Storia del medioevo cristiano

The essay explores Ernesto Buonaiuti’s interest in the Middle Ages in the perspective of its fortune. It is read through the prism of Raffaello Morghen’s best-known work, that Medioevo cristiano which appeared in 1951 and which Morghen himself ascribed to the magisterium of the Roman priest. The Medioevo cristiano should be interpreted in light of the long history of the myth of a “Christian Middle Ages”, studied by Giovanni Miccoli. The essay focuses first on how Buonaiuti sought to become a scholar of medieval history, then on the relationship between Buonaiuti, Morghen and Miccoli, through the filter of research on the Gregorian age.