Policy and prophecy. The legend of the last emperor and the iconography of the ruler crowned by angels in Wallachia [PDF]
The article analyses the occurrence of the iconography of the ruler crowned by angels in Wallachia in the mid-sixteenth century, a late revival of a Byzantine iconographic model with no examples known in Wallachia prior to this date. In the nave
Negrău Elisabeta
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From Dragula to Cypelles: Wallachia in the Late 1470s
For Pope Pius II, Vlad was John Dragula and his cruelty completed the lamented fate of the Wallachians, Rome’s Eastern forgotten children, still capable of finding recovery and redemption, Vlad included, under the authority of Matthias, the king of ...
A. Simon
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Views from the East: Changing Attitudes to Venice in Late Byzantium
Abstract This paper explores the changing attitudes towards Venice in late Byzantine texts. It argues that, along with the strengthening of political and cultural ties between Byzantium and Venice, the Byzantines' perspectives evolved from rejection to admiration. As scholars like Demetrios Kydones and Manuel Chrysoloras began to teach Greek in Venice,
Florin Leonte
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The research undertaken here focuses on the urban modernization of the villages of Wallachia from the period of the Organic Regulation (1831-1858).
Vasile Grigore
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The Network Expression of a Roma Diaspora
ABSTRACT Despite the longstanding debates among ethnographers and policymakers regarding the social organization of the Roma–the largest and most marginalized native ethnocultural minority in Europe–quantitative analyses are limited. This is partly due to a unique combination of social closure and spatial dispersion of most Roma groups, exacerbated by ...
Francisco J. Ogáyar +4 more
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Meșteșugul doftoriei. Primul tratat românesc de medicină. Ediția manuscriselor românești bar nr. 933 și 4841. Studiu filologic, studiu lingvistic, ediție, glosar și indice de Lia Brad Chisacof, Editura Academiei Române, București, 2017 [PDF]
The editing of the first Romanian medical treatise based on two manuscripts belonging to the Romanian Academy Library is reported. The work, in fact a compiled translation from several sources made between 1760 and 1771 / 1786–1795 / 1785, is a quasi ...
Laura Bădescu
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Minding Literature’s Business: Cultivating a Sense of Evanescence Within Political Affairs [PDF]
The paper investigates the relationship between political oratory and literature in Romania during the second part of the 19th century. Extending the theories of Jacques Rancière, Fredric Jameson, Slavoj Žižec, and Leonidas Donskis, I analyze the ...
Patraș, Roxana
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Abstract Conversion to a museum is a common destiny of many cultural assets that cannot continue to serve their original functions. They are usually re‐functioned to provide public benefits in return for the expenditures made for their preservation. However, their architectural features may not always meet the expected results when functioning as a ...
Hasan Fırat Diker
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Dysdera parthenogenetica sp. nov. (Araneae, Dysderidae): A Unique Case of Parthenogenesis in Spiders
We studied the parthenogenetic lineages of the spider Dysdera hungarica (Araneae: Dysderidae). Based on our data, we consider them to constitute a separate taxon, Dysdera parthenogenetica sp. nov. Morphologically, the new species differs mainly by slightly reduced female copulatory organs.
Milan Řezáč +7 more
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Reading "Princepele" through the Eyes of the Doomed : Queering Nationalism and Masculinity in a Communist Romanian Novel [PDF]
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Norocel, Cristian
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