Martin Nodl

The Medieval World in Us

Trans. Baron Elżbieta
Średniowiecze w nas Średniowiecze w nas
Średniowiecze w nas
Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Gdańskiego, 2019, 302 pp
9788378658481
Language: Polish
Essay, Monograph

Entertaining and instructive reading, which provides an insight into the complex theme of everyday life in the Middle Ages.

In his book, the author contemplates the merely superficial modernity of today’s world. In ten mutually linked essays, he attempts to show that pre-modern man is present within us in virtually every manifestation of everyday behaviour. Almost everything in our “modern” world has pre-modern roots. The pre-modern world, identified in this book with the late Middle Ages, is not the world around us. The world around us has changed irrevocably. However, to this day the pre-modern world remains deep within us. Nevertheless, The Medieval World in Us is not a guide on how to resolve the problems of the modern world. It would, however, undoubtedly like to present a challenge to our conception of historical experience. The book has been shortlisted for the Magnesia Litera prize for non-fiction.

Średniowiecze w nas
Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Gdańskiego, 2019, 302 pp
9788378658481
Language: Polish