REGIMUL LIBERTĂȚII ÎN CULTURA VECHILOR SATE DEVĂLMAŞE ROMÂNEŞTI. UN STUDIU DE ISTORIE SOCIALĂ. PARTEA I
THE REGIME OF FREEDOM IN THE CULTURE OF OLD ROMANIAN DEVALMAȘ VILLAGES. A SOCIAL HISTORY STUDY. PART I

Summary/Abstract: In this article we set out to investigate the way in which the value of freedom appears and is understood in the culture of the old Romanian villages. We have developed this analysis with the stated aim of dismantling an old historical prejudice widespread among European historians that the moral and legal freedom of the peasantry is a late gain of modernity, one that members of agricultural communities will acquire in Europe only during the18-th century, more specifically with the "Great" French Revolution. According to this prejudice, before 1789 the European peasantry would have been from the beginning to the end a servitude class made up entirely of Serbs, some of whom had never enjoyed freedom before the Eighteenth Century. In the second part we will analyze some of the components of this regime of peasant freedom.

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