Vol. XXXV – 2022
1. Alexandru Mamina, Geopolitică pe durată medie în Sud-Estul Europei: 1829, 1878, 1913, p. 3-7.
L’article synthétise les évolutions des relations internationales dans le sud-est de l’Europe pendant le XIXème siècle et au début du XXème siècle par le biais d’un approche géopolitique, qui porte vers les rapports de force entre les différents acteurs sur le terrain, c՚ est à dire les Empires ottoman, russe et autrichien (puis Autriche-Hongrie), mais aussi les États-nation constitués dans la région. On voit ainsi d՚ abord le transfert d’hégémonie de l’Empire ottoman surtout à la Russie. Après le Congrès de paix tenu à Berlin en 1878 il s’agissait d’une situation toute particulière, parce qu’il n’exista plus un pouvoir impérial dominant, mais plusieurs États-nations de force presque égale. C’était une conjoncture favorable à l’affirmation politique des nations au sud-est de l’Europe et en même temps une situation qui engendra des conflits régionaux, autant que chaque État était en mesure de se dresser contre un autre mais sans avoir la puissance nécessaire de s’imposer effectivement.
2. Raluca Tomi, La neutralità italiana e l’opinione pubblica romena, p. 9-24.
In this article we try to present some echoes of the Romanian public opinion regarding Italian neutrality (August 1914-May 1915). The documentary material is represented first of all by the publications of the time (press, brochures), corroborated with the edited or unpublished memoirs of the Romanian political personalities, in order to capture the turmoil, the dilemmas of a generation on the threshold of a new era. In our research we read publications of different political nuances located in the important cities of the kingdom and the publications of the provinces under the Austro-Hungarian crown: „Gazeta de Transilvania” (Brașov), „Romanul” (Arad), „Telegraful” (Sibiu). The issues debated in the Romanian press regarding Italian politics during the mentioned period were: the reasons for Italy's adoption of the policy of neutrality, the opinions of Italian political parties and groups towards the policy of the Antonio Salandra government, the dilemma of maintaining the alliance with the Central Powers or joining the Entente; the opportunity for a joint Italian-Romanian action; moods of the population of the peninsula during the period of neutrality.
This paper analyses the first historical population samples published by the Dem-Ist database of the „Nicolae Iorga” Institute of History, with data from the 1838 general census of Wallachia. The aim is to study some of the social relations that were at the core of rural society in the past: those that manifested between parents and children when new families were formed. We examine the transition from one generation of families to another, using concepts and methods from the field of historical household studies. By doing so we were able to better conceptualize living arrangements among the sampled population. In the mountainous area we observed the dominance of the nuclear family system, reaching some of the highest level observed in Europe for that time. Separation between families seems to have had taken place even more often than postulated by the sociologic theory of Henri Stahl. In the plains, however, we have a mix of the nuclear family and stem family systems. The latter again transcends know paradigms, as it did not involve solely the youngest son living with his parents after marriage. Moreover, not all sons who found themselves in this situation were endowed, as the mainstream theory on the matter states. Contradicting former views, living patterns of Slavs and Romanians (cohabitating one of the sampled regions) proved remarkably similar, and we think these patterns were the result of pressures coming from agrarian economy, which altered norms, created new ones, changed practices.
Adoption is a lengthy and complex legal process that affects family life. The present study explores the adoption process of abandoned and illegitimate children that were in the care of the state, in mid-nineteenth century Romanian principality of Wallachia. It sheds light on the legal conditions and on the motivations of adoptive parents that appeared in front of the authorities. It brings new information on a social category little known to Romanian historiography – abandoned children –while analysing the firsts cases of adoption of the newly founded Paupers’ Institute (Institutul Sărmanilor) from Bucharest. This institution had in its care the abandoned children from Wallachia and, in 1832 it was at the beginning of its activity.
5. Daniel Gicu, Nicolae Iorga și balada populară ca sursă pentru istorici, p. 103-123.
This article is trying to contextualize Iorga's ideas about the genesis, circulation and function of the ballad in Romania and in Southeast Europe and compare them with the dominant interpretive paradigm in today's folkloristics, thus establishing what is still valid and what is obsolete in Iorga’s theories about the popular ballad. Analyzing the opinion of Nicolae Iorga, according to which one can identify in epic songs names of princes and references to historical events, an idea which had its roots in the European romanticism, this article is trying to identify to what extent can epic songs be used as reliable sources by historians.
13. [Apostol Stan (18 ianuarie 1933 – 3 februarie 2022). Memorial de Cristian Vasile, p. 145-146]
14. [Irina Gavrilă (11 februarie 1950 – 16 aprilie 2022). Memorial de Daniela Bușă, p. 147-148]