Activity Report 2015



ACTIVITY REPORT ON THE GRANT
Sexuality and Political-religious discourse
 in Romanian Pre-Modern Society
(2015)
Project PN-II-ID-PCE-2012-4-0079

           During 2015 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: Constituting the exhaustive documentary and bibliographic support (documentaries in archives and libraries in order to identify the primary and secondary sources; documentaries in libraries in order to inventory the main historical contributions; indexing the identified sources) and a preliminary dissemination of the outcomes (lectures and conferences on the project theme; publishing documents on the project theme;  publishing studies in specialty journals). Both objectives were met, but they still relevant for future stages.
         Especially to accomplish the second objective the project team members presented the following work papers:

- Constanţa VINTILĂ-GHIŢULESCU, ’’You would have them lock me up and sell me as slave’’: Parents and children in eighteenth century Wallachia, International Workshop, ’’Honour Thy Father and Thy Mother’’: Violence Against Parents in the North of Europe – St. Anne’s College, University of Oxford, Oxford, 6-7 July 2015.

- Liviu PILAT, Între onoare și trădare: pribegia lui Vasco Barinovski și relațiile moldo-polone la începutul secolului XVI, Puterea cuvintelor - cuvintele puterii. Discurs, propagandă, cuvinte memorabile, Institutul de Istorie „N. Iorga”, București, 7 december 2014.

- Nicoleta ROMAN, Words and Deeds: Children’s violence towards their Parents in the 19th Century Romanian Society, International Workshop, ’’Honour Thy Father and Thy Mother’’: Violence Against Parents in the North of Europe – St. Anne’s College, University of Oxford, Oxford, 6-7 July 2015.

- Nicoleta ROMAN, Une lutte pour vie, une lutte pour survivre: pauvre, veuve et avec enfants dans la Valachie du XIXème siècle, Journée d’étude, Les familles face au veuvage en Europe (19ème-20ème siècles), Rennes, Université Rennes II, 5 October 2015


An important result with a significant impact is the volume published by Constance Vintilă-Ghiţulescu, Patimă şi desfătare. Despre lucrurile mărunte ale vieţii cotidiene în societatea românească (1750-1860), Bucureşti, Humanitas, 2015, 488 p. Dedicated to everyday life, the book offers an image of early modern Romanian society, including aspects related to family, sexuality and leisure.
          Articles published by research team members reflect very well fulfill the second objective stated above and also the direction followed by each researcher.

Constanţa VINTILĂ-GHIŢULESCU, ’’Condica de toate pricinile şi trebuinţele casii mele’’ de pitarul Dumitru Piersiceanu de la Fundata (1804-1839) in Dan-Dumitru Iacob, Avere, prestigiu şi cultură materială în surse patrimoniale. Inventare de averi din secolele XVI-XIX, Iaşi, Editura Universităţii ’’Alexandru Ioan Cuza’’, 2015, pp. 523-552
Constanţa VINTILĂ-GHIŢULESCU, ’’Să-şi ia copiii să şi’i crească’’: despre copiii şi lumea copilăriei (1700-1850) in Nicoleta Roman (ed.), Copilăria Românească între familie şi societate (secolele XVII-XX), Bucureşti, Nemira, 2015, pp. 189-206
Liviu PILAT,
Petronel ZAHARIUC, Începutul domniei lui Ioniţă Sandu Sturza. Un fragment din istoria anului 1822 în Lucian-Valeriu Lefter, Mihai-Bogdan Atanasiu (eds.), In honorem Mircea Ciubotaru, Iaşi, Editura Universităţii ’’Alexandru Ioan Cuza’’, 2015, pp. 487-551
Nicoleta ROMAN, Être nourrice à Bucarest au debut du XIXème siècle: pistes de travail in ,,Romanian Journal of Modern History’’, 1-2/2014, pp. 19-39 (issued in 2015)
Nicoleta ROMAN, Şcolile săteşti din Ţara Românească: începuturi, obstacole şi realizări (1831-1848) in Cătălina Mihalache, Leonidas Rados (eds.), Educaţia publică şi condiţionările sale (secolele XIX-XX), Iaşi, Editura Universităţii ’’Alexandru Ioan Cuza’’, 2015, pp. 49-87

Our results show the importance of research topic and its potential, which 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.