{"id":29078,"date":"2024-03-07T10:42:42","date_gmt":"2024-03-07T09:42:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=29078"},"modified":"2024-03-07T10:42:42","modified_gmt":"2024-03-07T09:42:42","slug":"ever-heard-of-the-antemurale-myth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=29078","title":{"rendered":"Ever heard of the antemurale myth"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The\u00a0<strong>Antemurale myth<\/strong>\u00a0or the\u00a0<strong>Bulwark myth<\/strong>\u00a0is one of the nationalist myths which implies a certain nation&#8217;s mission of being a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bastion\">bulwark<\/a>\u00a0against the other\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Religions\">religions<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nations\">nations<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ideologies\">ideologies<\/a>. The word &#8220;Antemurale&#8221; is derived from Latin\u00a0<em>ante<\/em>\u00a0(before, in time and space) and\u00a0<em>murale<\/em>\u00a0(wall, attributive).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Antemurale myth is different than other nationalist myths because it does not insist on the uniqueness of a certain group, but on its inclusion into some larger cultural entity which is allegedly\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Superior_(hierarchy)\">superior<\/a>\u00a0to other groups which do not belong to it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The antemurale myth became an archetypal myth of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nationhood\">nationhood<\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Southeastern_Europe\">Southeastern Europe<\/a>.<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nationalists\">  Nationalists<\/a>\u00a0developed\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Narratives\">narratives<\/a>\u00a0about their nations being\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Antemurale_Christianitatis\">Antemurale Christianitatis<\/a>\u00a0who protect the West from the invasion of Islam, while the West ungratefully forgets this fact.\u00a0Almost every\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nation\">nation<\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Southeast_Europe\">southeast Europe<\/a>\u00a0has the perception and national myth of being the bulwark of some universal system of values (such as <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Christianity\">Christianity<\/a> or\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Islam\">Islam<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0Antemurale myth\u00a0or the\u00a0Bulwark myth\u00a0is one of the nationalist myths which implies a certain nation&#8217;s mission of being a\u00a0bulwark\u00a0against the other\u00a0religions,\u00a0nations\u00a0or\u00a0ideologies. The word &#8220;Antemurale&#8221; is derived from Latin\u00a0ante\u00a0(before, in time and space) and\u00a0murale\u00a0(wall, attributive). The Antemurale myth is different than other nationalist myths because it does not insist on the uniqueness of a certain group, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29078"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29080,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29078\/revisions\/29080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}