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Symbols represent a means by which complex ideas difficult to verbalize in natural languages are conveyed to the people who belong to the same culture; they agglutinate rich series of metaphors or associations. This paper starts from the assumption that initial 'primitive' human emotional reactions to nature turned into mythological explanations and eventually into beliefs conveyed from a generation to another. Stone as a symbol is as old as mankind. It has preserved its original significance: the rock and the hole in the rock (grotto, cave) represented a protective space associated to the womb, Mother Earth. Stone signifies strength, resilience, durability, eternity and points to the passage from the profane to the sacred, as can be illustrated by oronyms and toponyms in Romanian culture. As building material for shelters, places of worship and graves, stone has become a symbol of cultural transmutation assimilated to the act of creation and to the passage from obscurity to light. Stone represents the result of global perception which does not follow the logic of conceptual reasoning; it is multidimensional and communicates with other symbols while expressing various relationships: ephemeral-eternal, history-eternity, immanenttranscendent. This paper investigates which particular meanings have been attached to the symbol of stone in Romanian culture. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Rusului Convent, nowadays situated on the territory of Galaţi county and, previously, on the territorial units of Tutova and Covurlui (it shifted from one unit to another, according to the fuctuations of the administrative system) has a little known past. At times, its history was approached by researchers as a result of its proximity to Adam monastery, a more attractive and better known historical objective. The recovered records don't allow the composition of a complete historical monograph. The historiographic researches led to yet limited results, such as brief accounts regarding the monastic life within that area. Rusului Convent is one of the many small sized monastic establishments which testify about the Orthodox ascetic life on these lands and also about the vocation the Romanians had for monastic life. We don't have any data regarding the participation of the convent in the cultural life of the area or about any teaching activity carried by its members. The present paper attempts to collect and interpret the information already known by the researchers and also several unedited documents found by us within the archives. In future, these may the researchers in writing a monograph of the convent. The paper includes several documents from the period 1695-1849, dealing with this establishment. Nevertheless, the history of the convent still has many big gaps that require further research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Literary history is still the most successful strategy of systematizing knowledge in Romanian academe and, although the theoretical revolution that took place in literary studies between 1960-1990 did not leave it unscathed, it remains the methodological anchor of every attempt at trying to make sense of the entirety of a specific culture. In this paper I analyze Mihai Iovănel’s new History of Contemporary Romanian Literature and whether it succeeds in revolutionizing (methodologically or in terms of cultural analysis) an old and robust genre of explanation, in an intellectual culture that is otherwise enamored with dictionaries, encyclopedias and all-encompassing narratives of the past. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper discusses how the culture and the use of digital technologies can support a change of the training of intercultural competences in the teachinglearning- assessment process, in order to better respond to the needs of the education system. Nowadays, the interconnection between education and culture cannot be analyzed, through the discussion and selection of best practices, without identifying the role played by technology in this process. The integration of digital technology in training programs at all levels, from primary school to higher education and continuing professional development, now applies to everyday pedagogical life being influenced by the intercontextual and intercultural dimensions. Digitalization in education requires drawing the coordinates that, in addition to training and developing the digital skills of educational agents, transpose digital citizenship through ethical conduct, taking into account the social, cultural and philosophical diversity of digital in society. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Our paper analyses the Romanian literary life from the post-war period, with a special interest on the articles published in the pages of the journal „Vatra” in 1978 [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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During the course of the following paper I aime to investigate possible reasons for the impressive results that countries in East and South-East Asia have obtained at the PISA examinations that take place every three years. These examinations include three tests: Math, Science and Reading. What I have found is that there are more than one reasons that contribute to this type of succes. The main three that I have chosen to present are first and foremost: an unique cultural climate where education is highly prized by the members of the community and the role of teachers is aknowkedged as being central to the development of society. Secondly, different parenting methods can also be cited as influencing educational outcome. Thirdly, we have an education system that has a strong and well funded public school system but also a vast network of options outside the state provided system that includes cram schools, language schools and online schools, parents there showing a very high willingness to invest in extra classes and educational options outside the public education system. