Cultura e educação na idade média: aspectos histórico-filosófico-teóricos

Abstract

This article aims to epistemologically ratify the conventional demystification of the Middle Ages as the “Dark Ages”. To this end, culture and education were listed as the main categories of analysis in this historical period. It is a research constructed through literature review in peculiar theoretical references. The deductive method was used, accompanied by a qualitative approach. The article is divided into four topics. The first makes a general exposition of the text. The second debate on cultural and educational aspects in the High Middle Ages. The third discusses the same aspects as in the Early Middle Ages. Finally, the fourth contemplates some judgments of value over all the textual composite. The results demonstrate that, instead of a period of “darkness”, the Middle Ages should be classified as a fertile period in cultural and educational aspects, when school and university systems are founded, legacies that continue to this day.