A very accurate symbolic representation of the way in which the intellectual as a social role expresses himself in relation to other estates within the medieval world is the exordial miniature of a Milanese Codex the ms.
Mianda Cioba amp Anca Crivat.
As a social figure dedicated exclusively to the discovery of truth and the ultimate knowledge the intellectual is to be placed in a equidistant position with respect of all other categories at the heart of a system of theological and philosophical values and in a sense coincident with the project doubly oriented but unified as a mean of salvation of Sant Thomas Aquinas.
A figure defined by the duty to know and to think for the benefit of and perhaps instead of a whole community for which the act of thinking freely and the exercise of reason constitute most of the time a risky and unspeakable adventure.
The symbolism of the image refers not only to the ersification of society and the recognition of this ersity as a defining vision of human community it also casts a special light on the position of the intellectual as a public dignity as a figure of authority above the official foci of authority within the medieval social structure. 1400 preserving petrarch s moral treatise De remediis utriusque Fortunae.
Biblioteca Nationale Braidense AD XIII 30 ca.
A very accurate symbolic representation of the way in which the intellectual as a social role expresses himself in relation to other estates within the medieval world is the exordial miniature of a Milanese Codex the ms
