Long Middle Ages or appropriations of the medieval? : A reflection on how to decolonize the Middle Ages through the theory of Medievalism

Maria Eugênia Bertarelli; Clinio Oliveira Amaral

doi:10.15848/hh.v13i33.1555

Authors

Maria Eugênia Bertarelli UFRRJ Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4884-956X
Clinio Oliveira Amaral UFRRJ Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3495-9848

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15848/hh.v13i33.1555

Keywords:

Medievalism, Long Middle Ages, Historiography

Abstract

We present an overview of the studies on the Middle Ages that exceeds the traditional chronological milestones of the period. Initially, we present the historiography on the Long Middle Ages, a construct that postulates the idea of a medieval world found in the present and thus, beyond the 15th century and the European continent. In contrast, we seek to present the theory of Medievalism which emphasizes the relationship between the contemporary world and the discursive appropriations of the medieval period. This theory is not quite familiar in the Brazilian academic context, but it offers great possibilities to approach the Middle Ages from a more autonomous perspective, rather than the European historiography, on which, historically, medieval studies have been grounded.

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Author Biographies

Maria Eugênia Bertarelli, UFRRJ Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro

Doutora em História, professora da UFRRJ e da Unigranrio

Clinio Oliveira Amaral, UFRRJ Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro

Doutor em História, professor do de partamento de História da UFRRJ

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