The Mediaeval Man offers a deep and nuanced portrait of the man of the Middle Ages, examining his worldview, the values that guided his existence, and the social and religious structures in which he was immersed. The work explores central aspects of medieval mentality such as the concept of time, lived space, the role of the body, the relationship with death, and the omnipresence of the sacred in daily life. The medieval man emerges as part of a deeply collective society, in which symbolic and religious thinking permeated every aspect of existence. Daily life was marked by cyclical rhythms and a clear separation between the sacred and the profane, while the imagination was populated by saints, demons, miracles, and visions of the afterlife. Through a careful analysis of historical, literary, and iconographic sources, the book vividly reconstructs the mental universe of a time both distant and influential, offering readers a complex, fascinating, and surprisingly contemporary image of the medieval man.
