ROMANIAN RELIGION AND CUSTOMS IN THE MIDDLE OF THE 19TH CENTURY IN THE VISION OF FOREIGN TRAVELERS
ROMANIAN RELIGION AND CUSTOMS IN THE MIDDLE OF THE 19TH CENTURY IN THE VISION OF FOREIGN TRAVELERS

Summary/Abstract: The notes of foreign travelers represent a major source of interest for thereconstruction of Romanian society in the middle of the nineteenth century.Although they were not "professional" historians, most often curiosity ordiplomatic missions brought them to these lands, their visits led them to numerouspolitical, economic, cultural and psychological observations.Abundance oftravelogues and testimonies on the Romanian Lands of this period represents theconsequence of the international reactivation of the “oriental problem” and of theintensification of the struggle for emancipation and national liberation of thepeoples of the Balkans. of the culture from which they came, foreign travelersprojected, consciously or not, their own light on the realities they presented. In noother historical source will we find anything more picturesque and full of life thanin the events and descriptions presented by them.

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