Historical horizons of the modern culture:Amediterranean context

The article introduces the range of questions that are discussed in the part of the presentissue of the journal dedicated to the historical horizon of modern civilization. InAntiquity and the Middle Ages, the most important ideas for modern civilization wereformulated. Scientific, legal and social ideas that arose in the distant past created thehorizon of modern culture, which begins to take on more or less distinct contours now.The development of this topic by the scholars, which were invited to collaborate in theissue, has produced an interesting additional result: it became clear that purely historicalthemes can be comprehended in terms of the theory of Human Capital. Moreover, theauthors have focused on the socio-Anthropological aspect of the problem, which allowsus to see in the practices and activities of people those ways of thinking, mentalparadigms, forms of knowledge and social strategies that constituted structural elementsof their culture, which were formed in the deep Past.