CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2022
| Author | Sorinca, Bogdan |
|---|---|
| Title | Shifting Materialities under Habsburg Expansion: The Evolution of the Transylvanian Manor House in Early Modernity |
| Summary | In the following study, I will be exploring, on the one hand, the formative period and mental landscape in and through which Transylvanian aristocratic residences of the early modern period were designed and understood as both homes and symbols of power in the rural landscape. On the other hand, I will also be looking at these manor houses from a present-day perspective, aiming to understand how, historically, state-level monuments’ preservation policies have been unable to treat such sites in their coherent contexts, resulting in their current situation as a critically endangered heritage field. In reconstructing the early contexts of these sites, I will confront two sets of data: ego documents written by late seventeenth century Transylvanian aristocrats, followed by a combination of evaluations of their own residences and slightly later (early eighteenth century) noble houses. |
| Supervisor | Jaritz, Gerhard; Sebők, Marcell |
| Department | Medieval Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2022/sorinca_bogdan.pdf |
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