The past in the middle ages |
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| Institution: | 1. Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States;2. Aeolis Research, Pasadena, CA, United States;1. MPG Ranch, Florence, MT 59833, USA;2. Department of Geosciences, University of Montana 59801, USA;1. Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Urumqi 830011, China;2. College of Resources and Environmental Sciences, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China;3. Urat Desert-Grassland Research Station, Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources, CAS, Lanzhou 730000, China;4. University of the CAS, Beijing 100039, China;5. The Sustainable Soils and Grassland Systems Department, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden AL5 2JQ, UK |
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| Abstract: | In spite of the great variety of historical writing in the middle ages it has often been maintained that certain attitudes to the past were held in common between 500 and 1500 A.D. A sort of medieval vision of the past has been conjured up which is alleged to have been providential, if not apocalyptic, universalizing, Christocentric and strongly periodized. Medieval ideas about the past, as expressed in a handful of well-known writers, including Bede, Caffaro, Otto of Freising, Matthew Paris and Ranulph Higden, are considered here particularly with reference to the structure of the past, namely how, if at all, it was thought of as divided into periods, and its content. God's role in human history, it is argued, was neglected in practice; it was not the Christian Church which provided the medieval ‘universal’ historian with his main subject matter, but classical Rome; it was Rome, too, which was his inspiration and supplied his models. |
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