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- Title
Between Humanism and Pre-Enlightenment Dimitrie Cantemir and His Work: Historiographic Controversies.
- Authors
SOPORAN, FLORIAN DUMITRU
- Abstract
The multi-faceted personality of this Romanian prince, descended from a modest family, who achieved success by virtue of his own merits, became one of the foremost connoisseurs of the Islamic civilization and participated in the elaboration of Tsar Peter the Great's reform policies, has inspired vivid historiographic debates, concerned especially with his inclusion among the representatives of late Romanian Humanism or among the exponents of Southeast European pre-Enlightenment. His career, built at the crossroads between the Orthodox world, Islamic alterity, and the German historical-geographic school for the study of states, justifies the classification of his work as part of this latter cultural movement, illustrated to the fullest in terms of the Romanian historical writing by the representatives of the Transylvanian School.
- Subjects
PETER I, Emperor of Russia, 1672-1725; HISTORIOGRAPHY; HUMANISM; OTHER (Philosophy); ROMANIANS; EXPONENTS; ISLAMIC civilization; CULTURAL movements
- Publication
Transylvanian Review, 2023, Vol 32, Issue 3, p68
- ISSN
1221-1249
- Publication type
Article