hal-05543857 Le discours d’ouverture de Nicolas Iorga au congrès de 1924. Byzance entre (…)

The organization of the First International Congress of Byzantine Studies in Bucharest owed much to the personal initiative of the Romanian historian Nicolae Iorga. The congress opened on Monday, 14 April 1924, with Iorga, as president of the organizing committee, welcoming the delegates from across Europe. This article analyzes his inaugural address, highlighting Iorga’s understanding of the Byzantine legacy, the traces of that legacy preserved in Romanian culture, and the place of Byzantine and post‑Byzantine history within universal history.