Pro Refrigerio Animae: Death and Memory in East-Central Europe: Fourteenth-Nineteenth Centuries

This is an edited collection of studies by international scholars on the interlocking themes of attitudes and discourses on death, commemorative practices and inheritance/testamentary strategies in the Balkans and East-Central Europe.

Angela Jianu studied English and classics at the University of Bucharest in Romania and obtained a PhD in history from the University of York (UK) in 2004. She currently works as an independent historian, copy editor, and translator. Her publications include: ＂Women, Fashion and Europeanisation in the Romanian Principalities,＂ in Women in the Ottoman Balkans, eds. Amila Buturovic and Irvin C. Schick (2007) (trans. into Turkish as Osmanlı Dőneminde Balkan Kadinlari, 2009); Earthly Delights - Economies and Cultures of Food in Ottoman and Danubian Europe, c. 1500-1900, eds. Angela Jianu and Violeta Barbu (Brill, Leiden, 2018).

Gheorghe Lazăr is a senior research fellow at the ＂Nicolae Iorga＂ Institute of History (Bucharest, Romania), co-editor (with Violeta Barbu) and coordinator of the collection of mediaeval documents Documenta Romaniae Historica B. Wallachia, published by the Romanian Academy (10 volumes, 1998-2016). He obtained a PhD in history at Laval-Québec University in 2005. His doctoral dissertation was published in 2006 as: Naissance et ascension d’une catégorie sociale: Les marchands en Valachie (XVIIe-XVIIIe siècles) (Romanian Academy Award 2008). His published works include edited documents of social, economic, and family history: Mărturie pentru posteritate: Testamentul negustorului Ioan Băluţă din Craiova (2010); Documente privitoare la negustorii din Ţara Românească, vol. 1 (1656-1688), vol. 2 (1689-1714) (2013, 2014); Testamente de negustori şi meşteşugari din Ţara Românească (secolele XVII-XIX), 2021.