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.