Abstract
This chapter enables a more precise focus: Romanian discourses not just about foreigners, but specifically about foreign travellers. In doing so, it seeks to raise questions concerning not just the status of Western travellers as imputed ethical arbiters, but also some of the problems and dilemmas raised by the presence and function of this trope in a variety of forms within an allegedly ‘minor’ culture. The chapter analyses a series of texts, composed between 1702 and 1858, in which Romanian authors either describe British and French travellers, or respond to the latter’s writings about their country or people. It examines some polemics of Ottoman Moldavia and Wallachia, which clearly show the impassioned responses of travelees to travel writing concerning their countries. In Moldavia and Wallachia, more explicit blame was placed on foreigners, and not just any foreigners: travellers and historians in particular were singled out for critique. Keywords:foreign travellers; Moldavia; Romanianculture; Wallachia
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