Past and future of “misplaced” neo-medievalism

Abstract

What does the Middle Ages mean outside Europe, if Europe is the place directly associated with its origin and belonging? What is to be done with a Middle Ages that, following Roberto Schwartz’s well-known term “ideas out of place”, is where it apparently does not belong? What explanation can we consider for this trance of apparent inappropriateness to certain geographies? Neomedievalism is an approach to the Middle Ages taken up after the historical Middle Ages and, in that sense, can be seen as a Middle Ages “out of time”. This article will work from a theoretical approach, with special attention to terminological and conceptual issues, the characteristics and possibilities of neomedievalism in Ibero-America.

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