Course I.3107A · Year III · Autumn 2026-2027

CULTURE AND CIVILIZATION IN ROMANIAN SOCIETY IN MODERN EPOCH

Elective (1 of 3) course in History, taught by Laura-Claudia Stanciu.

Overview

Lecturer
Laura-Claudia Stanciu
Seminar tutor
Laura-Claudia Stanciu
Type of course
Elective (1 of 3)
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
Introduction to Modern History of Romanians; History of Romanian Historiography

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 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.

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.

Assessment

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

Recommended reading

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