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to describe the museum relationship with the virtual world before the COVID-19 pandemic began. Once again, in this sad times it is demonstrated how important it is for us, the people, but also the institutions that we are creating, to be in a deep and meaningful relationship. There are great examples of how some museum managed to succeed in forming a relationship between the museum and the internet that dominates our lives so much. In the digital heritage, the term „cosmopolitism" can and will be understood better than ever. Everything is connected and also the culture is connecting us. However, can culture overcome this pandemic unscathingly? Of course, it is too soon to tell, but, in the post-COVID-19 era, we can aim to create great projects that are going to bring our culture and our cultural institutions much closer to the public, even if they are home. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The knowledge of a new culture always starts with the process of learning the language spoken by its representatives. The pluriculturalism and plurilingualism spread in the European area cease to represent some forms of differentiation, delimitation of people and peoples, but on the contrary, it ensures cultural and political integrity, encourages empathy and understanding. The evolution of these phenomena lies in the urgent need to form connections, to identify the links necessary to facilitate the communication process. The Romanian language, a component integrated to the European pluricultural phenomenon, extends its area of use, which increases the interest for studying it as a foreign language. The primary purpose of promoting the Romanian language as a foreign language in the academic environment is the affirmation and perpetuation of the Romanian linguistic and cultural identity. Being one of the oldest languages in the European space, Romanian has always been the target of linguists and historians, and now it becomes a link that facilitates the connection with the surrounding world. This paper aims to present the Romanian language as an object of study and to point out goals and benefits (development of communication skills, access to knowledge, professional mobility) that make a foreigner to learn it. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The paper focuses on the question of strong women and the concept of travesty in the novel Baltagul written by M. Sadoveanu. The text is centred on a strong female character, thus giving birth to a tradition, a literary topos that of the widow. Treated as a role, a cultural stereotype, Vitoria Lipan uses it to subvert an entire patriarchal culture. The relationship with the concept of travesty - itself a dimension of the carnavalesque - is put is analysed, starting from the following components: the suspension of the existing moral order, the temporary release under the power of the dominant truth, assuming liberties otherwise forbidden, the predilection for wearing a mask, the inversion of social roles, overturning binary oppositions that describe world hierarchies. The main character undertakes a journey that for herself means entering a new world, that of men, and into the language. Vitoria plays a role which she uses as a shield; under its protection she attacks the dominant moral order. Her behaviour is transgressive, her language aggressive; is stands for the liberties that she is ready to assume. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Each society has its own culture, representing the mental configuration of its carriers, which provides them with a set of tools designed to facilitate solving the multitude of problems related to the existence and activity of both individuals and the entire society. The present paper analyzes two of the known ways of approaching culture: the qualitative one, through the cultural values and the quantitative one, represented by the cultural dimensions. The author studies the specific elements of each approach, the connection between cultural values and dimensions, and proposes the concept of Cultural archetype, in an original sense, independent of those that can be identified in the specialty literature. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper discusses current challenges of the welfare regime in Romania, from the standpoint of postmodern cultural changes that started to affect society. Acording to the main argument, Romania is intertwined with other societies that have already underwent through fundamental changes due to increasing postmodern cultural orientation. Such process comes together with a need for individualization of intervention, due to individualization of needs. Delocalization and denormalization overlap individualization, in a world dominated by mobilities. The paper delves with the basic characteristics of these changes and shows how they already affect or may affect Romania in the near future, in specific domains such as family, education, or housing. International migration is in particular addressed, since Romania is experiencing a large and long-lasting out-migration flow. Changes in technologies are used as material basis for future changes, while cultural preferences and their changes are the red line for all subchapters. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Academics' have always had an interest in creativity, although the literature on this subject began to develop once the rate of progress in science, technology and other fields started to increase. Currently, it is generally considered that the countries with a less creative population will fail to be competitive at an international level. This principle can easily be applied in the business environment, where creativity is needed in order to innovate and to gain competitive advantage. The paper focuses on creativity in a specific economic sector: the hotel industry, aiming at highlighting the way this extremely needed ability is influenced by cultural values. As a result, the paper presents the influence of three of Hofstede’s socio-cultural values (individualism, power distance and long term orientation) on employees' creativity in the Romanian hotel industry. