Εξειδίκευση τύπου :	Άρθρο σε επιστημονικό περιοδικό
Τίτλος:	'Balkan Mentality’: history, legend, imagination
Δημιουργός/Συγγραφέας:	[EL] Κιτρομηλίδης, Πασχάλης[EN] Kitromilides, Paschalis
Εκδότης:	John Wiley & Sons, Inc
Ημερομηνία:	1996
Γλώσσα:	Αγγλικά
ISSN:	1354-5078
DOI:	10.1111/j.1354-5078.1996.00163.x
Περίληψη:	In this article I attempt to do two things. First I consider in what sense it could be reasonable to talk of a ‘Balkan mentality’, shared across national divisions by all peoples in Southeastern Europe. I argue among other things that nationalism and its impact on culture and scholarship has been a major stumbling block for the conceptualisation of a shared ‘Balkan mentality’. Secondly, I go on to examine one possible context in which a shared mentality could be said to have existed among the Orthodox Christians in the Balkans. I suggest that such a context could be located in the pre-nationalist Balkan society of the eighteenth century, a period in which the region was politically united by Ottoman rule. To illustrate the content of the mental outlook shared by the Balkan Orthodox in the eighteenth century I examine the autobiographical writings of three major authors, one writing in Greek (Caisarios Depontes), one in Bulgarian (Sofroni Vračanski) and one in Serbian (Matija Nenadović). I identify the shared mental elements reflected in their texts and point out how the transition to a national self-conception taking place at the turn of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in the Balkans, marked the end of this shared ‘Balkan mentality’. The study is thus an exploration in the ‘prehistory’, as it were, of nationalism in the Balkans, an exploration which also looks at the symbolic origins nationalism in the region as reflected in the texts of two of the three authors.
Τίτλος πηγής δημοσίευσης:	Nations and Nationalism
Τόμος/Κεφάλαιο:	2
Σελίδες:	163–191
Θεματική Κατηγορία:	[EL] Θρησκεία[EN] Religion (General) [EL] Ισλάμ[EN] Islam [EL] Ιουδαϊσμός[EN] Judaism [EL] Ιστορία[EN] History [EL] Κοινωνιολογία[EN] Sociology
Λέξεις-Κλειδιά:	Balkan mentality Shared mentality Nationalism Historical study Ottoman rule Orthodox Christians Enlightenment Review Political Institutions and public administration Orthodox Eastern Church
Τοπική Κάλυψη:	Europe Balkans Balkan Peninsula
Χρονική Κάλυψη:	18th century-
Κάτοχος πνευματικών δικαιωμάτων:	© ASEN/Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 1996
Ηλεκτρονική διεύθυνση περιοδικού (link) :	http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/%28ISSN%291469-8129
Σημειώσεις:	The fulltext of this aricle is available at WILEY Online Library at the address: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1354-5078.1996.00163.x/pdf This article has been published in the journal Nations and Nationalism, [© ASEN/Blackwell Publishing Ltd]. The definitive version is available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1354-5078.1996.00163.x
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