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

Before 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 Century”. This period left its unique mark in painting, literature, architecture, sculpture. He presented the world with such prominent figures as St. Francis of Assisian, Bonaventure, Giotto Di Bondone, Dante Aligieri, Andrey Rublev, Theophanes Greek. A thousand years long, which has determined the development of culture for many centuries in advance.
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 recognized artist, not only draws the “cultural landscape” of the Middle Ages, but also analyze the reasons for its formation and influence on subsequent periods.
There are not enough specialists to feel the era because only the works written at that time They 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, the Knight"s novel “Tristan and Isolde”, as well as the most famous treatise of the outstanding theologian and philosopher of the Middle Ages Foma Aquinas - “The sum Theology