The Hegelian conception of the roman in the Middle Ages

Abstract

In the introduction to the text Lessons on Aesthetics (2021), Hegel condenses the discussions faced by the reflexive development aimed at fixing the philosophical and scientific foundations of his aesthetic lessons. Therefore, the proviso is that, not the entire work will be addressed, but the segment enunciated in the title, in the same way that the text will be chosen and not the abundant bibliography of this work. Now, to access what the philosopher poses, we take as a reference the Song of mine Cid, a key piece of medieval Castilian literature whose correlate will allow us to understand the romantic medieval conception of the Middle Ages that we should not confuse with the romanticisms of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It is noted that there will be no relations with other medieval arts such as music, architecture, sculpture and dance since the center of this work is the roman, sung in the medieval poetic narratives.