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The present short essay, drawn from the introductive lecture given by Lucio Villari during the seminar Duc La Nostalgia delle origini. Eugène Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc e la percezione del Medioevo nell'Ottocento (University Mediterranea of Reggio Calabria, 7 May 2014). between the famous French architect's thinking and medieval thought. When speaking about Viollet-le-Duc, in fact, one is required to forget the term "restoration" for a while, seeing him in the light of the wider philosophical framework he applied to his own works, in which the rationality of the past was recalled for both a present and a future rationality of architecture. Viollet chose the Middle Ages as his reference period to develop this approach – which is applicable to any historical period – for two main reasons, cultural and political. From a cultural point of view, both the Middle Ages and Romanticism represented two vast avant-gardes, as they broke with traditional aesthetical languages. Using this commonality, from a political point of view, in the 19th century, it was possible to see the Middle Ages as the 'mother and father' of European history. This perception was strong in Italy, but even more so in France where, after the Napoleonic wars, the Middle Ages were seen as the true defining historical period of the country. Through reference to several intellectuals, such as Victor Hugo, Jules Michelet, Simon de Sismondi and Charles Baudelaire, Villari proves how Viollet-le-Duc was one of the few who glimpsed the continuity between past and present, developing a notion of the Middle Ages as 'the time and the place' where modern freedom germinated. ; ll presente saggio breve, trascrizione della relazione introduttiva tenuta dal professor Lucio Villari in occasione della Giornata di Studi "La nostalgia delle origini. Viollet-le-Duc e la percezione del Medioevo nell'Ottocento" (Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria, 7 maggio 2014), si confronta con il profondo rapporto tra il pensiero del famoso architetto francese e il pensiero ...

Cover page -- Halftitle page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- Courtship -- BEFORE THE MALE GAZE: THE ABSENCE OF THE FEMALE BODY IN OLD NORSE -- EROTIC MAGIC IN MEDIEVAL EUROPE -- A MEDIEVAL PHYSICIAN'S GUIDE TO VIRGINITY -- Disclosure -- TEXTS, NAKED AND THINLY VEILED: EROTIC ELEMENTS IN MEDIEVAL ITALIAN LITERATURE -- A FIFTEENTH-CENTURY PHYSICIAN'S ATTITUDE TOWARD SEXUALITY: DR. JOHANN HARTLIEB'S SECRETA MULIERUM TRANSLATION -- SEX AND CONFESSION IN THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY -- Diversity -- A SMORGASBORD OF SEXUAL PRACTICES -- FAWN OF MY DELIGHTS": BOY-LOVE IN HEBREW AND ARABIC VERSE -- BESTIALITY IN THE MIDDLE AGES -- THE STORY OF THE VÖLSI, AN OLD NORSE ANECDOTE OF CONVERSION -- Public Implications -- SAINTS AND SEX, CA. 500-1100: STRIDING DOWN THE NETTLED PATH OF LIFE -- PENIS CAPTIVUS -- THE POLITICS OF SODOMY: REX V. PONS HUGH DE AMPURIAS (1311) -- NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX

Preliminary Material /B. Bedos-Rezak -- Chapter One. Beyond The Text: Medieval Documentary Practices /B. Bedos-Rezak -- Chapter Two. Toward An Archaeology Of The Medieval Charter /B. Bedos-Rezak -- Chapter Three. Sign Theory, Medieval And Modern /B. Bedos-Rezak -- Chapter Four. The King's Sign /B. Bedos-Rezak -- Chapter Five. Eucharistic Theology And Episcopal Signature /B. Bedos-Rezak -- Chapter Six. Medieval Identity: Subject, Object, Agency /B. Bedos-Rezak -- Chapter Seven. Images Of Identity And The Identity Of Images /B. Bedos-Rezak -- Chapter Eight. Difformitas: Invective, Individuality, Identity /B. Bedos-Rezak -- Chapter Nine. The Semiotics Of Personality In The Middle Ages /B. Bedos-Rezak -- Conclusion /B. Bedos-Rezak -- Bibliography /B. Bedos-Rezak -- Index /B. Bedos-Rezak -- Plates /B. Bedos-Rezak.

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The present short essay, drawn from the introductive lecture given by Lucio Villari during the seminar Duc La Nostalgia delle origini. Eugène Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc e la percezione del Medioevo nell'Ottocento (University Mediterranea of Reggio Calabria, 7 May 2014). between the famous French architect's thinking and medieval thought. When speaking about Viollet-le-Duc, in fact, one is required to forget the term "restoration" for a while, seeing him in the light of the wider philosophical framework he applied to his own works, in which the rationality of the past was recalled for both a present and a future rationality of architecture. Viollet chose the Middle Ages as his reference period to develop this approach – which is applicable to any historical period – for two main reasons, cultural and political. From a cultural point of view, both the Middle Ages and Romanticism represented two vast avant-gardes, as they broke with traditional aesthetical languages. Using this commonality, from a political point of view, in the 19th century, it was possible to see the Middle Ages as the 'mother and father' of European history. This perception was strong in Italy, but even more so in France where, after the Napoleonic wars, the Middle Ages were seen as the true defining historical period of the country. Through reference to several intellectuals, such as Victor Hugo, Jules Michelet, Simon de Sismondi and Charles Baudelaire, Villari proves how Viollet-le-Duc was one of the few who glimpsed the continuity between past and present, developing a notion of the Middle Ages as 'the time and the place' where modern freedom germinated. ; ll presente saggio breve, trascrizione della relazione introduttiva tenuta dal professor Lucio Villari in occasione della Giornata di Studi "La nostalgia delle origini. Viollet-le-Duc e la percezione del Medioevo nell'Ottocento" (Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria, 7 maggio 2014), si confronta con il profondo rapporto tra il pensiero del famoso architetto francese e il pensiero medievale. Quando si parla di Viollet-le-Duc, infatti, è necessario dimenticare il termine "restauro" per un istante, guardando all'architetto francese nella più ampia prospettiva della struttura filosofica nella quale inquadrava i suoi lavori, nei quali la razionalità del passato era richiamata sia per la razionalità del presente che del futuro dell'architettura. Viollet scelse il Medioevo come periodo di riferimento per il proprio approccio – applicabile a qualsiasi altro periodo storico – per due ragioni principali, di tipo culturale e politico. Dal punto di vista culturale, sia il Medioevo che il Romanticismo hanno rappresentato, infatti, due grandi avanguardie, poiché in entrambi i casi avvenne una rottura dei linguaggi estetici tradizionali. Dal punto di vista politico, invece, attraverso i Comuni, nel diciannovesimo secolo era possibile guardare al Medioevo come 'la madre e il padre' della storia europea. Questa percezione era fortemente sentita in Italia, ma ancora di più in Francia dove, dopo le guerre napoleoniche, il Medioevo era avvertito come la 'vera' storia del paese. Attraverso il riferimento ad alcuni intellettuali, tra i quali Victor Hugo, Jules Michelet, Simon de Sismondi e Charles Baudelaire, Villari dimostra come Viollet-le-Duc sia stato uno dei pochi a intravedere la continuità tra passato e presente, sviluppando una nozione di Medioevo inteso come "il tempo e il luogo" di origine della libertà moderna.

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