Middle Ages: a large book of history, art, literature

In front of you is the “Big Book of the Middle Ages”, which contains the works of famous artists, history and literature in order to shed light on the so -called “Dark Ages”. This period left its unique mark in painting, literature, architecture, sculpture. He presented the world with such prominent figures as St. Francis of Assisian, Bonavventure, Giotto di Bondone, Dante Aligeri, Andrei Rublev, Theophanes Greek. A thousand years long, which has determined the development of culture for many centuries ahead.

Natalya Ivanovna Basovskaya, Doctor of Historical Sciences, will talk about the most significant events through the biography of the brightest representatives of the era. Paola Volkova, an art critic and a recognized artist, not only draws the “cultural landscape” of the Middle Ages, but also analyzes the reasons for its formation and influence on subsequent periods.

There are not enough experts of specialists to feel the era because only the works written at that time are able to convey all the shades, all the identity of the distant period, which is why several original works are included in the collection: “Divine comedy” by Dante Aligieri, Knight The novel "Tristan and Isolda", as well as the most famous treatise of the outstanding theologian and philosopher of the Middle Ages of Thomas Aquinas - "Sum of Theology".