REX SALUTIFER. IMAGINEA REGELUI CAROL I ÎN MEMORIA COLECTIVĂ DIN ROMÂNIA (1866-1881)
Rex Salutifer. The Perception of Carol I In Romanian Collective Memory (1866-1881)

Summary/Abstract: In the political background of the second half of the XIX-th century, the king was perceived, in Romanian context, as a providencial personage, a rescuer for the great problems the Romanian society was confronted to. The king’s perception decomposes into into different variants according to the qualities of his real and symbolic person. The two reprezentations of him, the real one the divine one, are retrieved in public oppinion. Those are the first reprezentations in the folklore imaginary. The king is a godlike person, a master and he has qualities that assessors themselves already give to him: rescuer, retriever, sacrificer, thaumaturge, judge, worier etc. It is important that the Romanian perception of the king is related to the European perceptions of the emperors, for instange the German one. The Romanians perceived, first, the image of Carol I as a rescuer and then other specific reprezentations occur: strategist, crusader, triumphal, judge, and as the highest quality he was regarded as „pater patriae”.

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