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September 2022

 

 

 

 

Alexandra Chiriac, Alina Bruckner, Iulia Elena Zup,

Ioan-Augustin Guriţă, Ana Catană-Spenchiu (Eds.)

 

Re-Configuring Romanian Culture

on its Way Towards Modernity

 

Romanian Translation Practice

in the Age of Enlightenment (1770-1830)

 

Konstanz 2022, 334 Seiten, € 49,80.

ISBN 978-3-86628-765-5

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Abstract

 

As a direct result of an international conference organized in the year 2021, the volume tries to shed light on the way in which the translation activity contributed to the Romanian culture and language, drawing from different traditions and cultures it came in contact with (directly or indirectly), and thus mingling the own Slavonic church tradition with the new and revolutionary ideas of the Western world and using this mix to modernise the society, language and the politics in this region. Furthermore, this eclectic collection of articles highlights the fact that it was neither the exclusive merit of the Transylvanian scholars, nor of the Moldavian or Wallachian ones to have contributed decisively to the formation of the national consciousness and to the standardisation of the language, but it was rather the collaboration, the circulation of people and ideas that furthered the modernity in all three Romanian Principalities. Without disregarding the regional specificity of the Romanian Enlightenment, the volume focuses  on the interconnections of the agents involved in the cultural transfer, on the networks they created for the dissemination of knowledge and political thought and on the common effort to render the new ideas and concepts of the foreign cultures in a national language that could be accessible to the Romanians.

 

 

 

Contents

 

INTRODUCTION

 

Eugenia DIMA, A new perspective on the Romanian

culture during the Enlightenment period

 

Alin-Mihai GHERMAN, Samuil Micu’s translations at the

end of the 18th century

 

Iulia Elena ZUP, The role of Romanian merchants in the

transfer of Enlightenment ideas. The merchant and

translator Nicola Nicolau

 

George N. VLAHAKIS, The adventures of a Greek priest,

the acquaintance of Newtonian physics and other

stories in 18th century Romanian Principalities

 

Ioan-Augustin GURIŢĂ, Some observations regarding a

version of “The history of the fall of Constantinople”

from the 18th century Moldavia. Sources, circulation,

significance

 

Ana CATANĂ-SPENCHIU, Iosif CAMARĂ, Between

propaganda and information: the texts published in

Buda in 1814-1815 in the context of the Napoleonic

wars

 

Alexandra CHIRIAC, The “Entangled history” of

historiography: Allgemeine Weltgeschichte in its

Romanian translation. Book circulation and knowledge

transfer

 

Gabriela E. DIMA, The first Romanian version of Sir Isaac

Newton’s Laws of motion

 

Alina BRUCKNER, The image of the ideal ruler in

Damaschin Bojincă’s translations of historical writings

 

Constantin RĂCHITĂ, Cultural transfer and national

identity in Petru Maiorʼs ethnogenesis

 

Dănuţ Constantin BAICU, Observations on

(re)translating Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice

into Romanian

 

Victor CELAC, The origin of the Romanian vocable da

‘yes’, and the stages of its implantation in the language.

The role of translations into Romanian in its

modernisation period (1780–1860)

 

Mariana NASTASIA, Andreas Clemens’s Kleines

walachisch-deutsch und deutsch-walachisches

Wörterbuch. Notes on the first re-edited dictionary in

Romanian culture

 

Andreea CONDURACHE, Radu Tempeaʼs Gramatica

românească (1797). Foreign models of terminology

derived from linguistic calque and translation

 

Cornel TATAI-BALTĂ, Anca Elisabeta TATAY,

Considerations concerning Mihail Strilbițchi’s activity

as an engraver (second half of the 18th century)

 

BIONOTES

 

 

 

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