Миграциите на Македонци кон Украина (хронолошка и типолошка скица), in: Украiнсько-македонський науковий збıрник. Випуск 5, Киiв, 2011, 40-48 (Migraciite na Makedonci kon Ukraina /hronološka i tipološka skica/, in: Ukrainsʹko-makedonsʹkij naukovij zbırnik. Vipusk 5, Kiiv, 2011, 40-48) (original) (raw)

Dynamics of anthroponymy in the context of migration: Borşa, Maramureş county, Romania

2022

This paper is a sociolinguistic analysis of anthroponyms from Borşa, Maramureş county, Romania, in the context of migration. The research illustrates the dynamic of anthroponyms, the frequency of foreign names and bilingual nominal structures, as well as the sociocultural factors underlying the choice of names. The corpus of the article consists of first names of newborns, extracted from civil and parish registers of Borşa and verified, in part, through a questionnaire filled in by the parents. The time interval proposed for the analysis spans 18 years (2000-2018), including the period in which migratory flows multiply and many migrants return. Thus, the onomastic material subjected to research is representative of anthroponymic multiculturalism in Romania.

ETHNOGRAPHIC RESEARCHES CONCERNING THE ROMANIANS BETWEEN KOZLODUY AND SVISHTOV (English version)

Revista Romana de Sociologie, 2011

In Northern Bulgaria, along the Danube River, between Lom and Sishtov, there are groups of villages, communes and towns inhabited by a majority population of Romanian origin. However, as they do not benefit from minimum minority-specific rights at the beginning of this 21 st century (education and religious service in their native language), the members of this population now move away from their mother tongue, adopting Bulgarian as their language and asserting themselves as Bulgarians. This article aims to present the ethnocultural and historical situation of these Romanian communities located in the cross-border cooperation area on the right shore of the Danube River.

Un cărturar nedreptățit: Nicola Nicolau (Studia interdisciplinaria. In memoriam magistri Barbu Ștefănescu, coord. G. Moisa, F. Ciure, S. Șipoș, I. Goman, Ed. Muzeului Țării Crișurilor / Centrul de Studii Transilvane, Oradea / Cluj-Napoca, 2023, pp. 313-340) [= Indo-historico-geographica 3.1]

2023

Nicola Nicolau: an Intellectual with an Unfair Posterity: This is the first in a series of three articles discussing the life and work of Nicola Nicolau (1762-1837), a Romanian merchant and scholar from the Transylvanian town of Brașov (Kronstadt, in the Habsburg Empire). Its chapters deal with Nicolau’s family and life, the books published by him, the question of their authorship, their sources, their circulation, and, finally, with Nicolau’s teaching activity. While settling, on the basis of primary sources, a number of earlier hypotheses and debates, it proposes some new hypotheses, which should be checked against further primary evidence.

Sergiu Musteata, Review, Aleksander Bursche, John Hines, and Anna Zapolska (eds), The Migration Period between the Oder and the Vistula, BRILL: Leiden/Boston, 2020, 1052 pages, volume 1-2

Plural : History. Culture. Society = Istorie. Cultură. Societate, 2020

Book Reviews/ Recenzii Volumul cu numărul 59/1 și 59/2 The Migration Period between the Oder and the Vistula, coordonat de către Aleksander Bursche, John Hines și Anna Zapolska apare la Editura BRILL, în seria "East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450", coordonată de Florin Curta și Dušan Zupka. Lucrarea cuprinde 26 de articole, distribuite în patru capitole, câte două capitole în fiecare volum. Astfel, volumul 1 include 12 articole și volumul 2-celalte 14 articole. Studiile au fost realizate de cunoscuți specialiști în domeniile arheologiei, istoriei, numismaticii și paleobotanicii, care, în mare parte, au participat timp de șase ani la proiectul pluridisciplinar Maestro (2012-2018), coordonat de prof. Alexander Bursche de la Universitatea din Varșovia, Polonia. Culegerea de studii este însoțită de instrumentele bibliografice necesare, care facilitează accesul la informațiile din conținutul articolelor: listele figurilor, diagramelor, tabelelor, abrevierilor, bibliografia comună și indicele geografic. Bineînțeles că ar fi fost bine venit și un indice de nume, dar probabil că acest lucru a fost dificil de realizat. În Introducerea (p. 1-12) semnată de prof. Alexander Bursche sunt prezentate câteva aspecte privind proiectul Maestro, implementat de o echipă de cercetători polonezi coordonată de experți din diferite state europene. Proiectul a avut drept scop cercetarea pluridisciplinară a așezărilor populațiilor migratoare dintre râurile Oder și Vistula din sec. IV-VI, care au fost insuficient analizate și prezentate în trecut. Pe parcursul implementării proiectului, membrii echipei au prezentat peste 60 de comunicări la diverse conferințe internaționale, au dezvoltat o pagină web dedicată proiectului-www.mpov.uw.edu.pl, au realizat două expoziții susținute de cataloage în poloneză și engleză, au publicat peste 30 de articole în diverse reviste și culegeri de studii și au desfășurat o conferință internațională. Aleksander BURSCHE, John HINES and Anna ZAPOLSka (eds), The Migration Period between the Oder and the Vistula,

Despre clopotele şi clopotarii din Ţara Moldovei (până la 1859) / About bells and bellmakers in Moldavia (before 1859)

Tyragetia, 2015

Bells used in Christian churches are documentary sources due to the inscriptions, decorations and coats of arms available on them. Depending on the language in which the inscriptions were made, old bells had different names. The bells used to be donated to the churches by private persons, by the right of the founder, or by communities; the oldest bells of the medieval Moldavian state date back to the reign of Stephen the Great. The alloy used for bell casting contained copper, brass and a minor amount of silver or other elements. Bellfounders were itinerant, traveling from church to church to cast bells, the furnaces were built on sites, and the casting of large bells was carried out only during the warmer months. The most lasting operation was building the furnace and constructing the mold, and the most dangerous process was pouring the melt metal in a mold. This was followed by controlled cooling the bell, removing the mold material after the metal has solidifi ed, and finishing t...

