Course I.2203 · Year II · Autumn 2025-2026

ROMANIAN HISTORIOGRAPHY

Compulsory course in History, taught by Laura-Claudia Stanciu.

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Overview

Lecturer
Laura-Claudia Stanciu
Seminar tutor
Cornelia Popa Gorjanu
Type of course
Compulsory
Language of instruction
Romanian
Erasmus language
English
Domain
History
Field of study
History
Form of education
Full-time
Form of instruction
Class
Credit awarded by
Grade
Teaching methods
Lecture, conversation, exemplification.
Entry requirements
General Historiography; introduction to Modern History of Romanians.

Aims

Knowing, understanding and a correct using of fundamental ideas concerning concepts specific to Romanians Historiography.

Realizing a coherent Historiography discourse, with a pedagogic purpose as well as a scientific one.

Integration of Romanian Historiography in a broader context of European and World Historiography.

Course contents

1. Significance and periodization of Romania Historiography. 2. Medieval Historiography. 3. Humanist Historiography. 4. Pre-Enlightenment Historiography. 5. Romanian Enlightenment Historiography. 6. Pre-Romantic Romanian Historiography. 7. Romanian Romantic Historiography. 8. Romanian Romantic Historiography (post-revolutionary). 9. Affirmation of the critical thinking in Historiography. 10. The new critical thinking in Romanian Historiography. 11. The new generation of Romanian historians in Transylvania. 12. Romanian University Historical Schools. 13. Romanian Historiography in the Communist Period. 14. Romanian Historiography after 1989.

Learning outcomes

Clear expression in written communication; Interpretive approach; Critical and interpretive approach of the historical phenomenon in the European context.

Assessment

Written paper – interpretative essay – 60%; continuous assessment – 40%.

Recommended reading

Boia, Lucian, History and Myth in Romanian Consciousness, Budapest, 2000.
Bentley, Michael, Modern Historiography. An Introduction, London-New York, 2005.
Hitchins, Keith, The Identity of Romania, Bucharest, 2009.
Lemon, M.C., The Discipline of History and the History of Thought, London-New York, 2002.
Trencsényi, Balázs and Kopeček, Michal (eds), Discourses of Collective Identity in Central and Southeast Europe (1770–1945): Texts and Commentaries, Late Enlightenment - Emergence of the Modern National Idea, Budapest-New York, 2006.