Nelu ZUGRAVU (Centrul de Studii Clasice și Creștine, Facultatea de Istorie, Universitatea „Alexandru Ioan Cuza” din Iași)
CROCHIURI DE PORTRETE IMPERIALE ÎN ISTORIOGRAFIA DE LA SFÂRȘITUL SECOLULUI AL XIX-LEA ȘI ÎNCEPUTUL SECOLULUI AL XX-LEA
Keywords: modern historiography, emperors, portrait sketches, stylistic ways, Xenopol, Pârvan, Traian.
Abstract: Sketches of imperial portraits in late 19th and early 20th century historiography. We analyze below some Romanian historiographical works from the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century in which imperial biographical sketches are found. In this sense, from the point of view of the method, the content and the finality of the works, we have identified three stylistic ways of creating portraits of sovereigns: a neutral one, close to the model of complex monographs of sovereigns; a scientific-encomiastic one, in which objective historical analysis sometimes slips into rhetorical and patriotic speech; finally, a predominantly encomiastic one, in which the deeds and character of the sovereigns are idealized to the point of improbability.