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The Požega Valley – European Cultural Centre (Archaeological Perspective)

Hrvoje Potrebica

Sažetak

In discussions tackling social and humanistic topics, the idea of European culture is often described as a compact and static body consisting of clearly defined elements and radially spreading from an imagined centre towards periphery. This paper is based on the thesis that European culture is a dynamic net, the hubs of which uninterruptedly communicate. Examples from three basic archaeological periods show that due to a whole set of external but also culturological factors, the Požega Valley has, since the earliest times, been an important centre in the context of creating and promoting European cultural heritage. In the Middle Ages, the monastery in Rudina played a major role as a culturological centre, whose invisible importance merely reflected the monumentality of architecture and plastic. Rare material proofs thereof are metal book covers, historical sources, arts and epigraphy related to visual communication between ideology and identity. The concept of cultural affiliation to the Roman Empire depended to the most extent on how deeply culture had entered the space or rather the fibre of local communities. Nevertheless, what often tends to be forgotten is the fact that in one of the greatest empires of the known world and the atmosphere of the first globalist comprehension of culture, 95 % of population lived in rural environments well presented by the finds from Tekić. The material found in princely graves near Kaptol was of so much importance that an entire Early-Iron-Age culture in this part of Europe was named after this location. The mighty rulers of this part of the world managed a community that was located on the tri-border of: the Alps, dominated by the Central-European Hallstatt culture; the Pannonia, which accepted the eastern Caucasus influences; and the Balkans, which accepted the influences of the faraway Mediterranean civilisations. Their power and immense influence were, inter alia, based on a certain kind of monopoly on the culturological transfer among these three worlds.

Ključne riječi

The Požega Valley; archeology

Hrčak ID:

97370

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/97370

Datum izdavanja:

15.11.2012.

Podaci na drugim jezicima: hrvatski

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