It can be true, but I want to say more. In fact, when we speak of
psychological or spiritual life, we speak of personal experience,
lived in a precise historical moment by someone. Why that far
experience becomes near? And if it is near, what we can understand by
her, to be useful for our actual historical moment, and for the future?
What's that got to do the Middle Age with the man of two thousand? With
the new Europe Union, with the globalisation, with the our fears after
the 11th September, and with our daily life? I hope you can understand
me. I’ve found that some experiences and some spiritual movements can
be instead very useful, to find again our spirit, materialistic too,
and for our life, often full of media , news and stress. Here begins
my book’s research. And here can begin the “quaestio disputata” . Best
wishes. Claudio Attardi
> medieval-
religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
>
> Just thought I'd add an interesting anecdote. When I was a graduate
> student I had the privilege of doing a year reading course with Giles
> Constable. At one stage, I asked him if he thought that medieval men w
ere
> better adjusted psychologically than we moderns. His reply (inexactly
> remembered) was that psychoanalysis was created to treat modern ills.
>
> Food for thought.
>
> Jeffrey Woolf
> Bar ilan University
>
> On Wed, 31 Jul 2002, Marjorie Greene wrote:
>
> > medieval-
religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
> >
> > Caro Claudio,
> >
> > Your English is better than my Italian! No need to
> > apologize.
> > I share your belief that there are far more
> > similarities between medieval man and modern man than
> > not. This is an area in which I find modern psychology
> > very useful. Med. man had a psyche too! You might find
> > Regine Pernoud's _Pour en finir avec le moyen age_ an
> > interesting read.
> > Best,
> > MG
> > --- "[log in to unmask]" <[log in to unmask]>
> > wrote:
> > > It is possible to speak of the Middle Age man’ s
> > > spirit, as it could be
> > > useful for our spirit? Isn’t out of the history’s
> > > rules? The distance
> > > from an age closed fifty hundred years ago remains
> > > all. But I think
> > > that there is a way to be near for these two ages,
> > > and this is the
> > > spirituality. The spirituality, in fact, isn’t a way
> > > to live far from
> > > the real life, but it is our world – view. She
> > > conditions all our
> > > choices, the smaller also. So men and women’ life of
> > > that far age
> > > begins near, very similar to our life. This idea is
> > > present in my last
> > > book “Dal Medioevo al Duemila” (From Middle Age to
> > > the Two Thousand
> > > year ) and in my web site, but I don’t know if she
> > > can be scientific ,
> > > historical, or only a dream, a hope. But reading
> > > some spirituality
> > > medieval sources, it seems so, really. Best wishes,
> > > and apoligize me
> > > for my english. Claudio Attardi
> > > www.medio-evo.org
> >
> >
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