![]() ![]() The ‘East’ in this binary formula can mean a variety of things: the Byzantine Empire, Eurasian nomads, Russia, the Crimean Khanate and the Ottoman Empire (sometimes defined all together as the ‘Turkic-Islamic world’).Īs for Byzantium, historians mostly agree with Ivan L. The ‘West’ in this formula is rather static and obvious-it is ‘Western Europe’ which begins in Poland and whose manifestations in Ukraine are the Magdeburg Law, the Reformation and Counter-Reformation, as well as the Uniate (Greek-Catholic) Church, seen as a synthesis of Western and Eastern Christianity that has managed to survive despite all the efforts of the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union to destroy it. ![]() It has been regarded as a stable metaphor, one that is simultaneously productive, open and topical. ‘Ukraine between East and West’ is one of the most common metaphors of Ukrainian historiography. Ukrania quae et Terra Cosaccorum cum vicinis Walachiae, Moldoviae, Johann Baptiste Homann (Nuremberg, 1720) ![]() The Humanities in the 21st Century: Perspectives from the Arab World and Germany.Seen Through a Spatial Lens … – Spatializations in Global Times.Rethinking East European Studies in Times of Upheaval.The Literary 1980s in the Middle East and the Maghreb.Infrastructures and Society in (Post-)Ottoman Geographies.Envisioning Work: The Visual Cultures of Labor.Environmental History of the Ottoman Empire. ![]()
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