> Andre Du Nay is an "anonymous" Hungarian guy. Unfortunately, right
> now, I
> cannot remember his name.
> I would take very carefully a book printed by Corvinus Publishing and
> make
> it available on an irredentist web site like Corvinus Library.
>
> S o r i n
I can asure you that I'd be 100 times more careful than you could,
Sorine,
;-) but whoever the guy might be, his book (of course aimed at
demolishing
any Romanian "continuity" theory) is by no means a petty propaganda
concoction. It is the work of someone who's an expert. (AFAI can
remember,
its chief and immediate purpose was to criticize official history books
written by luminaries, such as Stefan Pascu, who wrote or coordinated
those standard works that were approved by Ceausescu's regime especially
in the 70s and 80s.)
Therefore, leaving aside the purpose (deeply rooted in the Hungarian-
Romanian relationship), I deem the text as a good introduction in the
matter
of the history of the Romanian ethnogenesis. Moreover, a pretty good
food
for thought from the perspective of the series of weak points in the
Romanian mainstream historiography in interpreting certain things. (Only
one example: just think of how the discovery of that Christian votive
object "EGO ZENOVIVS VOTVM POSSVI" is presented by Romanian main-
stream historiography, as a proof of the existence of strong Xtian
communities
in central Dacia in the 4th century, while neglecting the fact that in
the
area of the unearthing (Biertan / Bierthälm) there weren't discovered
other
things, such as traces at least of a chapel, let alone monastery,
cloister
or the like, as well as of other types of sites. It could very well
have been
an object from among other objects... stolen by some "barbarian". For
the next few centuries, archeologists anyway cannot demonstrate a conti-
nuity of a Romance population over there, unlike in the southern Dacias,
where the Roman life under Roman administration went on more than 3
centuries after Rome decided the withdrawal from N-Dacia.)
George