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www.ssoar.info From periphery to centre: the image of Europe at the Eastern Border of Europe Şipoş, Sorin (Ed.); Moisa, Gabriel (Ed.); Cepraga, Dan Octavian (Ed.); Brie, Mircea (Ed.); Mateoc, Teodor (Ed.) Veröffentlichungsversion / Published Version Konferenzband / collection Empfohlene Zitierung / Suggested Citation: Şipoş, S., Moisa, G., Cepraga, D. O., Brie, M., & Mateoc, T. (Eds.). (2014). From periphery to centre: the image of Europe at the Eastern Border of Europe. Cluj-Napoca: Ed. Acad. Română. https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0168- ssoar-400284 Nutzungsbedingungen: Terms of use: Dieser Text wird unter einer CC BY Lizenz (Namensnennung) zur This document is made available under a CC BY Licence Verfügung gestellt. Nähere Auskünfte zu den CC-Lizenzen finden (Attribution). For more Information see: Sie hier: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.de Edited by: Sorin §ipo§, Gabriel Moisa, Dan Octavian Cepraga, Mircea Brie, Teodor Mateoc From Periphery to Centre. The Image of Europe at the Eastern Border of Europe Editorial committee: Delia-Maria Radu Roxana Iva^ca Alexandra Bere IonuJ Ciorba Romanian Academy Center for Transylvanian Studies Cluj-Napoca 2014 Descrierea CIP a Bibliotecii Nationale a României From periphery to centre : the image of Europe at the Eastern border of Europe/ Sorin Çipoç, Gabriel Moisa, Dan Octavian Cepraga, Mircea Brie (ed.). - Cluj-Napoca : Editura Academia Românâ. Centrul de Studii Transilvane, 2014 ISBN 978-973-7784-97-1 I. Çipoç, Sorin (ed.) II. Moisa, Gabriel (ed.) III. Cepraga, Dan Octavian (ed.) IV. Brie, Mircea (ed.) 930 Volume published with the support of Bihor County Council The volume gathers the papers presented at the international symposium From Periphery to Centre. The Image o f Europe at the Eastern Border o f Europe, Oradea, June 4-8, 2013 The symposium was part of Jean Monnet Programme . C o n t e n t s Sorin §IPO§, Dan Octavian CEPRAGA, From Periphery to Centre. The Image o f Europe at the Eastern Border o f Europe ................................ 5 I. PERIPHERY VIEWED FROM THE CENTRE.................................. 13 Lorenzo RENZI, «Terra Romena»................................................................15 Ion Alexandru MIZGAN, The Crusades - Cause o f Tension between Eastern and Western Europe ........................................................................... 21 Florin DOBREI, Transylvanian “Schismatics”, “Heretics” and “Infidels” in the Vision o f 13th-16th Century Catholic Europe ...................................... 47 Ioan-Aurel POP, 16th Century Venetian Bailiffs’ Reports on Realities in the Ottoman Em pire .....................................................................................61 Ion EREMIA, A False Theory Still Persists at the Eastern Border o f Latinity ..76 Delia-Maria RADU, From Centre to the Periphery and the Other Way Round ........................................................................................................ 88 Teodor MATEOC, Identity and Race. The Problem o f Otherness in Contemporary Cultural Studies .......................................................................96 II. SELF-IMAGES AT EUROPE’S EASTERN BORDERS................. 105 Nicolae EDROIU, The Borders - Reality and Concept .............................. 107 Serban TURCU§, Ai confini della Cristianita. Il documento “fondazionale” della citta di Oradea (1113). Interpretazioni ecclesiologiche ed onomastiche .. 113 Florin SFRENGEU, An Image o f the Society in North-Western Romania during the 10th-11th Centuries A .D ..................................................................212 Mihai GEORGIJA, The Ennoblement o f the Calvinist Romanian Priests at the Middle o f the 17th Century in Transylvania ........................................ 133 Sorin §IPO§, Foreign Travellers in the Romanian Space and Border Symbolism (1797-1810) ................................................................................... 141 Mircea BRIE, Ethnicity and Politics in the Romanian Space. The Case of North-Western Transylvania ........................................................................... 158 Mihai DRECIN, Delia CORA, Sui rumeni e sugli altri (1910 - 1939). Immagini di Sacele, della Basarabia, dell ’Europa Centrale nella memorialistica e nella corrispondenza del docente universitario Victor Jinga.. 171 Anca OLTEAN, Incursions in the History o f Jews from Central and Eastern Europe (19th Century-1945).............................................................. 181 Gabriel MOISA, Between Exclusion and Acceptance. The Perception of Historian Gheorghe I. Bratianu in Communist Romania ............................ 