Kulturni posrednici i kulturni transferi u ranom novom vijeku – Janez Vajkard Valvasor i Pavao Ritter Vitezović
Cultural Mediators and Cultural Transfers in the Early Modern Period – Janez Vajkard Valvasor and Pavao Ritter Vitezović

Author(s): Zrinka Blažević
Subject(s): Cultural history, 17th Century, 18th Century
Published by: Hrvatski institut za povijest
Keywords: Janez Vajkard Valvasor; Pavao Ritter Vitezović; cultural mediators; cultural transfers; the 17th century;
Summary/Abstract: This paper focuses on the transcultural analysis of the features and modalities of multi-layered and multi-directional cultural transfers exercised by two famous 17th-century Slovenian and Croatian cultural mediators: Janez Vajkard Valvasor (1641-1693) and Pavao Ritter Vitezović (1652-1713). Mediation practices of Valvasor and Vitezović are examined on the few interrelated levels: vertically, as creative transfers of the common European cultural models into the domain of the local culture, and horizontally, as interactive exchanges of the cultural patterns on the level of the domicile Slovenian and Croatian cultures respectively. Since Valvasor and Vitezović communicated directly as close collaborators and friends, their creative interaction was realized in the personal, professional and intellectual spheres. Therefore, its effects are analyzed on the communicative and intertextual levels. In conclusion, the results of the transcultural analysis suggest that early modern Slovenian and Croatian cultures were not closed and autarchic domains, but transitional zones, i.e. open and fluctuating spaces of exchanges.

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