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The Image Of The Past In Ciro Spontone’S ‘Historia Della Transilvania’

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  • Evgeny A. Khvalkov

    (National Research University Higher School of Economics)

  • Feliks E. Levin

    (National Research University Higher School of Economics)

  • Alena D. Kuznetsova

    (National Research University Higher School of Economics)

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

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  • Evgeny A. Khvalkov & Feliks E. Levin & Alena D. Kuznetsova, 2021. "The Image Of The Past In Ciro Spontone’S ‘Historia Della Transilvania’," HSE Working papers WP BRP 208HUM/2021, National Research University Higher School of Economics.
    • Handle: RePEc:hig:wpaper:208/hum/2021
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    Keywords

    Early Modern Period; 16-17th centuries; the Other; discourse; image of the past; Europe; periphery; Transylvania; Spontone; early modern ethnography.;
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