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Author Rotaru, Julieta, author.

Title The Wallachian gold-washers : unlocking the golden past of the Rudari woodworkers / Julieta Rotaru
Published Paderborn : Brill, 2023

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Contents Intro -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on the Use of Terminology -- Abbreviations -- List of Tables, Diagrams, Maps and Illustrations -- Introduction: Scope and Limits of the Study -- Chapter 1 Literature Review -- 1.1 The Linguists -- 1.1.1 While Mapping the Daco-Romanian Dialects: Gustav Weigand -- 1.1.2 Further Mapping: Atlas of Romanian Language II, Emil Petrovici and Ion Gheție -- 1.1.3 The First Description of a Dialect Spoken by Rudari in Romania: Ion Calotă -- 1.1.4 Towards a Comparative Dialectal Description: Nicolae Saramandu
1.1.5 The Dialectal Geography of the Rudari: Thede Kahl -- 1.1.6 Conclusions -- 1.2 The Ethnographers, Historians, Anthropologists -- 1.2.1 Paul Bataillard (1816-1894) -- 1.2.2 Martin Block (1891-1972) -- 1.2.3 A Momentum, Ion Chelcea -- 1.2.4 Further Ethnological Investigations in the Muscel Region -- 1.2.5 Recent Fieldwork in Oltenia -- 1.2.6 Conclusion -- 1.3 Sources -- 1.3.1 Cozia Monastery Registers -- 1.3.1.1 Description of the Manuscripts from ANIC -- 1.3.1.2 Previous Research -- 1.3.2 The 1838 Census of Population, Houses and Agriculture
Chapter 2 Wallachia, from its Rise until the Mid-Nineteenth Century -- Chapter 3 The Time and Space of the Gold-Washers -- 3.1 The Legacy from Antiquity -- 3.2 Renewal of Mining in the Middle Ages and early Modern Era -- 3.3 Conclusions -- Chapter 4 Different Names in Different Times -- 4.1 AURAR, pl. AURARI -- 4.1.1 The Rich Lexical Family of aur -- 4.1.2 First Occurrence of the Term aurar: the Case of Stanciul Aurarul -- 4.1.3 Further Uses of the Term aurar -- 4.2 ZLĂTAR, pl. ZLĂTARI -- 4.2.1 First Occurrences of the Term zlătar -- 4.2.2 Requalification of the zlătari into Steelmakers
4.2.3 The High Status Zlătari. The Case of Mihai Oțel -- 'Michael the Steel' -- 4.2.4 Other Occurrences of oțelar 'Steelmaker' -- 4.2.5 Later Occurrences of the Term zlătar in Wallachia -- 4.2.6 Conclusion: Co-Occurrence of the Terms aurar and zlătar, Replacement and Semantic Shift -- 4.3 RUDAR, pl. RUDARI -- 4.3.1 The First Occurrence of the Term rudar, Mid-Sixteenth Century -- 4.3.2 Last Rudar Gold-Washers, Mid-Nineteenth Century -- 4.4 BĂIEȘ, pl. BĂIEȘI -- 4.5 LINGURAR, pl. LINGURARI -- 4.6 Conclusions -- Chapter 5 Considerations on the Terminology of Slavery, rob and țigan
5.1 The Semantical Evolution of the Terms rob, țigan, celiad, sălaș -- 5.1.1 ROB, ROBIE -- 5.1.2 ȚIGAN and CELIAD/SĂLAȘ -- 5.2 Conclusions -- Chapter 6 The Relations of Cozia Monastery with the Rudari (1388-1716) -- 6.1 The Emergence of the State of Wallachia -- 6.2 The Donation Act According to the Registers of the Cozia Monastery -- 6.3 Wallachia's Gold -- 6.4 Mining Traditions and Regulations -- 6.5 Copper Mines in Oltenia -- 6.6 Organising Gold Mining in Wallachia -- 6.7 Institutionalisation of the Rudari -- 6.8 Rethinking the Donation of the Rudari -- 6.9 The rob Slave Status of the Rudari
Notes Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources
Subject Gold mines and mining -- History
Gold miners -- Biography.
Gold miners
Gold mines and mining
Genre/Form Biographies
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 3657790381
9783657790388