Usos do passado: uma análise dos sentidos sobre o “mundo medieval” a partir do audiovisual produzido no século XXI

Abstract

Sustaining itself in the German part of the theory of Didactics of History founded by Jörn Rüsen, which considers that the teaching-learning in history is linked to cultural issues from which the media has influence, that is, learning in history is not only found in formal spaces, but in all social aspects, especially through these media mass media, it is aimed, in this work, to analyze the discourses produced by the XXI century and disseminated through media narratives, referring to the medieval past, from the cut of narratives of greater repercussion, they are: Game of Thrones, Lord of the Ring, Vikings, The Last Kingdom, King Arthur, all environmentalized in the Middle Ages. In this way, the present work also deals with the uses of the past, of how the present uses the past to self-legitimize. A priori, as a form of results, it is observed that these narratives carry discourses contrary to medieval historiography, leading to non-contribution to teaching-learning in history. On the other hand, questions of gender and sexuality (which are emerging issues of the 21st century), for example, are put in a way that the interlocutor naturalizes them as normal in medieval societies and, consequently, using again the concept of Didactics of History , to naturalize them in the present, making possible a greater acceptance of these historically inferior categories.