Assistant Professor

The position meets the teaching and research needs of the BA programme developed by the Department of Medieval, Early Modern and Art History. The teaching language of the disciplines included in this teaching position is Romanian.

Candidates wishing to obtain the academic position of Assistant professor need to have a PhD in history, to have specialised in medieval and early modern history and to meet the necessary standard academic requirements relevant to this teaching position, while their scholarly activity and publications need to conform to the disciplines: Introduction to history of Middle Ages; History of Transylvania in the Middle Ages; The Cult of the Saints in the Middle Ages.

Topics
1.            The system of rulership in Europe: survival, transferal, change (Vth c. – XVth c.)
2.            The urban Renaissance and the medieval sense of community
3.            Devotion and spiritual identity in central and late medieval Europe
4.            Models of sainthood, reforms of the Church and lay religious life (Xith c. – XVth c.)

Bibliography
Robert Bartlett, Why Can the Dead Do such Great Things? Saints and Worshippers from the Martyrs to the Reformation. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2013
Robert Bartlett, The Making of Europe. Conquest, Colonization and Cultural Change, 950-1350, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993
Wim Blockmans and Peter Hoppenbrouwers, Introduction to Medieval Europe 300-1500, Fourth edition, London-New York: Routledge, 2023
Maria Crăciun, Elaine Fulton (eds.), Communities of Devotion. Religious Orders and Society in East Central Europe, 1450-1800, Farnham: Ashgate, 2011
Lidia Gross, Confreriile medievale în Transilvania (sec. XIV-XVI), Ediția a doua, revăzută și adăugită, Cluj-Napoca: Argonaut, 2009
Gábor Klaniczay, Santità, miracoli, osservanze nel medioevo. L’ Ungheria nel contesto europeo, Spoleto: Centro italiano di studi sull’ alto medioevo, 2019
Jacques Le Goff, Pentru un alt ev mediu. Valori umaniste în cultura și civilizația evului mediu, vol. I-II, București: Editura Meridiane, 1986
Jacques Le Goff (coord.), Omul medieval, Iași: Polirom, 1999
Bogdan Murgescu, Istorie românească - istorie universală (600-1800), Ediția a doua, revăzută și adăugită, București: Teora, 1999
David Nicholas, The Evolution of the Medieval World: Society, Government and Thought in Europe 312-1500, Harlow: Longman, 1992
Henri Pirenne, Orașele evului mediu, Cluj-Napoca: Editura Dacia, 2000
Susan Reynolds, Kingdoms and Communities in Western Europe 900-1300, Second edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997
The New Cambridge Medieval History, Volume V c. 1198-1300, edited by David Abulafia, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008
André Vauchez, Spiritualitatea evului mediu occidental: secolele VIII-XII, București: Editura Meridiane, 1994
Chris Wicham, Medieval Europe, New Haven/London: Yale University Press, 2016