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    STUDIA PHILOLOGIA - Issue no. 4 / 2011  
         
  Article:   BETWEEN PROLOGUE AND MINIATURE – THE “MEANING OF HISTORY”: NOTES ON THE HYPOSTASES OF A WOMAN IN LOVE IN THREE ROMANIAN MANUSCRIPTS FROM THE END OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY.

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  Abstract:  Between Prologue and Miniature – the “Meaning of History”: Notes on the Hypostases of a Woman in Love in Three Romanian Manuscripts from the End of the Eighteenth Century. This study analyses two of the most representative popular books of the period, The History of Erotocrit and Aretusa and The History of Filerot and Anthusa, focusing not only on the textual body of these narratives but also on the “theoretical” contribution of their Prologues and on the imagery of the miniatures from these valuable manuscripts. These popular romances explore the hypostases of a powerful, self-assertive femininity, confident in its spiritual force and attributes, which seeks to impose itself also as a social force to be reckoned with in a society where marriage represents a contract, and the idea of a couple still precludes the protagonists’ rights to individual freedom.

Keywords: Woman in love in eighteenth century; love as pharmakon; forbidden love; emancipation of woman, loci communes of the courtly romances in the Romanian Popular Books. 

  
         
     
         
         
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