Loialități concomitente și concurențiale la românii din Transilvania și Vechiul Regat în a doua jumătate a secolului al XIX-lea și la începutul secolului al XX-lea
Concurrent and competing loyalties among Romanians from Transylvania and the Old Kingdom in the second half of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century

Summary/Abstract: The 19th century in the course of history, also called the “Century of the Nations”, represented for the Romanians a period of great transformations and achievements, on a national, political, social and cultural level, but also of breakthroughs and deep emotional and conscience upheavals. The present study aims to analyze the feeling of loyalty towards the ruler among Romanians from Transylvania and the Old Kingdom, in the second half of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century. We have followed the winding and contradictory path of this feeling in the two territories inhabited by the Romanians, in the context of the process of awakening the national consciousness. As a research methodology, we propose a mirroring perspective, reflecting the two types of loyalty, national and dynastic, towards the Romanian Royal House and towards the House of Habsburg respectively. The study reveals the competitive path between the national ideals of unity, emancipation and dynastic loyalty. It offers the reader interesting and exciting aspects regarding the process of conscience conversions, the ideological impact on individual or collective beliefs, the effects of propaganda and censorship in mobilizing the masses, and also the constructive tradition of the cultivation of certain values, virtues, opinions, through education.

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