О ИСТОРИЈИ У СРЕДЊЕМ ВИЈЕКУ И ИСТОРИЈИ СРЕДЊЕГ ВИЈЕКА
ON HISTORY IN THE MIDDLE AGES AND THE HISTORY OF THE MIDDLE AGES

Summary/Abstract: Some best known standpoints on the understanding of history in the Middle Ages given in a popular way speak about the time when History has neither been exempted as a separate science nor included in the system of so-called »Seven Liberal Arts«, when it has been treated as a part of Rhetorics, that is to say Grammar; and when it has been expected from it to educate, in an appropriate manner, in the spirit of obedience to God and the rulling class, to reveal in a number of examples God’s perfection arid God’s absolute dominance over the human beings. At the time the term »the Middle Ages« was not even coined yet, and the human1 past was divided into four, instead of three, big periods, and a fictitious comprehension about the eternity of the long time gone Roman Empire, which, so to speak, had been passed from the Romans onto the Germans (transiatio imperii), was duly supported.

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