Neoabsolutismul -o reeditare a absolutismului luminat? Câteva perspective comparative
Neo-Absolutism – A Reiteration of Enlightened Absolutism? Some Comparative Perspectives

Summary/Abstract: The interesting but controversial decade of Neoabsolutism, which followed after the Revolution of 1848, can be analyzed too as a continuation or reissue of the enlightened Absolutism, which shaped through reforms the institutional framework of the Habsburg Monarchy. Though an oppressive and authoritarian system, the Neoabsolutism implemented many reforms, some of them continuations of the Enlightenment agenda, but other political decisions, such as the Concordate with Vatican, exposed a more conservative side of this period. In a complex crown land as Transylvania, dominated by the necessary, but after 1848-49 heavily impacted cooperation of the main three nationalities and its confessions, these issues appeared in a more complex manner. In the mentioned decade, more reforms were implemented, some of them new and some as a continuation of the older reformistic program, which is easy to understand since these continuities were part of an institutional identity of the monarchic state. This paper tries to address some of these aspects in a general matter and specifically in their Transylvanian manifestation.

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