BOOK REVIEW: Alexandru Ciocîltan, „Comunitățile germane de la sud de Carpați în Evul Mediu (secolele XIII-XVIII)” [“The German Communities from South of the Carpathians in the Middle Ages (13th-18th Centuries)”], Brăila, Editura Istros a Muzeului Brăilei, 2015, 517 p., ISBN: 978-606-654-121-3

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dc.coverageSTUDIA UBB HISTORIA, Volume 62 (LXII), No. 1, June 2017, pp. 95-97en-US
dc.creatorȘTEFAN, Andrei-Alexandru
dc.date2017-06-30
dc.date.accessioned2026-02-21T19:39:28Z
dc.descriptionThe result of a daring doctoral research, Alexandru Ciocîltan’s volume contributes to the historiographical debate through a subject less familiar to the Romanian historical writing, though very rich in first-hand sources – the history of an ethno-confessional community surveyed throughout its entire existence, which had lasted for about five centuries. Put under the sign of several paradigms of historical research – covering local, minority or urban perspectives – the present work is a genuine milestone in this historian’s career, more and more specialized in decrypting the medieval and early-modern history of the German communities in Wallachia. The particularity of the subject allowed the author to undertake a rather exponential approach throughout the seven chapters of his book, which resulted in a linear yet convincing historical monograph, sometimes strongly polemic and demanding when confronting historiographical blunders. In this regard, Ciocîltan resorted to the latest contributions of present-day historians, without ignoring the previous and more or less valuable works, to the results of older or newer archaeological excavations, but also to a multitude of written sources of diplomatic and epigraphic nature, chronicles or reports of Catholic missionaries. From this point of view, perhaps the biggest problem faced by the less-initiated reader in the space, the periods and the themes under scrutiny, is the absence of a critical and broad survey of the primary sources in a distinctive part of this work, afar from the few such aspects mentioned in the introduction.en-US
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dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14637/1482
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherBabeș-Bolyai University / ARGONAUT PUBLISHING Cluj-Napoca, Romaniaen-US
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dc.rightsCopyright (c) 2017 Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai Historiaen-US
dc.rightshttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0en-US
dc.sourceStudia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai Historia; Volume 62, No. 1, June 2017; 95-97en-US
dc.source2065-9598
dc.source1220-0492
dc.source10.24193/subbhist.2017.1
dc.titleBOOK REVIEW: Alexandru Ciocîltan, „Comunitățile germane de la sud de Carpați în Evul Mediu (secolele XIII-XVIII)” [“The German Communities from South of the Carpathians in the Middle Ages (13th-18th Centuries)”], Brăila, Editura Istros a Muzeului Brăilei, 2015, 517 p., ISBN: 978-606-654-121-3en-US
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