THE IMAGE OF THE PAST IN CIRO SPONTONE’S ‘HISTORIA DELLA TRANSILVANIA’

Evgeny Khvalkov (), Feliks Levin () and Alena Kuznetsova ()
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Evgeny Khvalkov: National Research University Higher School of Economics
Feliks Levin: National Research University Higher School of Economics
Alena Kuznetsova: National Research University Higher School of Economics

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Abstract: This paper is focused on the image of the past of the Other in the early modern European writings as exemplified by Italian discourse about Transylvania in the narrative by Ciro Spontone. The article analyzes the use of such categories as “antiquity" and “past" applied to the territory and people in Transylvania. The examination of discourses on people`s origin has demonstrated that references to the past were instrumentalized to create cultural hierarchies from the most civilized Saxons to ultimate barbarians Tatars. For this Spontone mainly used two intellectual frameworks, namely, the Roman antiquity, associated with civility, and Scythian origin

Keywords: Early Modern Period; 16-17th centuries; the Other; discourse; image of the past; Europe; periphery; Transylvania; Spontone; early modern ethnography. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Z (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 27 pages
Date: 2021
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Published in WP BRP Series: Humanities / HUM, December 2021, pages 27

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