medieval beauty

This book is Eco's work on medieval aesthetic theory, aesthetic experience and artistic practice. The beauty of the Middle Ages in Eco's works presents a self-contained vitality. It inherits the traditions of ancient Greece and Rome, and quietly evolves in the dogmatic ideological environment until it develops a mature and critical concept system, which is a reflection of the modern inheritance. Traditions make corrections based on a medieval perspective.

Eco's discourse draws on theological, poetic, mystic, and Platonist trends from medieval texts, and the works of art he discusses include churches, sculpture, jewelry, paintings, music, and manuscripts. After Eco's interpretation and interpretation, medieval aesthetic thoughts and works of art overflowed with a primitive and unique sense of beauty, and its meticulousness and universality can inspire fresh insights in us even today.

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The Middle Ages is the century of cathedrals, the tree of God, with thousands of branches flying in the sky, and thousands of leaves; The words stand silently on the brilliant parchment. Eco lingers in churches and castles, turns over the dusty pages, and writes about medieval art, leading readers into the sanctuary for a glimpse of the divine light of art.

——Fan Jingzhong, professor of China Academy of Art

Eco's "Beauty in the Middle Ages" leads readers to get out of two common misunderstandings: first, there is no aesthetics in the Middle Ages;

——Shen Yubing, Distinguished Professor of Fudan University, Art History and Aesthetics Scholar

A erudite like Eco also has his starting point, which is medieval aesthetics. He objected to considering the Middle Ages as a "period of ignorance" and regarded it as the crucible of modern European civilization. The beauty of numbers in Pythagoreanism, the beauty of humanity in the Carolingian Renaissance, the beauty of order in Ariugena, and until Thomas Aquinas established a huge system of medieval scholastic aesthetics. This is the second book after the doctoral dissertation of the author Eco. He laughed at himself: "I told a story in a clumsy way as a young scholar, but even today, I still believe in this story."——Shi Zhi Today, we still believe in Eco.

——Ma Ling, professor of Fudan University, book reviewer, and leader of Douban.com's Eco Group

In a lighthearted work that remains relevant to us today, Eco clearly had a love of medieval art.

—Robert Taylor, Book Review Columnist, Boston Globe

If you are a reader who wants to understand the aesthetics of the Middle Ages, you will find no book on the market more measured, more beautiful, more subtle, and more inspiring than Eco's work.

—AC Barrett, book reviewer, Art Monthly