Medievalismo literário português em contexto europeu

Abstract

In the first part of this volume dedicated to literary medievalism in a European context, the first three studies discuss different conceptualizations of medievalism, terminological issues and disciplinary boundaries and complementarities, while also outlining the medievalist reality in the United Kingdom, France and Spain. The second part is organized diachronically, according to the chronology of the works studied, which extend from the 19th century to the beginning of the 21st century, including authors such as Alexandre Herculano, Ruy Cinatti, Agustina Bessa-Luís, João Miguel Fernandes Jorge and a film by filmmaker António de Macedo. The fruitfulness of the temporal intersections endogenous to the discipline competes with the instability and historical determination of the representations of medieval otherness and with the reciprocal questions that the Middle Ages and contemporaneity pose, in a persistent inquiry into the limits of knowledge of the past and the present that rethinks it, academically or artistically.