194 III. EUROPEAN IDENTITIES....................................................................203 Sever DUMITRA§CU, European Carpathians Vs. Marginal Carpathians .. 205 Ovidiu MURE§AN, Projects and Attempts for the European Aggregation in the Middle Ages and at the Beginning o f the Modern Period .................. 209 Radu Rominasu, European Images and Policies Reflected in the Modernization Process o f the Romanian Extra-Carpathian Space (18th-19th Century) ............217 Federico DONATIELLO, L ’opera italiana tra le selve dei Carpazi: la traduzione di Heliade Radulescu della Norma di Felice Romani ................ 233 Stelian NISTOR, Bihar County - Geographical Realities Reflected in Monographic Works from the End o f 19th - Beginning o f 20th Century ...... 247 Ioan DERSIDAN, An Algorithm in Mitteleuropa ...................................... 255 Anarela CHI§ (MESE§AN), Ion ZAINEA, The European Identity of the Romanian E xile ..........................................................................................261 Dana SALA, “Cartea §oaptelor” by Varujan Vosganian: the Palimpsest o f Collective M em ory .......................................................................................272 Viorel BOLDUMA, Relations o f the Republic o f Moldova with the European Union between 2009-2013: Achievements, Progress and Prospects ...........281 Antonio FAUR, Considerations on European Identity. An Investigation among Students in History at the University o f Oradea (Year 2013) ......... 287 F r o m P e r ip h e r y t o C e n t r e . T h e Im a g e o f E u r o p e a t t h e E a s t e r n B o r d e r o f E u r o p e Sorin SIPOS Dan Octavian CEpRagA I. The awareness of the space in the Eastern part of the continent had already occurred in certain Western circles, and their interest increased progressively over time. The transition from “Little” to “Great Europe” was about to be made, and the Enlightenment, with its appetite for exotic realities, with its idea of “citizen of the universe”, with its cosmopolitan discourse, would provide a suitable framework in this sense. Since the end of the seventeenth century more people had become interested in learning about the spaces at the periphery of the civilized world, where economic, cultural and human transfers were produced. “Now - wrote Paul Hazard - Italians had their taste for travel revived; and the French were as restless as quicksilver”1. “The German we refer to - added Paul Hazard - spared no effort: he climbed the mountains to the top; he followed rivers from the source to their mouths [...], he visited, taking notes, churches, monasteries, abbeys, public squares, town halls, aqueducts, fortresses, arsenals. [...] For the British, the journey was a complement to their education; the young noblemen fresh out of Oxford and Cambridge, crammed with guineas and accompanied by a wise preceptor, crossed the Strait and began the great tournament”2. The historians, the art historians and the specialists in Anglo Saxon literature associated the years 1680-1780 with the golden years of the great tour3. A large number of writings or objects preserved advocate the importance of this ritual by which young men from the greatest families leave for three years on the major roads of Europe in the company of a preceptor or with other people in their service4. Prior to processing the information from the memoirs, diaries, reports or correspondence of the foreign travellers, we intend to clarify some issues related to the research methodology. First, we would like to specify the number of those who travelled in Eastern Europe, and especially in the Romanian space, and left 1 Paul Hazard, Criza con§tiin{ei europene 1680-1715. Traducere Sanda §ora. Prefatä Romul Munteanu, Bucureçti, 1973, p. 5. 2 Ibidem, p. 6. 3 Gilles Bertrand, Voyager dans l’Europe des années 1680-1780, in Les circulations internationales en Europe, années 1680- années 1780. Sous la direction de Pierre-Yves Beaurepaire et Pierrick Pourchasse, Rennes, 2010, p. 243. 4 Ibidem. 5 From Periphery to Centre documentary records. Both the number of those who left notes and the quality of the records on the Romanian territory are important. If a certain piece of information is recorded by several authors, for example the quality of the communication pathways, the historian may take it into consideration and compare it at the end with other internal documentary sources to check the reliability of the information. A second problem that we address is to establish the formation of the traveller, the purposes of the travel and the direction from which he came to the Romanian Principalities. Why is the intellectual formation of the traveller important? It is important because the traveller who holds degrees in a particular area can make pertinent, diverse comments, but more importantly, critical