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Mihai-Bogdan Atanasiu

- UNIVERSITATEA "ALEXANDRU IOAN CUZA" IASI

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- FUNDATIA "INSTITUTUL ROMAN DE GENEALOGIE SI HERALDICA SEVER ZOTTA" (Romania)

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Curriculum Vitae (29/06/2023)

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High officials’ families in 18th century Moldavia. Identitary references and power manifestations Call name: P 1 - SP 1.1 - Proiecte de cercetare pentru stimularea tinerelor echipe independente
PN-III-P1-1.1-TE-2016-1312 2018 - 2020

Role in this project: Project coordinator

Coordinating institution: UNIVERSITATEA "ALEXANDRU IOAN CUZA" IASI

Project partners: UNIVERSITATEA "ALEXANDRU IOAN CUZA" IASI (RO)

Affiliation: UNIVERSITATEA "ALEXANDRU IOAN CUZA" IASI (RO)

Project website: http://http//www.highfamold.ro

Abstract:

The research project we propose has as a main theme the study of a segment of the social and political elite from Moldavia – the great boyar families – separated from the rest of the boyars on the criterion of power and the ability to ensure continuity of their presence in the central institutions of the country as high rank dignitaries. Our theme focuses on the study of the interference between the quality of high rank dignitary, on the one hand, and belonging to a great family of local boyars whose prestige (identity genealogy) and heritage made it stand out from the rest of the nobility, on the other hand, in order to identify the sources of power and the extent to which great boyar families represented (or not) a political elite in itself or just an administrative oligarchy whose power depended on the will and royal favor. Identifying a balance between these aspects, according to historical sources and specifics of the era, to the way in which these great families perceived themselves and how they used to legitimize their power, allow the knowledge of the true historical profile of this part of nobility, whether these great families were the political elite, based on an interdisciplinary study that will also consider the sociological and political science analyzes regarding the study of elites, with the priority of the historical investigation and methodology. In terms of chronological range that we have in mind, it includes the entire epoch called Phanariote, i.e. from 1711-1821, divided into three stages, each with its features in terms of our project, knowing that in the second half of the eighteenth century, especially after the reforms of Constantine Mavrocordat or in periods of foreign occupation, socio-political realities underwent profound changes.

Elites and power. Boyar conspiracies in Moldavia in the eighteenth century Call name: Projects for Young Research Teams - RUTE -2014 call
PN-II-RU-TE-2014-4-1665 2015 - 2017

Role in this project: Partner team leader

Coordinating institution: UNIVERSITATEA "ALEXANDRU IOAN CUZA" IASI

Project partners: UNIVERSITATEA "ALEXANDRU IOAN CUZA" IASI (RO)

Affiliation: UNIVERSITATEA "ALEXANDRU IOAN CUZA" IASI (RO)

Project website: http://www.conspmold.ro

Abstract:

The research project that we propose has as main theme of study the power, in its political, social, ideological and symbolic articulations.The historical investigation assumed focuses on 18th century Moldavia, with some chronological extensions, dictated by the necessity of a better historical understanding.We focus only on one problem, precisely circumscribed to the theme, but relevant as expression of the movements of men, interests, ideas in the political space, seen as a field of power. We have in mind those demarches among the elite, which took the form of some conspiracies, aiming to create solidarities for a plan, to obtain external support, with the purpose to renew the power, in accordance with the expectations of the society.The distinction between the ordinary intrigues of the boyars and these conspiracies is essential for our demarche, because it covers, in our understanding, a more complex reality.It is about assuming „in the sight of the country”, of a political act that proposed the overthrowing of the legitimate Prince,to whom they owed submission and obedience.Another dimension was the social one,the disobedient sought support in the depth of the society, based on the patronage relations, which derived from kinship and services, to confer power to their demarche.The texts proposed by the disobedient illustrate the aneed to claim assert the legitimacy of their act,to avoid,in the perception of the society,their placement in the register of a negative alterity

Moldavia’s Relations with Holy See and the Great Church (14th – 17th centuries) Call name:
CNCSIS ID-107 2008 - 2008

Role in this project: Partner team leader

Coordinating institution: UNIVERSITATEA "ALEXANDRU IOAN CUZA" IASI

Project partners: UNIVERSITATEA "ALEXANDRU IOAN CUZA" IASI ()

Affiliation: UNIVERSITATEA "ALEXANDRU IOAN CUZA" IASI ()

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