La politica di oggi alle prese con barbari e crociati

Who strives today the Middle Ages? Everyone.
The current policy uses it as a mine to extract examples and models considered useful to understand the present. Identified with the "dark ages," the Middle Ages is presented as a perfect model to explain the "new barbarians", the "clash of civilizations" and the terror that our world is about to end. Conversely, if considered as the time of knights and heroic origins, the Middle Ages takes on a mythic function for many political groups and organized communities, that use it to assert its original identity.
This way to actualize the Middle Ages, often a real invention of tradition, is known as "medievalism". Its analysis is a new and unusual key to read the contemporary society and its trends.
From political activism to new age amusement, from festivals and tournaments to the  Catholic identity traditionalism, to the recalls to the origins of a united Europe and to the mythology of the Lega Nord, Tommaso di Carpegna offers, with the tools of the medievalist but with the gaze to the present, an exciting path that begins from the Sixties and reaches the dramatic days of the attacks in Norway by the 'Templar' Breivik.