Proceedings of the 10th International Academic Conference on Humanities and Social Sciences
Year: 2024
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An Integrative Model of Cultural Resistance, Resilience and Networking in Southeastern Europe
Valeriu Mihai Pănoiu
ABSTRACT:
Striving to defend their common national identity long before they became one united nation, Romanian late medieval state organisations spreading along the Carpathian Mountains, the Danube River and the Black Sea Coast offer a model of intercultural resilience. Descendants of the Roman Empire, influenced by the Byzantine Empire and Slavic migrations, but continuing to speak a Romance language, Romanians gave up the Cyrillic alphabet not before the 19th century, printed books in Latin, Greek or Arabic, educated their noblemen in Poland, Italy, the Ottoman Empire, founded schools run by Greek tutors, held close relationships to Jerusalem and shaped their literary language through the work of a scholar of Georgian descent. In reverse, Romanian personalities reached the highest ranks in the academic and diplomatic European worlds: Nicolae Milescu was sent by the tsar Alexis of Russia as a messenger to China (1675), Dimitrie Cantemir was accepted as a member of the Berlin Academy (1714) for writing a book on the history of the Ottoman Empire, Antioh Cantemir (Dimitrie’s son) became ambassador to London and Paris on behalf of the Russian Empire (starting 1731). This presentation aims at a diachronic approach of the linguistic and cultural interferences in a south-eastern European land, based on historical and textual evidence at European and Oriental crossroads within the frame of the mentalities of the 16th – 18th centuries.
keywords: intercultural, medieval, history, diplomacy, mentalities