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Mária PAKUCS is a senior researcher with the “N. Iorga” Institute of History (Bucharest), Romanian Academy. She received her PhD in 2004 from the Department of Medieval Studies, Central European University, Budapest, and her habilitation in 2022 from the Romanian Academy. She was a New Europe College fellow in 2003-2004, a Fernand Braudel fellow at the MSH Paris (2004), and an Andrew W. Mellon fellow at the Herzog-August Bibliothek in Wolfenbüttel (2006). She was member of the LuxFass project, an ERC-CoG-2014 no. 646489 hosted by the NEC and coordinated by Constanța Vintilă, and now is principal investigator of the “Good governance (gute Policey) in the towns of Transylvania and Wallachia, 1500-1800”, project no. PN-III-P4-PCE-
2021-0376 financed by the Romanian National Council for Scientific Research (UEFISCDI).
The research interests of Mária Pakucs were mostly shaped by her extensive work in the archives of Sibiu (Romania): history of trade with the Ottoman Empire, merchant networks in South-eastern Europe, urban history, and the concept of “good governance” in the early modern period.
In the TransCorr, Mária Pakucs will investigate the changes of political vocabulary in the early modern polity of Transylvania, the political and administrative discourse on governance, and the idea of “corruption” and “abuse” at local levels. Moreover, she will trace the career and activity of a little-known governor of Transylvania, Ladislaus Bánffy in a micro-historical approach.
Email: [email protected]
Selected Publications:
“The idea of good marriage at the end of sixteenth century Transylvania. Mathias Raw vs. Catharina Birthalmer,” in Common Man, Society and Religionin the 16th Century/ Gemeiner Mann, Gesellschaft und Religion im 16. Jahrhundert. Piety, morality and discipline in the Carpathian Basin / Frommigkeit, Moral und Sozialdisziplinierung im Karpatenbogen, ed. Ulrich Wien, Göttingen, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2021. p. 309-320.
Policy and Policey and Obrigkeit: The ideology of political power in sixteenth-century Sibiu (Hermannstadt), in Reform and Renewal in Medieval East and Central Europe: Politics, Law and Society, Minerva III. Acta Europaea, vol. 15, Studies in Russia and Eastern Europe, vol. 14, ed. by Suzana Miljan – Éva B. Halász – Alexandru Simon, Romanian Academy – Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts – School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London, Cluj-Napoca – Zagreb – London, 2019, p. 643-663
“This is their profession:‟ Greek merchants in Transylvania and their commercial networks at the end of the 17th century, Cromohs- Cyber Review of Modern Historiography, vol. 21, 2017/2018, p. 36-54.