“... CU SCRISORILE TALE ÎMI ASTÂMPĂRAM FOCUL CE-MI ARDE ÎN PIEPT”. CORESPONDENŢA INTIMĂ DINTRE LOCOTENENTUL NĂSĂUDEAN GEORGE POP ŞI ANICA POPOVICI (1855–1856)
“... WITH YOUR LETTERS APPEASET THE FIRE INSIDE MY BREAST”. INTIMATE CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN LEUTENANT GEORGE POP AND ANICA POPOVICI (1855-1856)

Summary/Abstract: The intimate correspondence in the 19th century is an incontestable historiographical use in what concerns the history of the collective mentalities by the valuable information on the correspondents’ life experiences, social life, and people or events around them. The present study aims to offer a sample of how love worked at the mid of the 19th century and the way to express such feelings taking the love letters (annexed) of lieutenant George Pop in Năsăud and Anica Popovici, in Craiova, for the main source. The unpublished documents are preserved in fond Anton Coșbuc – the National Archives of Romania, Service of Bistrița- Năsăud County. We will try to give answers to the following questions: Who were George Pop and Anica Popovici? How did they meet and how did their relation work? What does the analysis of the two ones’ language tell us on the love relations in the mid of the 19th century? Who were the people around them and how was the daily life then? To answer to, we would analyze and interpret the intimate correspondence between the two personages, using other utile sources especially to draw down the lieutenant’s biography.

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