medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
The following excerpt is from Joan Ann H. Moran Cruz, and Richard Gerberding, _Medieval Worlds: An Introduction to European History, 300-1492," (Boston, 2004), p. 2
"The term Middle Ages was coined in Latin, Medium Aevum, by Christoph Keller, a German professor, in 1688. It was used to describe the supposedly somber and Gothic age between the glorious ancient period and the resplendant rebirth of classical ideals in the Renaissance."
Page 213 of the same textbook describes the origins of the idea of the Dark Ages: "The idea of a 'Dark Age' was an intellectual construct crafted by Renaissance thinkers. In the 1340s, Francesco Petrarch (1304-1374) was the first to characterize the times following Rome's declien as a period of tenebrae (darkness, shadow)."
Alan Zola
Ph.D. Candidate
Loyola University Chicago
>>> CARLOS <[log in to unmask]> 07/12/07 1:53 PM >>>
medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Dear listmembers:
I wonder if some of you remember who was the Italian humanist who
coined the term "middle ages".
Thanks for any clue!
Carlos
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