![]() Self- and Hetero-Reflection on Dying and Death in Transylvanian Saxon Culture of the 18th and 19th Centuries, the researcher Marian Z loag discusses the problem of self-defining in the case of the Transylvanian Lutheran cultural-confessional identity, altogether with the attitude towards dying and death, also exploring the gypsy religiosity, seen moreover as non-religiosity. Considérations iconographiques,, dealing with the Romanian iconography of death (the 18th-19th centuries). ![]() Methodologically alike, Cristina Bogdan conducts an original and comparative analysis in Visages de la Mort en Roumanie. Related to the last issue, the study synthesizes a parallel analysis on the Catholic, respectively Orthodox saints considered healers: especially the Catholic St. the relation between folk religiosity and the manifestations of plague), as well as the “prophylactic” value of the mediation of saints. Convergent to this subject, the author resumes the “European” types of fear related to sudden death (i.e. The iconography of the saints conjured against the plague, Silvia Marin-Barutcieff conducts analyses on the attitude towards violent, accidental death. Despite a few deficient aspects of the theme – the rituals before death, the brotherhood cemetery and the keeping of silence over the location of tombs – the documentation is a testimony of death that fills the blank spaces in the literature on “the natural death” In Western Europe and Transylvania facing Sudden Death. the most consistent of all are the obituaries in Juan de la Regla parish), Mihail Blaga lists in En torno a las actitudes ante la muerte en León durante los siglos XVI-XVII some of the attitudes towards death in Leon in the 16th-17th centuries. wills, books of different brotherhoods/confessions, local conciliums’ papers, epigraphies, iconographies in Leon area, etc. The Historians and the Perspective of the Cultural History on Death On basis of exhaustive information (i.e. 349 6 Introduction The volume Death and Society enlists the writings of certain specialists – historians, literary scholars, theologians, philosophers – from three different generations of researchers in Romania and Europe, trying to present some aspects of the modern investigation on the theme of death from an interdisciplinary perspective (cultural history, cultural anthropology, literary theory, history of art, philosophy, sociology of death, theology). 310 Isván Kiraly – Euthanasia, or Death Assisted to (Its) Dignity. 292 Georg Weber – Qualitative und quantitative Erforschung von Todesbildern in der Moderne Zwei soziologische Vorschläge. 282 Rodica Grigore – Faith, Silence and Death in Shusaku Endo’s Fiction. 260 Lucian Butaru – Immortality and Paradise in the Transylvanian Scientific Discourse on Eugenics before WW II. ![]() 249 Caius Dobrescu – The supreme Euphuism: Death as a Biedermeier Allegory. 215 5 ART HISTORIANS, LITERARY SCHOLARS AND SOCIOLOGISTS ON THE MODERN AND POSTMODERN THEMES REGARDING THE DEATH Dana Roxana Hrib – The Procuress, a Painting by Jan Gerritszoon van Bronchorst, and its Encrypted Messages of Death. 204 Mihaela Grancea – L’Epitaphe de Săpân a et la célébration de la vie. ![]() 157 Marius Rotar, Tudor Roşu – The Issue of Heroism and Death Seen by Transylvanian Romanians (from the Nineteenth to the First Half of the Twentieth Century). 143 Edit Szegedi – Between Necessity and Utopia: The Central Cemetery in Braşov. 118 Lumini a Dum nsecu – Forgotten Deaths Possible Research Directions Regarding the Deaths of Children. 79 Andi Mihalache – Heroes, Tombs and Statues: Poetics of Evanescence in the19th Century. Self – and Hetero – Reflection on Dying and Death in Transylvanian Saxon Culture of the 18th and 19th Centuries. 58 Marian Z loag – The Demise that Made the Difference. 32 Cristina Bogdan – Visages de la Mort en Roumanie. The Iconography of the Saints Conjured against the Plague. 13 Silvia Marin-Barutcieff – Western Europe and Transylvania facing Sudden Death. Mihaela Grancea (coord.) ♦ DEATH AND CIVILISATION TRANSDISCIPLINARY STUDIES 2 DEATH AND CIVILISATION TRANSDISCIPLINARY STUDIES Mihaela Grancea (coord.) Casa C r ii de Ştiin Cluj-Napoca, 2009 3 4 TABLE OF CONTENTS THE HISTORIANS AND THE PERSPECTIVE OF THE CULTURAL HISTORY ON DEATH Mihail Blaga – En torno a las actitudes ante la muerte en León durante los siglos XVI-XVII.
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