Entangled images : Romanians and Hungarians from the Middle Ages to the Communist regime /

"L'Image de l'Autre (The Image of the Other) explores the Romanian-Hungarian reciprocal images, a key topic in historical imagology, cultural anthropology, and social psychology. As one of Europe's most significant imagological pairs, their symbolic interactions offer insights in...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mitu, Sorin, 1965- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Berlin ; New York : Peter Lang, [2025]
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Table of Contents:
  • The roots of coexistence
  • At first sight: Hungarians on Romanians
  • Romanians pick up the imagological baton
  • Popular images: Hungarians are curs, Romanians are curs unless they have swine
  • Indignant Nobles, Desperate Peasants, and Enlightened Clerks
  • ...And the good old Hungarian feelings: Romanians, our noble savages
  • The barbaric tyrants
  • The Romanians under Hungarian rule
  • Hungarians with Wallachian lips or Daco-Romanian irredentists?
  • Changing empires
  • What shall we do about the Hungarians in greater Romania?
  • The Hungarians under Romanian rule
  • Romanian and Hungarian workers, unite!
  • Romanian or communist? Pătrășcanu, Groza, Dej, Ceaușescu
  • The Hungarians: under Romanian communist rule
  • The dangerous game of falsifying history.