Historical [Pre-]Modernism and the Entangled Networks of the Enlightenment. Dimitrie Cantemir’s Descriptio Moldaviae During the Long 18th Century and the Beginning of the 19th Century

Dimitrie Cantemir’s Descriptio Moldaviae is considered the first [pre-] modern historiographical text of national history/geography and is celebrated as the first academic work written by a native Romanian that can still be used as a scientific reference today. We postulate in the present article that the modernity of the Catemirean writing is not derived from its academic