While travelling across Europe, the enlightened Orthodox monk Gerasim Zelić mentally never abandons his native Dalmatia. Moving from his Žitije, which is essentially a travelogue, the paper aims to analyse the tension between the open-minded, secular Zelić and the other Zelić, who identified himself with the Orthodox traditions of Dalmatia without knowing how to adjust them to modernity. According to the author, his rational head and his romantic heart make his global outlook deeply controversial and his mentality typical of a Homo Mediterraneus.
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Chapter Title
Gerasim Zelić – Homo Mediterraneus?
Authors
Drago Roksandić
Language
Italian
DOI
10.36253/978-88-6453-979-9.08
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Publication Year
2019
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© 2019 Author(s)
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Book Title
Gerasim Zelić e il suo tempo
Editors
Monica Fin, Han Steenwijk
Peer Reviewed
Number of Pages
140
Publication Year
2019
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© 2019 Author(s)
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Publisher Name
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/978-88-6453-979-9
ISBN Print
978-88-6453-978-2
eISBN (pdf)
978-88-6453-979-9
eISBN (xml)
978-88-9273-004-5
Series Title
Biblioteca di Studi Slavistici
Series ISSN
2612-7687
Series E-ISSN
2612-7679