BOOK REVIEW: SORIN MITU (ED.), "ENCICLOPEDIA IMAGINARIILOR DIN ROMÂNIA III. IMAGINAR ISTORIC". GENERAL EDITOR: CORIN BRAGA. IAȘI, POLIROM, 2020, 407 P.

Abstract

The course of history that epitomizes a nation’s cultural anatomy can be conscientiously revised and reiterated through the perceptive lens of the historian. In their task to impart timeless knowledge, historians perform careful surgeries on the body of history, investigating the abundant forms that gain shape in its configuration. Being invariably prone to move unhindered through the realm of the imaginary, they are amassing fragments of wisdom from both history and historiography. The sphere of the historical imaginary encapsulates at the same time the past events that took place in the nation, taken as factual substance, and the scholarship that postdates these occurrences, with its explanations and interpretations.