The concept of 'Latinitas'. A diachronic approach

Autor: Petre Gheorghe BÂRLEA
Jazyk: German<br />English<br />Spanish; Castilian<br />French<br />Italian<br />Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan
Rok vydání: 2019
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Zdroj: Diversitate si Identitate Culturala in Europa, Vol 16/2, Iss 2019, Pp 57-68 (2019)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2067-0931
Popis: Today, we find it strange to read in history treaties that “The Romans fought wars against the Latins”, as, in the paradigm of our general knowledge, the two entities are one and the same. In reality, the concept of “Latinity” overlapped the concept of “Romanness” only later in history and only partially. Each of the two terms gained different meanings across history and their intersection took on complex forms marked by different manifestation perspectives: geographic-historic; political-military; legal-administrative; linguistic-stylistic; identity-cultural and anthropologic. In the following pages, we propose the creation of an inventory of these perspectives, which are definitory for the concept of “Latinity”.
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