Aspecte ale coordonării prin joncțiune în limba română veche

Diacronia, 2016

Abordarea coordonării prin joncțiune din perspectivă evolutivă a urmărit să edifice valorile discursive ale conectorilor, în formula completă a tiparelor acestei relații sintactice, și felul în care norma literară a selectat în timp elementele din fiecare subclasă. Au fost preluate informațiile statistice și cele referitoare la distribuția în ariile dialectale din studiile de specialitate recente, lucrarea recurgînd numai la exemplificări diverse, din textele românești ale primelor trei secole, evidențiind astfel continuitatea proceselor. Obiectivul principal al cercetării a fost integrarea în sistemul coordonării a tiparelor pe care cercetarea de pînă acum le-a neglijat în cea mai mare parte, chiar cînd era vorba de limba română actuală. A fost descrisă, de asemenea, (la raportul adversativ) și coordonarea din frazele de tip periodic, concesivă și condițională (aceasta din urmă nesemnalată în limba actuală), ca un fapt de continuitate: latina populară – limba română.

Geografie și enciclopedism. Revizitându-l pe Gheorghe Lazăr (150 de ani de muzeografie orădeană, coord. Gabriel Moisa, Aurel Chiriac, Ed. Muzeului Țării Crișurilor, Oradea, 2023, pp. 223-232) [= Indo-historico-geographica 3. Addendum]

Geography and encyclopaedism. Revisiting Gheorghe Lazăr: Between 1810 and 1822, Gheorghe Lazăr (1779/82-1823) composed or compiled four geography textbooks for the use of the Romanian schools of Transylvania and Walachia: a mathematical geography (1810), a geography of Transylvania (1815), an astronomical geography (1820), and a world geography (1822), respectively. The first two were destined for publication in Transylvania, but his superior blocked all attempts. The last two were used in the St. Sava College of Bucharest, and – according to a 1822 manifesto – the world geography was being prepared for publication. Like most of Lazăr’s Nachlass, they have been lost after his death. The present article discusses all the available information about these books and attempts to identify their sources on the basis of contextual data. It also underlines Lazăr’s long lasting interest for the subject matter of geography, which has been neglected by both his biographers and the historiography of geographical studies in Romanian culture. My thesis is that it should be understood as part of Lazăr’s encyclopaedicism, another dimension of his intellectual formation and academic profile which has been neglected. The last section, which places Lazăr in the context of the geographical textbook production during his mature life and the decades following his death, shows that many other manuscript textbooks have met with the same fate: they failed to reach the printing press and – sooner or later – have been lost.

O carte manuscrisă pierdută. Geografia lumii copiată de Sava Popovici din Rășinari (1785) (Revista de istorie şi teorie literară, Bucureşti, XVII, nr. 1-4, 2023, pp. 369-375) [= Indo-historico-geographica 1. Addendum 2]

Revista de istorie și teorie literară, 2023

A lost manuscript book. The world geography copied by Sava Popovici from Rășinari (1785): The paper discusses a manuscript book – known in a copy made by the priest Sava Popovici (1735-1808) from Rășinari in the year 1785 –, which was described in 1912 and 1915. Its trace was completely lost afterwards and it attracted attention only once, in a marginal way. Our research has led to the identification of the original – a Russian introductory book for the students of the Saint Petersburg academic gymnasium – and to a plausible proposal for its anonymous author: the Prussian astronomer Christian Nicolaus von Winsheim (1694-1751), who was teaching after the famous schoolbook of Johann Hübner. We are also proposing the most probable author of the translation: the schoolmaster Radu Duma (174?-1791) from Brașov. Its final sections discuss the image of India as described in its chapter on Asia and, respectively, its probable use as a textbook in a number of schools from the South-Eastern part of Transylvania: Brașov, Rășinari, and Sibiu.

Între "orientalism" şi obiectivitate: etnografia rusă şi Basarabia în a doua jumătate a secolului XIX

2013

This paper discusses the interaction between the discourses of empire and nation as it emerged in the debates about the proper object of research and the criteria for legitimacy of the newly founded discipline of ethnography in the Russian Empire in the last decades of the 18 th and throughout the 19 th century. A special emphasis will be laid upon the particular features of the appearance and evolution of ethnographic preoccupations in the Russian Empire starting with the second half of the 18 th century, when the first attempts at the synthesis and classification of ethnographic enquiries can be discerned, and spanning the first half of the 19 th century. In this context, the case of Bessarabia represents an illustrative example of the uneasy interaction between the specialized and supposedly "objective" knowledge of learned experts and the agendas of the central and local authorities and officials. My basic goal has been to uncover the relationship between the "imp...