The Medievalist who taught us how to spot a Fascist

Umberto Eco, medievalist, semiotician, cultural critic

A new piece I wrote for the great folks at medievalists.net: Umberto Eco wasn’t just the author of The Name of the Rose—he was a medievalist who turned his deep knowledge of the past into a sharp warning about his present. His writings reveal how the symbols and rhetoric of the Middle Ages can be twisted to serve modern ideologies. READ HERE

Umberto Eco, How to Spot a Fascist. Translated from the Italian by Richard Dixon and Alastair McEwen. London: Harvill Secker, 2020.