Pro refrigerio animae: Death and Memory in East-Central Europe: Fourteenth-Nineteenth Centuries

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Angela Jianu studied English and classics at the University of Bucharest in Romania and obtained a PhD in history from the University of York (UK) in 2004. She currently works as an independent historian copy editor and translator. Her publications include: Women Fashion and Europeanisation in the Romanian Principalities in Women in the Ottoman Balkans eds. Amila Buturovi and Irvin C. Schick (2007) (trans. into Turkish as Osmanl Dneminde Balkan Kadinlari 2009); Earthly Delights Economies and Cultures of Food in Ottoman and Danubian Europe c. 1500-1900 eds. Angela Jianu and Violeta Barbu (Brill Leiden 2018). Gheorghe Lazr is a senior research fellow at the Nicolae Iorga Institute of History (Bucharest Romania) co-editor (with Violeta Barbu) and coordinator of the collection of mediaeval documents Documenta Romaniae Historica B. Wallachia published by the Romanian Academy (10 volumes 19982016). He obtained a PhD in history at Laval-Québec University in 2005. His doctoral dissertation was published in 2006 as: Naissance et ascension dune catégorie sociale: Les marchands en Valachie (XVIIeXVIIIe siècles) (Romanian Academy Award 2008). His published works include edited documents of social economic and family history: Mrturie pentru posteritate: Testamentul negustorului Ioan Blu din Craiova (2010); Documente privitoare la negustorii din ara Româneasc vol. 1 (16561688) vol. 2 (16891714) (2013 2014); Testamente de negustori i meteugari din ara Româneasc (secolele XVII-XIX) 2021.