YEARBOOK OF THE A. D.

XENOPOL INSTITUTE OF HISTORY

Tome LII, 2015

CONTENTS

STUDIES AND ARTICLES

MIDDLE AGES
ADRIAN IONI, BEATRICE KELEMEN, ALEXANDRU SIMON, From the Arge I
Church to the Arge II Church: The Times of Wallachia and of the Princely
St. Nicholas Church . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
DANIEL MIREA, Vladislav and the Elucidation of a Historical Puzzle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
IULIANA STAVARACHI, Craftsmen and Merchants in the Neighbourhood Muntenimea
(17th Century First Half of 19th Century). Spatial and Chronological Distribution . . . . 79

LAW, ECONOMY, SOCIETY

MIHAI MRZA, Violations of the Foundational Right: The Trials of Un-Dedicating the
Precista Mare Monastery in Roman (18th19th Centuries) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
SORIN GRIGORU, The Judgement Caused by the Claim of the Three Hierarchs
Monastery Over the Estates from Mirceti and Cozmeti (1837) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
LORND L. MDLY, FRITZ MITTHOF, The Juridical Status of Found Objects at the
beginning of the 19th Century. The Laws Regarding the Found Objects and their
Practice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
LAURA STANCIU, The Institutional Relation between the Mitropolia of Esztergom and
the Romanian Uniate Church from Transylvania. The 1850 Episode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195

AVATARS OF MODERNIZATION
MARIUS CHELCU, Procopie Florescu: the Portrait of an Official from the 19th Century . . . . 209
DIONISIE LIBONI, Between Limits and Realizations: Bureaucratical Modernization in
the Period of Service of Lev Perovskii (18411852) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221
COSMIN MIHU, The National Party from Wallachia (18371840). Ideological Identity
and Manifestations in the Public Space . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229
MIHAI CHIPER, Iai under the Hakhams Knife. Economic Anti-semitism in the
Prohibition of Treif Meat (18671868) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245
ANDREI CUCO, The Church Question in the United Principalities and the Romanian
Kingdom Through the Lens of Russian Imperial Discourse (18601914): between
Continuity and Change . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269

Anuarul Institutului de Istorie A. D. Xenopol, t. LII, 2015, p. IVIII, 1492

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RELATIONS INTERNATIONALES
BOGDAN-ALEXANDRU SCHIPOR, The German Occupation of Latvia, 19411944.
Some Controversial Issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287
VERONICA TURCU, A Secret Diplomatic Document about Some Plans Related to the
Abdication of King Michael of Romania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303
PAUL NISTOR, Diplomatic Relations Between United States of America and Communist
Romania During 1957 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311

RECENT PAST
GABRIELA GRUBER, Gheorghe Brtianus Political Action and Destiny After his
Returning into the Romanian National Liberal Party (19381953) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331
MIHAELA BOTNARI, Romanian-Soviet Collaboration in Education. Romanian Students
in Soviet Union (19461956) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367
SORIN D. IVNESCU, The Involve of Securitate in the Agriculture Collectivization
Process in Romania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383
ALEXANDRA TOADER, The Anatomy of the Anti-communist Manifestos in the 40s
and 50s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397
AURELIA VASILE, Networks and Strategies for the Distribution of the Romanian
Cinema in France from 1950 to 1954 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409
CRISTINA PREUTU, Means of Communist Propaganda. Political Strategies of the
Introduction of Color Television in Romania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425

BOOK REVIEWS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 439

BIBLIOGRAPHIC NOTES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 457
JOURNALS REVIEW . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 471
SCIENTIFIC LIFE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 475
IN MEMORIAM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 487
ABBREVIATIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 491