Historical fantasy

The rapport of human kind with fantasy is primordial in human being, and the epiphanies are works of this innate, and we can ascertain it in literature of middle age that is stemmed from ancient, a difference is present, stead to be a pagan divine is Cristian, but miracles and other are same. But we must consider that in opinion of George Duby(The thousand year. Religious and common psychology p.85) the monks studied the Latin language on ancient authors; in fact the Latin grammatical was learned on verbal way, but exercitation and translation works were on Latin texts, thereupon the history, this is chronicles are full of references of pagan word and myths, that are Christianized, because the source is pagan. Examples can be the a chronicle(Annals of Saint Benoit sur Loire), that in year 1003 strange and strong inundations, and the birth of a monster that his parents have drowned; I think that it is a history that has took from myth of Narcissus, that tried his image reflected in source of water and he drowned; but the Gospel took some source from ancient myths, because the Apocalypse(Capitol 20)says that an angel has tied the Evil to a thousand years; I think that it has reference to the myth of Kronos, this is time, that Zeus has tied his father Kronos, thereby the gods are immortal: but  it is also Christian source to a dream of Otto III, German imperator, has dreamed the town where is buried Charles Magnus, by now forgotten, and after three days of fast he indicated where is, and after the exhumation  the body was exposed to public, but when Otto dreamed the body he seen Charles Magnus seat on gold throne; the source are to both from Gospel, because the three days of fast are correspondent to three day of resurrection of Christ, and the four evangelist told the resurrection, and the Apocalypse is necessary to the figure of Charles Magnus, because on throne where seat the beheaded, the Apocalypse tells: “And I seen some thrones and they(beheaded) seated on it. Hence the middle age the chronicles has had precise sources, Latin literature and Gospel; often the two source are fused; we must consider also that monopoly of culture was in religious orders, thereupon we can read alone the chronicles that from a side alone, because the common people  was illiterate. Today we should thank the monks and their chronicles because these has told the Middle age and the history of their times.

Alessandro Lusana