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of the present paper is to perform a critical survey of the ongoing transformation, evolution and challenges of culture as it is modeled by the global information society. There is a paradigm shift, from the traditional concept of culture to the adaptation of culture production and consumption in keeping with technological progress - from the printed age to the digital age, from Guttenberg to Google. Thus, the paper also examines the new set of concepts and catchphrases that has emerged as a response to the pressing need of creating a new vocabulary appropriate for the novel and rapid changes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Intercultural research has been an extremely attractive field to many researchers. However, it raises many questions and the answers require consideration of some very important theoretical and methodological aspects, which we aim to present in this paper without claiming to exhaust them all. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Prehistoric exchanges are a highly interesting topic, due to their connection with the whole economic and social system and to the great impact the circulation of people, assets and ideas has upon the genesis and the evolution of a culture. The paper analyses several aspects of the exchange relations among the communities of Cucuteni culture. By "exchange", the author means all those freely agreed social relations, through which the mutual transfer of material or cultural goods, among the members of one or more communities. Therefore, by "exchange", we refer to economic exchanges, to the ceremonial exchanges that play an important role in the enhancement of social cohesion, in establishing alliances and hierarchies, in appeasing the conflicts. We also refer to some other non-material exchanges, such as offering various services, hosting, using the polite language (both in its oral form and as gestures) and the transfer of ideas, of knowledge, of spiritual values and so on. The exchanges take place on three highly connected levels: the exchanges among the members of the same community, the exchanges among the members of some neighbouring communities, the long-distance exchanges, which cross the borders of one culture and involve not only the members of Cucuteni culture but also those of some neighbouring cultures. The spatial distribution of the imports prove that the exchanges involving the Cucutenian communities followed two major axes: North-South and East-West, converging towards the Subcarpathic area of Moldavia. We claim that this convergence is a consequence of the existence, in that area, of resources of salt, controlled by the Cucutenian communities. Salt was a "strategic" resource for the economy of the Eneolithic agricultural communities. The exchanges of material assets with the neighbouring populations made possible the transfer of crafts, of aesthetical and spiritual values, which, having been assimilated by the Cucutenian cultures, contributed to the apparition of the specificities of this culture. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Romanians of Habsburg Bucovina (of the XIXth century) felt a stringent urge to have their own printing house. This matter took place back in 1848 when the Hurmuzaki brothers published the first Romanian paper entitled „Bucovina" (1848 1850) which appeared in two columns, one Romanian and the other German and had been edited by themselves. The Hurmuzaki paper had been printed at Ioan Eckhardt's printing house, at the times, the only printing house in Czernowitz, which was fairly missing necessary letter forms to print a Romanian newspaper. The Hurmuzaki brothers had tried to publish the paper in Lviv and Vienna, though the communication means being of significant difficulties and sacrifices, they insisted Ioan Eckhardt to procure the necessary letter forms to be able to print a Romanian newspaper. An attempt to obtain a concession for a printing house was made by the abbot of Putna Monastery, Artemon Bortnic, who requested an establishment of the diocesan printing house to the diocesan consistory back in 1853. The King did not approve the request for a Romanian diocesan printing house to be founded, although three of that kind, namely Petrowski, Czopp and Kerekjarto printing houses appeared in the meantime in Cernauti. In 1882, as a result of an incentive of the worthy Metropolitan Bishop Silvestru Morariu Andrievici it was decided to publish the church journal "Candela" which dates its first edition in July 1st, 1882 at the Wilhelm Kerekjarto's publishing house. The latter would later sell his own printing house to the Romanians who would start printing schoolbooks and „Candela" journal. The first founder of the Romanian printing house in Bucovina, called „Archbishopric Printing House", later to become part of the Metropolitan Residence, was the famous Romanian Metropolitan Bishop Dr. Silvestru Morariu Andrievici. The patron Metropolitan Bishop in quality of a vice president of the Association of Romanian Culture and Literature in Bucovina, proved a successful literary figure, author of numerous manuals, editor and spreader of Romanian culture in Bucovina. