A cultura política no medievo: noções de poder no manuscrito Visão de Túndalo e poema Divina Comédia e sua aplicabilidade no Ensino de História

Abstract

The present work seeks to discuss the Political Culture in the Middle Ages, having as main thread the New Political History for analysis and use of the sources Vision of Tundal and Divine Comedy. In order to fulfill this task and still Problematize it with the Teaching of History, we decided to divide the debate into an introduction focused on documents that govern the Teaching of History, as well as Historiographies that exerted and exert influence on textbooks. While the other part is directed to insert the two primary sources in the dimension of the New Political History and Medieval Political Culture. Finally, the third part of this work will analyze the medieval sources and their notions of power. The Vision of Tundal is a narrative that is configured as an imaginary journey and tells the experience of travel to the Afterlife made by a sinful knight. This account was written in 1149 by an Irish monk named Marcus, who lived at the time of the 12th century Papal Reformation. The Divine Comedy is a poem dating from the first two decades of the 14th century, in which the fictional journey of Dante is narrated, literary persona of the Florentine Dante Alighieri (1265-1321). The writings in question are loaded with political messages that are exemplified through spaces, characters and dialogues contained in the narratives. In addition, these works were written in the regions of Germania and Italy, spaces that were the scene of intense conflicts and power disputes in the Medieval West between the 12th and 14th centuries.