Course aims:

Knowing, understanding and a correct using of fundamental ideas concerning concepts specific to Modern History.
Integration in a coherent structure of main theorizations and value landmarks recognised in Modern History as well as in connected domains
Knowing, understanding and a correct using of fundamental ideas concerning concepts specific to Modern History.

Course Entry Requirements:

Introduction to Modern History of Romanians; History of Romanian Historiography

Course contents:

1. Introductive course: From Enlightenment to 1900. 2. Romanian bourgeoisie: Its affirmation and confirmation in modern epoch. 3. The Romanians and the Habsburg ruling. 4. A laboratory of modernity: Romanian countries from the Phanariots to the royal monarchy. 5. Mentalities, private life – collective life in the modern history of Romanians. 6. Family and the Romanian modern civilisation. 7. Centre and periphery - urban and rural in the modern Romanian society, 8. Security and insecurity in Romanian civilisation. 9. Sociability and solidarity in ‘Romanian world’. 10. Cultural institutions and modernization rhythms for the Romanian world. 11. Cultural institutions and modernization rhythms for the Romanian world. 12. Romanian petitions in Transylvania. 13. Food and food habits in Romanian society. 14. Evaluation.

Teaching methods:

Lecture, conversation, exemplification

Learning outcomes:

• retrieval of written sources on the historical past; • establishing historical facts on the basis of historical sources and outside of these; • the concrete production of new historical knowledge on the basis of deeper insights within the study of an epoch and/or of a medium complexity historical subject.

Learning outcomes verification and assessment criteria:

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

Recommended reading:

Maria Crăciun, Ovidiu Ghitta (eds), Church and Society in Central and Eastern Europe, UPC, Cluj Napoca, 1998, 325.
Maria Crăciun, Ovidiu Ghitta (eds), Ethnicity and Religion in Central and Eastern Europe, UPC, Cluj Napoca, 1995, 243.
Hitchins, Keith, The Romanians, 1774-1866, APC, New York, 1996, 540.
Hitchins, Keith, A Nation Affirmed: The Romanian National Movement in Transylvania. 1860-1914, Enciclopedica, Bucuresti, 1996, 480.
Hitchins, Keith, The Identity of Romania, Enciclopedica, București, 2009, 280.