weg in die Zukunft zu weisen., Medienimpulse, Bd. 60 Nr. 4 (2022): Medienpädagogische Entwürfe der Gegenwart: Normativität, Verantwortung, Gerechtigkeit

This study outlines how we might be able to explain and defend the supremely important role of the humanities, perhaps surprisingly, by resorting to medieval literature. While there are many good reasons even today, if not especially in the present, to promote the teaching of the humanities, many critics tend to undermine all cultural and historical investigations of the premodern world and subscribe to presentism. However, as medievalist perspectives can tell us, the very opposite is the case since both poets and philosophers from the past have preserved for us fundamental ideals and values, ethical concepts, and religious and cultural concepts about the interrelationshp between self and the world, between the material and the metaphysical dimension. Este estudio pone de relieve que debemos ser capaces de explicar y defender el enorme papel que desempeñan las humanidades, quizás incluso de un modo sorprendente al recurrir a la literatura medieval. A pesar de que en la actualidad siguen habiendo muchas buenas razones para promover la enseñanza de las humanidades, muchos críticos tienden a menospreciar las investigaciones culturales e históricas del mundo premoderno y se aferran al presentismo. No obstante, como las perspectivas medievalistas nos señalan, realmente se trata de todo lo contrario, ya que tanto poetas como filósofos del pasado nos han preservado ideales y valores fundamentales, conceptos éticos, e ideas religiosas y culturales acerca de la interrelación entre el ser y el mundo, así como entre lo material y lo metafísico.

On the basis of some Volksbücher, the author demonstrates how identity models of chivalric derivation enjoy a continuous hegemony, also in view of the radical transformations that interested European society in the mid-15th century. The privileged reference to the feudal/manorial environment fulfils a defensive function with regard to the overwhelming character of such transformations and to the turmoil that the political and territorial safety was experiencing because of the conflicts with the Ottoman Empire. The Volksbuch becomes the object of a conservative projection aimed at minimising the impact of economic and social changes, the effects of which extend throughout the 18th century and utterly influence the reception of this genre.

Actes du colloque de Tucson, AZ, 4-6 mai 2012; International audience

Actes du colloque de Tucson, AZ, 6 et 7 mai 2010; International audience

International audience

Ricostruzione della vita e delle opere di Ernst Hartwig Kantorowicz

During the Middle Ages the predominant Christian mentality played a fundamental role in establishing the rules according to which both personal and emotional connections between individuals, and the links between humans and the supernatural, were forged. Considering this, the present study will focus on a topic largely unexplored, the medieval Iberian interpretation of friendship, which will be examined through the analysis of the thirteenth‐century production ascribed to Alfonso X of Castile’s scriptorium. In particular, special emphasis will be devoted to the Marian collection of the Cantigas de Santa María together with several references to the legal corpus of the Siete Partidas.