Tempo e temporalidades na Idade Média: a Visão de Túndalo (séculos XIV-XV) no ensino de história medieval

Abstract

The Vision of Tundale (14th-15th centuries) is a story of an imaginary journey to the Medieval Beyond which describes the experience of the knight Tundale who learned about the final destinies of souls in the after-death spaces, consisting of Hell, Purgatory and Paradise. Based on the analysis of this narrative, this doctoral dissertation has as its object of study the medieval historical time with the objective of understanding the representations of the Christian temporalities of medieval society and their symbolic and imaginary reflections that built the Medieval Beyond. A Christian future time was projected and it was articulated with the dynamics of earthly life in the medieval period. The story of the knight Tundal presents the temporal pluralities that, from the perspective of the Western Christian Church, was oriented towards the search for eternal salvation. The multiple meanings attributed to time in the Western Middle Ages are fundamental for the Teaching of History, especially for the understanding of the transformations and continuities of medieval times in a long-term perspective. Based on the theme of temporalities in the Middle Ages, the educational product, intended for Basic Education, consists of a time journey with the knight Tundale, who connects the Early Medieval, Medieval, and the Post-Medieval periods. The paradidactic entitled Tundale: on the trails of time aims to provide new meanings and reflections about medieval historical time, through the didactic applicability of the historical source The Vision of Tundale in the educational context.