{"title":"Between Humanism and Pre-Enlightenment: Dimitrie Cantemir and His Work: Historiographic Controversies","authors":"Florian Dumitru Soporan","doi":"10.33993/tr.2023.3.04","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33993/tr.2023.3.04","url":null,"abstract":"The multi-faceted personality of this Romanian prince, descended from a modest family, who achieved success by virtue of his own merits, became one of the foremost connoisseurs of the Islamic civilization and participated in the elaboration of Tsar Peter the Great’s reform policies, has inspired vivid historiographic debates, concerned especially with his inclusion among the representatives of late Romanian Humanism or among the exponents of Southeast European pre Enlightenment. His career, built at the crossroads between the Orthodox world, Islamic alterity, and the German historical-geographic school for the study of states, justifies the classification of his work as part of this latter cultural movement, illustrated to the fullest in terms of the Roma nian historical writing by the representatives of the Transylvanian School.","PeriodicalId":23235,"journal":{"name":"Transylvanian Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2024-01-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140509750","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Blood Revenge in Montenegro and the Code of Danilo, Prince of Montenegro (1851–1860)","authors":"Miroslav Doderović, Budimir Aleksić","doi":"10.33993/tr.2023.3.05","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33993/tr.2023.3.05","url":null,"abstract":"The opinion that blood revenge was definitively eradicated in Montenegro during Danilo’s time ran into very serious difficulties and could not be maintained. Its serious traces, although not in the classic form, are encountered not only in the 19th but also in the 20th century. By 1870, Danilo’s code was in full force, and since then 40 of its “articles” have remained in force.","PeriodicalId":23235,"journal":{"name":"Transylvanian Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2024-01-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140510076","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"In Search of Lizzie Borden: Between Fact and Fiction","authors":"Jelena Knežević, Aleksandra Nikčević-Batrićević","doi":"10.33993/tr.2023.3.06","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33993/tr.2023.3.06","url":null,"abstract":"The paper discusses the representation of Lizzie Borden in true-crime and crime-fiction prose texts, as well as in a stage production. It centers on the hypothesis of sociocultural aspects which constitute the accounts written about her and feminist readings. Regardless of genre, these nar ratives portray Lizzie Borden in various ways—from a female tormenter to a guilt-free spinster. Both true-crime books and crime-fiction novels, together with the ballet, are modified by socio cultural factors and are also subject to intertextuality. In addition, the lines between fiction and non-fiction literary works of primary concern are blurred.","PeriodicalId":23235,"journal":{"name":"Transylvanian Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2024-01-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140509570","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Histoires parallèles: Démétrius Cantemir et François II Rákóczi","authors":"Ștefan Lemny","doi":"10.33993/tr.2023.3.02","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33993/tr.2023.3.02","url":null,"abstract":"In the wake of the work aimed at comparing Demetrius Cantemir (1673?–1723) with various \u0000outstanding political and cultural personalities, this study proposes a comparative lecture with his \u0000illustrious contemporary Transylvanian Prince Francis II Rákóczi (1676–1735). Reigning in the \u0000two neighbouring principalities of Moldavia and Transylvania, the two princes stand out at Euro pean political level in the context of confrontations for the domination of this region between \u0000the Ottoman, Russian and Austrian empires. This comparative approach to the two personalities \u0000is not based on consistent testimonies of how each of the two protagonists considered the other, \u0000but their lives give many reasons for doing it. Representing two different princely traditions, they \u0000experienced the same hardships of a childhood marked by the death of one of their parents, and \u0000shared the same ambition for an exceptional education that provided them a prestigious place \u0000among the intellectual elites of the time. Their personalities are closer in many respects to their \u0000political action, particularly through the struggle to win independence for their principalities and \u0000the adventure of exile. Nothing, however, is as revealing as their intellectual work, which allowed \u0000them to gain recognition in the Republic of Letters of the time and, subsequently, in cultural his tory, far beyond boundaries of their principalities. A comparative analysis of the two personalities \u0000may therefore be of interest in order to better understand their role in the history of the Carpa tho-Danubian principalities at an important moment in the transition to the modern era, and to \u0000better highlight the exceptional richness of Demetrius Cantemir’s intellectual work.","PeriodicalId":23235,"journal":{"name":"Transylvanian Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2024-01-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140509584","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Time in Dimitrie Cantemir’s \u0000Sacro-sanctae Scientiae \u0000Indepingibilis Imago (1700)","authors":"Vlad Alexandrescu","doi":"10.33993/tr.2023.3.01","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33993/tr.2023.3.01","url":null,"abstract":"Educated in Constantinople in the last decades of the 17th century, Dimitrie Cantemir (1673–\u00001723) encountered, on the one hand, the Paduan Aristotelianism transmitted by the Greek philo sophical teachers trained in Venice and Padua, and, on the other, was inspired by a Platonic, \u0000Neoplatonic and Pseudo-Dionysian tradition, still alive in Eastern Christian thought. Written \u0000after a thorough study of the work of J. B. van Helmont, his treatise on time echoes these mul tiple roots and proposes a conception of time which affirms the non-categoriality and neutrality of \u0000the notion of time, its continuous, uniform, immovable, non-successive, immiscible, immutable \u0000character, distributive in the singular time of each creature (according to the model of Platonic \u0000participation), its participation in eternity, the emanation of eternity from the divine Intellect, and \u0000the precedence of time over Creation","PeriodicalId":23235,"journal":{"name":"Transylvanian Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2024-01-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140509704","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}