YEARBOOK OF THE “A. D.

XENOPOL” INSTITUTE OF HISTORY

Tome LIV, 2017

HOMAGE TO PROFESSOR GHEORGHE CLIVETI

CONTENTS

STUDIES AND ARTICLES

IDEAS, MORES, INSTITUTIONS

DUMITRU VITCU, The Anxieties around a Divorce in the Moldavian High
Society in 1837 ................................ ................................ ..... 1
ȘTEFAN BÂRSAN, Eugeniu Carada in Paris (1880−1882) ......................... 19
IUSTIN GHERMAN, The Law of Maximum Fees and Communal Contributions
of 1893 in Conservative and Liberal Political Rhetoric ....................... 31
DANIELA BALAN, Alexandru Marghiloman and Conservatory Doctrine.
Tradition, Property and Religion ................................ ................. 51
ANDREI FLORIN SORA, In whose Service? The Administration and the Civil
Servants in “Occupied Romania”, 1916−1918 ................................ 63

EUROPE AND WE
REMUS TANASĂ, Echoes of Giuseppe Mazzini’s Savoy Expedition in “Albina
Românească” Publication of Iași (1834) ................................ ....... 89
ADRIAN-BOGDAN CEOBANU, “The Cultivated Boys” of Romanian Diplomacy
(1878−1885). Notes on the Annuals of the Personnel of Romania’s
Representation Abroad in 1881, 1882 ........................................... 97
ALEXANDRU ZUB, Unionist Discourse in a Serial Key ............................. 113
AGATA ŻABIEREK, KRZYSZTOF ŻABIEREK, Romanian occupation of
Pokuttya in 1919 ................................ ................................ .. 117
ELINOR DANUSIA POPESCU, Romania’s Honorary Consulates and Consuls
to the Great Western Powers in the Interwar Period. A Case Study:
Germany ................................ ............................................ 123
ADRIAN VIȚALARU, From Alexandru G. Florescu to Gheorghe Grigorcea.
The Chiefs of Diplomatic Mission of Romania in Poland (1919−1939) ..... 141

Anuarul Institutului de Istorie „A. D. Xenopol”, t. LIV, 2017, p. I−X, 1−402

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HISTORY OF CULTURE
CLAUDE-GILBERT DUBOIS, Between Myth and History, the Revised History
of the “Ten Fleaux”. The Christians’ “Persecution” in the First Centuries
of the Roman Empire ................................ .............................. 151
ȘTEFAN PETRESCU, The Greeks in Romania: The Travel Notes by an Athenian
Journalist at the End of the Nineteenth Century ................................ ...... 179
ANA LAURA BULIGA, Italian Drama Appearances on the Stages of Bucharest
(Nineteenth−Twentieth Centuries) ................................ .............. 195
CĂTĂLINA MIHALACHE, Romanian “National” Costume: Genesis of an
Identity Symbol ................................ ................................ .... 207

COMMUNISM YEARS
ALEXANDRA TOADER, The Disparity between the Genuine and the
Manufactured Image of the Power Holders During the First Years of
Communist Rule in Romania ................................ ..................... 229
VERONICA TURCUȘ, ŞERBAN TURCUŞ, Negotiations about Reopening the
Italian Church in Bucharest during the Atheocratic Regime .................. 239
SORIN D. IVĂNESCU, Operative Surveillance (Tracking) and Investigations by
Securitate between 1948−1958 ................................ .................. 273

HISTORIOGRAPHIC DEBATES
ANDI MIHALACHE, Hermeneutics and History: the Case of Hans Georg
Gadamer ................................ ........................................... 285
ASTRID CAMBOSE, “Răsfulgerații” (Thunderstruck Refugees): Official History
and its Denying Counterparts. Memoirs, Oral History, Nowadays Reportages
and Online Information as Alternative Sources of a Growing New Archive .... 317

DOCUMENTS
PETRONEL ZAHARIUC, A Contribution to the History of the Monastery of
Neamț. Two Registers and their Religious Items (1800 and 1856) ........... 335

BOOK REVIEWS ................................ ................................ ..... 371

SCIENTIFIC LIFE ................................ ................................ .... 391
ABBREVIATIONS ................................ ................................ .... 401