A Document-Book for the History of Romanian Culture and Language. Silvestro Amelio, Conciones Latinae Muldavo. Introductory Studies, Text Edition and Glossary By GH. Chivu and Florentina Nicolae, Publishing House of the Romanian Academy, Bucharest, 2023

Abstract

The book recently published by the Publishing House of the Romanian Academy is one of the touchstones that even the best professionals in the field often stumble upon. An old text edition, written between 1725 and 1736, in two languages with a difficult structure and, whatever may be said, foreign to the author, namely Christian Latin and Romanian spoken in Moldavia in an age of dramatic searches for literary forms, is not within everyone’s reach. On the other hand, it is a dogmatic text, with a lexico-semantic, grammatical and pragmatic-stylistic specificity that is difficult to penetrate and convey in the modern era.

Keywords

• conciones
• the homily
• christian latin
• romanian spoken in moldavia
• linguistic and philological studies