VIOLENŢA POLITICĂ EXPRIMATĂ CA DISCURS AL PUTERII ÎNTRE TRADIŢIE ŞI MODERNITATE ÎN PRINCIPATELE ROMÂNE
Violence as Power Discourse in the Romanian Principalities between Tradition and Modernity

Summary/Abstract: The study of violence as power discourse in the Romanian principalities represents an almost new step in the Romanian research (historical, sociological, anthropological) field. there are scarce bibliographical references corresponding to the topic and, with few exceptions, they are tributary to a concept that regards the violent acts of the ruling political power only as devices of domination, not also as political language, as a means of communication of the ruling power with the society. The analysis of violence as power discourse allows the identification of credible answers related to a certain conformation of the Romanian political culture during pre-modern times, which combines punishment with forgiveness for power’s confirmation renewal, in a deeply ritualized context, in order to impose a governing model in which the personal will of the hospodar was the law. Another relevant direction of research approaches the phenomena specific to the transition to modernity in the Romanian principalities, only tangently touched in some speciality studies: legal violence and codes of law, the particular political role of bans and investigations of political opponents of the regime, which had the tendency to devote the untouchability of the princely authority and its capacity to place itself above the law.

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