中世纪主义的起源与流变

The Origins and Evolvements of Medievalism

从词源学角度来看,“中世纪主义”(medievalism)是从“中世纪的”(medieval)一词衍生而来。从语义学角度来看,“中世纪主义”并不是一个新词,莱斯利·沃克曼赋予了其新的内涵,中世纪主义是创造中世纪的持续进程,一切后中世纪对中世纪的研究、阐释、建构和运用等都可以被称之为中世纪主义。中世纪主义作为一种思潮,始于中世纪结束,一直延续至今。对这种思潮的研究始于20世纪70年代,经过近半个世纪的发展,中世纪主义研究已经成为西方重要的学术研究领域之一。不过,对其展开系统化和理论化研究仍面临着概念界定不清、研究理论不完善等诸多困难和挑战。

Etymologically speaking, medievalism was derived from the word medieval.In terms of semantics, “medievalism” is not a new word.Leslie Workman gave it a new connotation.While medievalism is the continuous process of creating the Middle Ages, all post-medieval research, interpretation, construction and application of the Middle Ages can be called medievalism.Medievalism, as a trend of thought, began at the end of the Middle Ages and has continued to this day.The research on this trend of thought started in the 1970s, and after nearly half a century’s development, medievalism has become one of the important academic research fields in the West.However, the systematic and theoretical research on medievalism still faces many difficulties and challenges, such as unclear definition and imperfect research theory.