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The history of Iceland is characterised by numerous adversities, including natural and maritime disasters, climate-related calamities, crop failures, epidemics, poverty, and other catastrophes. Extensive literature exists on maritime disasters along Iceland’s coasts, particularly major shipwrecks and offshore disasters, which often focus on the sequence of events and the fate of those who survived or perished in their struggle against the sea. Less scholarly attention has been devoted to the impact of such disaste...

The concept of legitimacy belongs to our common set of notions which are frequently encountered in numerous studies of political ideology and power. Still, we believe that it needs to be better circumscribed and defined. Legitimacy seems to refer to the legal, official and recognized rules to which circumscribes each attribute of the political power. The hierarchical, arbitrary character of the power relations may be hidden and even denied by their presentation as being legitimate. Our hypothesis is that far from ...

At the end of the XV century and the beginning of the XVI, the image of the prince was contoured by the Bible, a real pedagogical instrument which exclusively defined the notions of good and evil, of justice and injustice – the Bible was establishing how an ideal prince should be. In the same time the biblical figures were models with whom the voivode desired to resemble with and which influenced their behaviors and mentality. Studying the cases of Radu the Great and Neagoe Basarab, we were able to construct the...