The Balkan Cultural Paradigm in 4th–13th Centuries: an Attempt at Definition

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Pages: 237-240

Abstract:

The polytropy of Balkan history did not lead, however to a neutral cultural diversity, but to a surplus of variety, to a beneficial stromatic character. The history of Balkan provinces is the history of rerouting and of crises of destiny that was too hard to control by the imperial institution. In the approach of defining the Balkan cultural matrix it seems more to the point to configure the archetypes of a collective unconscious with a decisive contribution on the phenomenology of the Balkan space, dominated by the psychology of the Renaissance. In the process of defining the Balkan cultural matrix, one must mark the stage of mythical geography, the stage of religious homogenization through Christianization, the stage of real geography, with the transient ethnic aspect of the barbarian attacks, the resorting to Hellenism.

Keywords:

polytropy, stromatic character, psychology of the Renaissance, religious homogenization

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