Nedici, Prof. Dr. Radu

University of Bucharest, Romania

Kurzvita

Studium
2001–2005: BA in History, University of Bucharest
2005–2007: MA in South-Eastern European History, University of Bucharest
2007–2011: PhD in History, University of Bucharest

wissenschaftliche Anstellungen bzw. Tätigkeiten
2010–2015: Adjunct Lecturer, University of Bucharest
2015–2016: Latin Palaeography Expert within the project “Digitization of the Medieval Documents in the National Archives of Romania”
2015–2021: Assistant Professor, University of Bucharest
Since 2021: Associate Professor, University of Bucharest

wichtige wissenschaftliche Funktionen und Mitgliedschaften
2013–2014: Postdoctoral fellow of the Research Centre for the Humanities, Institute of History of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest with a project titled: “Confessional politics in an age of toleration: Projects for financing the religious union in Transylvania and Partium, 1761–1780”
2018–2020: Principal investigator, postdoctoral research grant of the Romanian National Council of Scientific Research, on a project titled: “Dissent and toleration in Habsburg Transylvania: A socio-political history of the Orthodox protests (1740s–1760s)”

Laufzeit des Stipendiums
01.09.2023 – 30.11.2023

Forschungsprojekt

Emperor Joseph II’s Travels to the Eastern Lands of the Habsburg Monarchy: Power and Knowledge in the Enlightenment

In a ground-breaking departure from the practices of mediality that traditionally sat at the core of early modern governments’ knowledge acquisition, Emperor Joseph II (1765/1780–1790) travelled widely through the Monarchy to gain direct awareness of the provincial circumstances. My project draws on the prodigious records of his first visit to Transylvania in 1773 and compares it to those to Hungary, the Banat, and Galicia in the attempt to delineate Joseph II’s agenda for traveling. His inspection tours to the easternmost provinces of the Monarchy afford an opportunity to question the supposed epistemic value of the imperial journeys themselves. In a broader sense, they also make for a substantial case study on which to assess how the resulting knowledge was used to influence decision in the closed political system that characterized the Monarchy during the second half of the eighteenth century. The investigation thus considers three entangled questions: Why has Joseph II rejected mediality as the dominant mean to acquire knowledge? What kind of insights were his personal trips able to produce? How did direct knowledge contribute to devise the reform policies of Josephism?

Veröffentlichungen zum Thema

“Preludiul reformelor: Ce a văzut împăratul Iosif al II-lea în călătoria prin Transilvania din anul 1773?’ [The prelude to reform: What did Emperor Joseph II saw in his travel across Transylvania in 1773?], in Călători și călătorii. A privi, a descoperi, vol. 1: Incursiuni în istorie și artă, eds. Cristina Bogdan and Silvia Marin Barutcieff (București: Editura Universității din București, 2016), 305–316.