الصلات السلمية و العنيفة بين الشرق و الغرب في نهاية العصر الوسيط

الملخص EN

The concept of East and West leads us to different cultural words or principles which revealed centuries ago around the mediterranean area and the regions nearby, announcing totally different opinions towards each other.

Indeed, this resulted in establishing non – stable relationships that bounced between unlimited cooperation and openness in certain periods and a tendency to isolation and introversion in others periods.

In this prospect, people's imagination developed a complex of thoughts and ideas which were basically based on the fear of losing one's identity and meeting into the other’s culture and civilization.

Each of these civilizations resorted, in times of weakness and decoy, to put imaginary barriers and rather psychological obstacles in order to show that the other is a real enemy so as to stop his cultural expansion.

The religious and social organizations in additions to the people in power did their best to maintain this cultural crash.

However, all their efforts were doomed to failure as the mediterranean region had always its pace as a region of cultural exchange and tolerance.