Publisher's Synopsis
Scholars of Medieval Latin, Romance, and Germanic texts discuss themes and methods concerning text criticism and linguistic-literary comparisons of the European Middle Ages. Research experiences gained in the three disciplinary areas meet in order to achieve a better understanding of complex cultural phenomena, in a time spectrum ranging from antiquity to the contemporary era. This volume aims to offer a field of comparison between medieval philologies, starting from the intersections posed by the historical-textual reality. The result is a reflection on the contribution that philology can make to today's world, as a historical discipline, for the configuration of mental, as well as social and cultural processes. Philology has a fundamental role in the formation of an awareness of the past: through the critical reconstruction of texts and the network of their relationships, it recovers the sense of distance and makes it possible to reconstruct the past in its specificity, imposing reasoning on possible differences between the present and our future.