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The purpose of this written paper is to present the conclusions I reached after investigating in the following topic: the Norwegian author Knut Hamsun as the first modernist novelist in Norway. It is insisted upon the new type of literature he theorised upon in his programmatic article, The Life of the Subconscious. The work required a practical accomplishment, meaning an analysis of some of his novels. Hunger, his breakthrough novel, is the one that is given the most attentive analysis in this particular case. Modernist characteristics such as solitude, estrangement, revolt against the society and against the divinity are concepts that best support its positioning as the first modernist novel in Norway. The analysis on the film made after the book presents it in a different perspective. In order to come with a contribution to an interesting investigation of Hamsun's world, I have chosen to analyse Pan, another captivating work. The key-conflict of the novel, the one between nature and culture has pretty attentively been described. A comparison between two distinct writings, on the one hand, and modern, on the other hand, pertaining to the same author was the most compressed part of my written paper. This refers to Hunger and to what Pan has in common with it until a certain point of the analysis. The conclusion encompasses a reinforcement of what modernity signifies within the hamsunian universe, together with the sincere hope that an attentive reading will be useful for those interested in Knut Hamsun's misleading style. This article was presented at the Hamsun 2009 Conference during a workshop organized for young researchers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present paper is to argue for the premise that interpretation in postmodernity is at least a vector for the problematization of our contemporary culture: it raises questions (or builds equations) regarding the ending or the beginning of the process of (re)reading, depending on (a) context(s). In M. Foucault's understanding of the term problematization, as generator of parallel discourses, the paper is to propose directions for (re)reading, focusing on the idea that sense / meaning is revealed in questions. The starting point of the present argumentation is the idea of the complementarity of the syllogistic/ /demonstrative/ /dialectical questions (according to Aristotle's Topics) meant to highlight the complex relations between questions/ (re)readings and the plural meanings of a text. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper attempts to defi ne the term and the subsequent notions of security culture. Without pretending to be a comprehensive presentation, I would try to defi ne security culture’s principal elements, components and features. În fact, what's security if not the citizen's perception of the intelligence domain and services, within the social frame? Also I would try to analyze the degree of necessity for the solid culture of security, both for ordinary people and for the specialists of decision making personnel within the framework of national security. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper approaches, continuing former investigations over the libri transylvanici fund from Batthyaneum Library, 237 books printed in Sibiu, in the XVIIIth century and the first decades of the XIXth century. They are the result of skill and editorial policy pursued by some typographers, out of whom the following remarked: Martin Hochmeister, Johannes Barth et al. Similarly as in the previous cases, author of the paper argues affiliation of books to certain domains of cultural and political interest: calendars (6 copies); catalogues (15 copies); dictionaries (9 copies); didactic books (25 copies), juridical printings (30 copies), History volumes (47 copies), oratory (13 copies), political works (41 copies), periodicals (7 copies), theology (38 copies) etc. At the same time, more lecture notes or bookplates, evidencing circulation of works before entering the fund of encyclopedic book from Vauban Citadel, are valorised as well as their owners. In fact, there were established some libraries or private collections and institutional ones (Ignatius Batthyani, Johannes Aemilius Buczi, Stephanus Fangh, Michael Fogarassy, Nicolaus Kováts, Antonius Martonfi, Rezidence of Jesu Society from Sibiu and Odorhei etc.). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Given the fact that current migration waves do not have a specific approach and it is important to try to avoid most of the negative influences that could come from this phenomenon, I consider that there is another factor that could have a beneficial impact on these evolutions. But how can we speak about cooperation for development and stability when we do not know some aspects that can cause important disorders if they are not treated right? And that is one of the reasons why along with identity aspects, in this paper, I choose to study the demographic changes and challenges in the Black Sea Area, their involvements in security and how they could lead to conflict. This area can be considered a risk for security, because here there are a lot of contradictions and conflicts, most of them based on ethnic differences, territorial claims and energy disputes. But, beyond this, a new category of risks must be taken into account, so along with the main demographic phenomena and structural changes of population, I will also approach other aspects, because some trends will result in a redistribution of population that could lead to the amplification of the ethnic and religious sources conflicts. And regarding these possibilities, diplomacy and why not some public diplomacy techniques, could lead to stability in an area dominated by uncertainty and frozen conflicts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A market for ideas may be commonly viewed, more or less metaphorically, as the infrastructure of cultural life. The cultural welfare of a community depends on the "production and exchanges of ideas", be them science- or arts-based, which, besides symbolic signalling, exhibit the same economic properties as the goods and services they are embodied in. A market for ideas may be, in a sense, "priceless", since it may be relying on a somehow different kind of "value standard" ("truth-, goodwill-, beauty-, virtue- seeking") than the "mundane" intangible serviceability of tangible goods, but, in another sense, it uses labour, nature and capital, transformed and traded, all this in a world of scarcity where institutions (property rights) and (money) prices do matter. This paper will briefly explore on the genus proximum et differentia specifica regarding the work of the markets for ideas, on the one hand, and of the markets for goods, on the other hand, recollecting judgments on: a). the logic of "property rights" and of "pricesignals" (within such markets for ideas); b). the logic of freedom vs. regulation in markets for ideas (affected by "risks of failure"); c). the logic of national culture building, cultural awareness and cultural mimetism, in the case of Romania and the criticisms raised against the immaturity of its markets for ideas (as basic fundaments of cultural environments). We'll add, in a diachronic dialogue, under the aegis of paralleling the markets for ideas and those for goods, inter alia, F.A. von Hayek, R.H. Coase, T. Maiorescu, and H.R. Patapievici. