Misiune spirituală şi competiţie politică: Imperiul creştin şi Poporul Ales (I): succesiunea Romei şi tentaţia unităţii
Spiritual Mission and Political Competition: The Christian Empire and the Chosen People (I): The Succession of Rome and the Temptation of Unity

Summary/Abstract: The myths generated by the very historiography involved expressis verbis in the effort to demystify the past has identified the Middle Ages and mainly its first centuries with a time of disintegration of institutions that had ensured political stability and cultural progress during the classical Greco- Roman civilization. If frecvent use of these perceptions makes it necessary to approach them in researches dedicated to the millennium of history that unites the fall of the Western Roman Empire with the peak of reflection practiced by the authors of Italian and Nordic humanism, the incompatibility between any dogmatism and the question essential to any endeavor towards knowledge serve as a premise for a timely updating of the political concepts with which the political and intellectual elites of the Middle Ages operated at various times during this vast chronological interval, in order to demonstrate the importance of their conclusions and options for defining concepts and manifesting community, ethnic and social loyalties. The benefits of deepening these aspects, known from the perspective of succession of facts, but less considered in relation to long-term developments, are to highlight the capacity of a society born of the osmosis generated by the great migrations from various times during the first Christian millennium to assimilate concepts with plurivalent meanings for the classical world and to adapt them to the objectives of their own agenda, but also the dynamism of the power structures built by the Christian nations, under political and spiritual inspiration.

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