ȊNVĂŢĂTURILE LUI NEAGOE BASARAB CĂTRE FIUL SĂU THEODOSIE ŞI BIZANŢUL DUPĂ BIZANŢ

Porfirie Pescaru

Universitatea din Bucureşti

Abstract

Ȋnvăţăturile lui Neagoe Basarab către fiul său Theodosie (The teachings of Neagoe Basarab to his son Theodosius) and Byzantium after Byzantium

The study problematizes the concepts of humanist Renaissance and Byzantine Renaissance, in order to demonstrate the need for a re-reading of Neagoe Basarab's work, as a representative text for the continuity of the Byzantine Christian model, otherwise called by Nicolae Iorga – Byzantium after Byzantium. Therefore, the study argues that the political-cultural vision and the religious commitment of Neagoe Basarab decisively participate in the transfer of the civilizational center from Constantinople – to the Orthodox communities and countries, and to its multiplication in the area of Eastern Christianity. Neagoe Basarab's text, in its entirety, is thought in such a way as to affirm and re-affirm the Christian vision of existence, the unbroken perpetuity of the evangelical teaching and patristic wisdom from the original Christianity.

Keywords

Christianity Orthodox Byzantine Renaissance humanism