The sunset of the Middle Ages [re-upload]

One a little bit more historiographical video than the usual (even if not in detail of the individual works or authors), relative to the concept of "end" of the Middle Ages, or at least of transformation of European society and culture from the XIV-XIV centuries into something different from the previous period, which eventually progressively "merged" with that of the Modern Age. A generalization that therefore requires a good critical dose and at the same time some cornerstones from which to start.

The latter are specifically the demographic collapse (and all its consequences) of Europe in the mid-XIV century due to the Black Plague, and a phenomenon only apparently less structural, such as the birth of Humanism and the Renaissance. In this monologue I quite modestly try to reconcile the various historiographical currents showing how we can actually talk about crisis and/or rebirth for these final centuries of the Middle Ages and how this allows us to infer the presence of a (certainly not net) caesura with the previous world.

We talk of ways of thinking about the world, climate change, how the pandemic of the XIV century actually spread and it was perceived by people of that time and how much humanism was part, all in all, of an older tradition than that conventionally inaugurated by Francesco Petrarca and how a strong conscience and admiration towards the classical world already existed throughout all the Medieval world, which would have been eventually crystallized by the Renaissance canons.