Böcker av Alex (University of Amsterdam Drace-Francis

With an introductory overview, notes on each text, and a guide to further reading, Alex Drace-Francis brings issues of European identity into sharp relief for both teachers and students of European history, geography, culture and politics.

How do literacy and the development of literary culture promote the development of a national identity? This book challenges the notion that Western ideas were essential to Romanian development. It is a fascinating story of how a national culture is born. It provides a history of the development of literary culture and the printed word in Romania.