Skënderbeu midis historisë, mitit historik dhe mitit letrar. Një çështje debati shkencor
Scanderbeg between history, historical myth and literary myth. A matter of scientific debate

Summary/Abstract: Why is it that five and a half centuries later, Gjergj Kastrioti Skënderbeu reappears in historiographic literature, publicistic literature, conferences and television production studios, provoking debate among experts but also amongst devotees on hypotheses and counterarguments related to what is fundamental about this figure and the relationship that Albanian science has had and continues to have with such a figure. This is a natural phenomenon. What personage out of the history of mankind, and especially of the earlier phases of it, has not been subject to most antithetical forms of interpretation? Coming from a complex historical and political context of past centuries, in documents that are found or documents that are missing, full of the subjectivism of foreign and Albanian interpreters, Skanderbeg is most certainly to remain a perpetual provocative name of the field for these researchers. The discussion on the essence of this figure and the relationship between foreign and Albanian science up to the present time should be clearly differentiated on three aspects: I. Skanderbeg in historical documents, II. Historical myth, and III. Artistic myth. Being a complex historical personality, Skënderbe appears in these aspects which various interpreters oftentimes tend to confuse, thus complicating the interpretation of the essence of this figure.

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