30/06/2026 15:30
- 16:30
HALL: Pola - A203
Contact:
Garzaniti M.
Chair:
Kontouma V.
authorAMC:
Makrides V.
Speaker:
Chentsova V.,
Garzaniti M.
This volume, fruit of a Franco-Italian-German project, was developed during a series of seminars held at the Italian-German Centre for European Dialogue Villa Vigoni (2019-2022) and at the Fondation des Treilles (2023) with the participation of fifteen scholars. Thanks to a comparative and interdisciplinary approach, moving away from a strictly Western perspective and looking at the Christian East in its internal dynamics, the volume focuses on the extraordinary effort of different communities, often in contexts dominated by other religions or characterised by a plurality of confessions (Christian and non-Christian), to redefine their own tradition and linguistic identity, writing an important page in the history of the Republic of Letters. By studying biographical paths, languages of communication, and forms of worship and devotion dating back to different times and areas, and interpreting these micro-histories within a more complex puzzle, the various contributions illustrate a colourful panorama of cultural relations and exchanges, in which Eastern Christians played an active part, in a context in which the process of confessionalisation was consolidating. Their work reveals both an awareness of belonging to ancient traditions, which the West yearned to know and make its own, and a drive to modernise their own traditions, in dialogue with Western culture. These cultural relations and exchanges emerge in the formation of Eastern Christians in the West, as well as through mobility or simply long-distance relationships with exponents of the Republic of Letters. However, the effort to update and modernise was accompanied by a desire to rediscover the most authentic roots of their traditions, with unprecedented developments, even going so far as to reinvent and renew them.
