ACTIVITY
REPORT ON THE GRANT
Sexuality and Political-religious
discourse
in Romanian Pre-Modern Society
(2014)
Project
PN-II-ID-PCE-2012-4-0079
During
2014 the project team members Sexuality and religious-political discourse in
early modern Romanian society continued to documentation and exploitation of
results. In addition to identifying new documents and related literature
covering research topic, team members have published books and articles in
journals and collective volumes and attended scientific meetings in the country
and abroad. Some of these activities are ongoing and will be completed in the
future. For this stage the team had to fulfill two main objectives, namely, the
development of case studies on the involvement of Romanian international
scientific debate on sexuality and enhancement of the preliminary results of
research and ensure connection with Romanian and foreign specialists on the project
field. Both objectives were met, but they still relevant for future stages.
Thus, to fulfill the second objective,
the project team organized in collaboration with the New Europe College and
University "Alexandru Ioan Cuza" international conference L’avènement
d’un nouvel imaginaire collectif ? « Corps » du peuple, « Corps de la
Nation », Sexualité et Modernité,
Bucharest, 17-18 octomber 2014. The scientific event brought
together specialists from Romania ,
France and Greece
Liviu Pilat :
Sexuality and Power in Moldavia
Petronel
zahariuc : Le clergé orthodoxe et les mœurs des
croyants de Moldavie à la fin du XVIIIe siècle et au début du XIXe
Christophe Regina : Contraindre le corps des femmes par le
travail et la prière : l'institution des refuges en France sous l'Ancien Régime
Nicoleta Roman : Un nouveau groupe social vers la modernité en Valachie au XIXe siècle:
les enfants. Programmes et intentions pour le corps, l'esprit et l'âme des
enfants roumains
Constanţa
Vintilă-Ghiţulescu : Expertiser les corps et la sexualité :
‘amateurs’ et ‘spécialistes’ (1750-1830)
In addition to organizing this international
conference, team members presented scientific papers at major scientific
meetings. Thus, Constance Vintilă-Ghiţulescu presented the paper Seduced by the Work / Seduced by the Men.
Romanian Childhood and Their Experiences the XVIIIth century Apprentice in
the session "Learning and Training Patterns of Skilled Labour Force in
preindustrial Europe (14th-18th Centuries)", European Social Science History Conference, Vienna Europe from the Late Middle Ages to the Present”. Also, the same researcher presented the paper A name for nobody's child.
Baptism, godparents an abandoned children in Wallachia (1800–1860), in the 2014 Conference of the European Society of Historical Demography,
Alghero, 25-27 September 2014. It also notes Constanța Vintilă-Ghiţulescu
presented the paper Travailler pour
les autres. La domesticité roumaine à travers les comptes d’un patron
agricole (1800-1838) in the international
conference "Servants and Domestic Workers in Rural Europe, XVI to XIX
Centuries. Diversity and Regional forms of dependance ", November 28,
2014, EHESS, Paris. All work papers will be published in proceedings of
conferences next year.
An important result, with a significant impact
on increasing the visibility of Romanian historical research internationally,
is the volume published by Constance Vintilă-Ghiţulescu, Im Schalwar und mit Baschlik. Kirche, Sexualität, Ehe und in der
Walachei Scheidung im 18. Jarhundert, Frank
& Timmme ,
Berlin
Articles
published by research team members reflect very well fulfill the first
objective stated above and also the direction followed by each researcher. Note
that the number of items made by team members is higher, but we mention here
only those already published.
- Constanţa Vintilă-Ghiţulescu, Mixed Marriages, Mixed Children: between Norms and Practices in
Romanian Society (18th-19th Centuries), în Luminţa Dumănescu, Daniela
Mârza, Marius Eppel, Intermarriage
throughout History, Cambridge Scholar Publisher, 2014.
- Constanţa
Vintilă-Ghiţulescu, «Rapiécer un honneur
perdu»: filles, parents et sexualité dans la société roumaine (XVIIIe siècle),
SIDeS, Popolazione e Storia”, 1/2013, pp. 105-128.
- Nicoleta Roman, Orfanii
evgheniţi ai familiei Oteteleşanu în Valahia primei jumătăţi a veacului al
XIX-lea în Mircea Ciubotaru, Lucian Lefter (eds.), ,,Mihail Dim.
Sturdza la 80 ani. Omagiu'', Iaşi
- Petronel
Zahariuc, Despre „slujbele facute patriei”.
Vornicul Constantin Sturdza, presedinte al Societatii de Medici si Naturalisti
din Iasi, în vol. „Mihai Dim.Sturdza la 80 de ani. Omagiu”, editori Mircea
Ciubotaru, Lucian-Valeriu Lefter, Editura Universitatii „Alexandru Ioan Cuza”,
Iasi, 2014, p. 221-244.
Our
results show the importance of research topic and its potential, wich fact put
the Romanian historical research on an important position. On the history of
sexuality between Romanian historiography and other European historiography
there is a gap, but not so large such other traditional historiographical
issues. This leads us to believe that during the next stages, the results will
be important, especially in terms of relations between sexuality, gender and
power, subject which receive a special attention from researchers in the last
time. Unfortunately, the project Sexuality and politico-religious discourse in
early modern Romanian society is under the auspices of a total lack of
predictability, which makes it very hard work of researchers and their full
involvement in European scientific gear. The scientific researchers misses
important because, in the absence of any indications concerning the amount and
the date of execution of the budget can not confirm participation. We hope that
in the future stages this major difficulty will be eliminated.