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The aim of this paper is to identify how and if cultural diversity, as a fundamental and moral value of the EU, is effectively protected by EU law. I will start from the EU competences on cultural matters and try to find out if, while dealing with cultural issues, the EU is actually protecting its "unity without uniformity" and its "diversity without fragmentation". The recent and stronger intervention of the EU in cultural matters, after Lisbon, raises questions as to its real aims, be it the building of a stronger and stronger "small common denominator" in cultural issues as well, by means of uniformity or the real protection of cultural diversity of its Member States [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper deals with the case of French-Romanian translations from the Humanities field, published in Romania after 1989, and advocates the need of genuine translation policies, as both cultural and editorial strategies. Whereas during the 1990s, translations, especially those of reflexive books, were on the forefront of the pending book market, towards the 2000s, Romanian editors' enthusiasm for French Humanities seemed to have disappeared. It was the end of the translations' frenzy wave that coincided with the physical disappearance of great upholders of the so called "post-structuralist" thinking, better known under the Anglo-American label of "French Theory". (Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze and, in different ways, Bourdieu, Baudrillard, Virilio etc.). The change of an era (which, paradoxically, represents a globalization devoid of "global" key figures), entails a change in the way of acting, in the requirement for the multiplicity and continuity of contracts, in actions and aids, in micro-policies, in other words a change in the cross-cutting fittings of different entities, dimensions, scales and definitions. Since this is a turning point for small publishing houses (both French and Romanian), one should call, together with other relevant actors such as publishing companies and translators, for institutional and procedural imagination in order to reinvent and relaunch a potential model of critical culture, so much needed during the "crisis-globality" that characterizes the present era. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Our paper approaches from an epistemological perspective (and in relation with contemporary theories in the area of literary history, historical anthropology, sociology, evolutionary biology etc.) the theory of "synchronism" developed by Eugen Lovinescu in the 20s of the 20th century in order to re-construct its main statements and ideas. Thus we were able to determine the true meaning this theory holds for the romanian culture: that it is a part of a larger theoretical paradigm in romanian modern culture, a paradigm to which the theory of "forms without substance" proposed by Titu Maiorescu in the last decades of the 19th century and the ideea of "protochronism" formulated by Edgar Papu in the 70s of the 20th century equally belong. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the years 1934-1937, cultural "carlism" tends to have a special dynamic. The initiatives of King Carol the Second (1930-1940) gradually set up a genuine "cultural offensive", which coincides with the work of his foundations, respectively with the activity of cultural homes in villages and with a series of strategies aimed at spreading the literacy and popularizing reading. In the name of the monarchy, three main directions of cultural action are outlined. The first is related to the policy of spreading the literacy among peasants, the second to the activity of cultural houses, and the third to the initiatives of the royal student teams. But the three strategies are also conceived as a unitary policy, focused at the same time on nationalism, monarchism and sociological research methods theorized by Dimitrie Gusti. The rise of monarchic authoritarianism is forged and encouraged, besides the king, by a multitude of intellectuals, politicians and military, among which we mention Cezar Petrescu, Pamfil Șeicaru, Vladimir and Constantin Donescu, Nichi for Crainic, Mihail Manoilescu, Nicolae Iorga, Valer Pop, Ion Nistor and Ion Inculeț. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Concentrating on the Parisian diary Timpul trăirii-Timpul mărturisirii (A Time for Living - A Time for Confession) of the prominant Romania literary critic Eugen Simion, the paper proposes that, as an intellectual coming to the French capital at the beginning of the 1970s with the experience of what used to be termed "the communist camp", the author retrospectively construes the moment of May '68 and weighs its consequences with the feeling that he deals simultaneously with a form of "typological" past, a counterfactual present and an alternative future of his own domestic society and culture. As a committed Proustian, Eugen Simion experiments with transferring the experience of reverting the temporal flux, which is perfectly possible within the bounds of our personal memory, at the scale of the collective experience and of the civilizational processes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to study the comparative patterns of change suggested by Price Waterhouse (1995) in their book "A better change: Best practices for transforming your organization" and John Kotter (1996), in his book "Leading change". Price Waterhouse's and Kotter's change models are nearly identical in many aspects. In his book "Leading change", Kotter appears to have much of the same perspective as Price Waterhouse when it comes to culture, organizational change in general and vision. However, Price Waterhouse takes an approach that requires nearly every person to be on board with the organization's change program, whereas Kotter implies that the leader primarily focuses on stakeholders. