The Middle Age in the movie The Name of the Rose
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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2447-2158.i10p180-203Keywords:
Dark Ages, History and cinema, History teaching, Medieval scienceAbstract
In this article, we will discuss the representation of the Middle Age in the movie The Name of the Rose, by Jean-Jacques Annaud. We aim to answer, among other subjects, how the movie represents the relationship between this historic period – and mainly the Church – with the science and knowledge of its own and previous times, and to clarify if the image of the Middle Age as a Dark Age, established by common sense, is questioned or reinforced. The analysis of these questions will be done in a wider debate about adequation of visual media to History transmission, and therefore also as a teaching instrument.
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