From the History of Reading. Examples from the Romanian World (the XVIIth and the XVIIIth centuries)
From the History of Reading. Examples from the Romanian World (the XVIIth and the XVIIIth centuries)

Summary/Abstract: The purpose of this study is to analyze the manner in which the relationship between book and society has been delineated into premodern Romanian society. Succeeding François Furet, the French historian who turned the researches on the history of the books towards the receiver, we would like to emphases the feminist practices of reading, as they were established at the level of Wallachia and Moldavia’s elite. Our analysis is based on a comparative perspective. It emphases some studies of case, as they are resulted after the enquiry of the official papers of the Court, the denotation on the books pages, correspondence, chronicles, travel diaries. We would like to find out which were the reading genres preferences of the feminine elite during the XVIIth and XVIIIth centuries, what kind of image the women attracted by reading were able to pass on and if the masculine power, as representing the dominant culture, did really perceived them as “becoming intellectuals” or, on the contrary, they were looked on hostile.

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