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The paper considers the effects of globalization on visual arts. It offers proofs on international trade of culture objects, which is the grounds for investigation of ideas on "media imperialism" and estimation of statements on the influence of "the West" on "the rest of the world". The paper considers the movements of the works of popular and fine arts from industrialized nations towards developing countries, among the countries which are in the process of development and from the developing countries to the West, as well as the theories on the relations between global and local. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present paper aims at contextualizing and building a synthesis of Transilvania magazine in the post-revolution period. The portrait displays a comprehensive inventary of the material that was published after the year 1990 until the 2000s. The main themes around which the text is organized are Communism, translations and the mechanism of censorship, religion and the debates around the literary canon and its possible reconsiderations. Besides, the text intends to offer a depiction of the transitional years by means of certain editorial options and operational selections. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper aims to assess the contribution of St Anthimus the Iberian to the biblical study of his times, through his biblical printings and especially through his works preserved in the manuscripts Chipurile Vechiului şi Noului Testament (Images of the Old and New Testament). This assessment is based on the comparison with the biblical achievements of the ecclesiastical cultural milieu in Wallachia during the second half of the 17th century, aiming to emphasize the role assumed by Saint Anthimus, both in the printing and distribution of the text of the Holy Scripture and in interpreting the text. His work also known as the Illustrated Chronograph was for Saint Anthimus the most efficient instrument for the study of the biblical text, which he tried to exploit from a historiographic perspective. Taking into account all the aspects developed in this study, we reached the conclusion that the function offered by St Anthimus the Iberian to his work is a historical one, but its purpose is pastoral-formative, targeting directly the person of prince Constantin Brâncoveanu and indirectly the noblemen of the country. On the other hand, he also tried to open for the Romanian theological culture the perspective a profound theological approach of the Holy Scripture from a historiographic, isagogic and exegetic point of view. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Due to its real value, and also to its international recognition in many cases, the Romanian literature written in exile could be perceived as an unique phenomenon. The example of Vintila Horia, a writer who gained the Goncourt prize for his novel God was born in exile, a book translated in more than 40 languages and since then reprinted in many editions, gives proof of the quality of Romanian exile; the novel 25th Hour, by Constantin Virgil Gheorghiu, also translated and published in many idioms could be another example, as well as Constantin Amariutei who received the Rivarole prize, in 1955, for the novel Le Paresseux, and Prix de la Fondation del Duca for La Fiancee du silence, in 1957; Alexandru Busuioceanu, a poet, critic and historian of arts, a member of Academia de los Once, was another Romanian writer who received an important prize - Juan Valera, in Spain, and, as a poet, he was included in the important Histoire illustrée de la littérature espagnole. Thise kind of examples could continue. Unfortunately, in Romania, in some important histories of literature, their names and especially their books are often excluded. This ignoring reminds us the almost similar situation in the communist regime when the works of the intellectuals from exile were forbidden. Taking into consideration that the history of the Romanian literature cannot be complete and cannot have its real scientific value without the books published in exile, in our paper we point out the true situation of the current reception of the literature from exile. Actually, it is a pleading for the unity of Romanian literature anywhere it was created. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In Constantin Noica’s concern for philosophy, culture represents a constant landmark, both in European culture and in Romanian culture. In this paper, I've set myself the goal to point out an essential aspect that may build a functional idea of constructive critics: the metaphysical interpretation of culture. Constantin Noica uses fundamental metaphysical concepts (One, Multiple, ontological model) in order to create the image of the most consistent product of the Spirit, in a Hegelian meaning. The philosophical approach (the philosophy understood as metaphysics) of culture by Noica can be engulfed in a wider theory that encompasses other great Romanian scholars such as Lucian Blaga and Mircea eliade. The difference is that Noica remains faithful to an interpretative model on a line that unites the classic greek and the modern European thinking. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]