Cultural Confluences in the Old Banat

In the present study, we make a retrospective incursion in the history of Banat [Romania] by analyzing three old texts from different areas and times: Gerard of Cenad's Deliberatio supra hymnum trium puerorum [1], (philosophy/theology), Nicolae Stoica of Haţeg's Cronica Banatului (Banat's Chronicle)[2], (history/memoirism), and Constantin Diaconovici Loga's Epistolariul romanesc pentru facerea a tot feliul de scrisori ce sânt în viaţa soţietăţii omeneşti la multe întâmplări de lipsă (Romanian Epistolary for the Writing of all Types of Letters of Human Society, Lacking on Different Occasions) [3] (literature/epistolary style). The key to the reading and interpreting these documents is represented by the principles of multi- and inter-culturalism applied in the valorisation of old texts through modern research instruments and methods. The concepts of multiculturalism and interculturalism are relatively new, but the practices on which they rely are old. The research of written documents and the presentation of old texts from modern perspectives through the principles of interculturalism can bring a new perspective on the past, and can emphasise the contribution of regional cultures to the richness of the world heritage.