MARELE RĂZBOI ÎN MEMORIALISTICA ROMÂNILOR DIN SEBEŞ
The Great War in the Romanian’s Memoirs from Sebeş

Summary/Abstract: Our study, entitled ,,The Great War in the Romanian’s Memoirs from Sebeş”, is dedicated to the general analysis of the memoirs elaborated by the Romanians from Sebeş (belonging to the philosopher Lucian Blaga, to captain Ilie Stricatu, priest Sebastian Stanca, engineer Dorin Pavel and lieutenant-colonel Ioan Guţia). From this research, the reader can take a series of information related to the memoirs of the Great War elaborated by the Romanians from Sebeş, to the faces and the particularities illustrated, to the political, military, economic and cultural history of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy, the images or the events presented which describe the image of a harsh period, the experiences or the feelings proved by the authors mentioned above. At the same time, the present study has been thought as a starting point for researching the memoirs, in which one can find the beginnings of a historiography of the Great War, as the historian Valeriu Leu has precisely mentioned. Our study is published in the year of the centenary of the Great Union and aims to celebrate a series of remarkable personalities from Sebeş who have provided us with very important memoirs referring to the First World War. We have tried and we think that we have succesfully underlined the major aspects of the memoirs dedicated to the First World War elaborated by the Romanians from Sebeş, our research can be considered an interdisciplinary approach that brings together history, philology, theology and social psychology. Due to this study we have managed to fill a gap in the cultural history of Sebeş and also to emphasize another perspective of some remarkable personalities, we mean the authors of memoirs of the Great War.

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