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On the example of the Civil Code Opchinska naredba od zlocsinstvah i njihovih pedepsah printed in Budim in 1788, which is in fact the translation of the Criminal Code by Joseph II originally entitled Allgemeines Gesetz über Verbrechen und derselben Bestrafung, it is possible to outline the ways in which the Age of Enlightenment influenced various aspects of life of all people in the empire, to show how the law and the punishment of felonies was regulated, and especially to track the historical development of the C...

Our research starts with a much circulated work of the 18th century, namely Patrick Gordon’s Geography Anatomized, a geography school book compiled after a new method for that time. Extensively used in Britain, it was also very popular in France and Italy and even reached Eastern Europe. The present paper follows an analysis we have undertaken on the European versions of the book and on the linguistic characteristics of its Romanian translation. Focusing on the texts, we now analyze a particular aspect, namely how...

The paper focuses on the oldest known collection of recipes written in Romanian, namely an undated manuscript of an unknown author, elaborated in Wallachia. The authors of the text edition published in 1997 presumed that it was written at the court of the prince Brîncoveanu. It is a singular work in its age as the next cookery book in Romanian is from 1842 and has a French model. The manuscript includes 293 recipes and it ends with advice on ink preparation, silvery cleaning, gun cleaning and gunpowder preparation...