EIN SCHAUPROZESS IM SIEBENBÜRGEN DES 16. JAHRHUNDERTS?
A POLITICAL LAWSUIT IN TRANSYLVANIA OF THE 16TH CENTURY?
Author(s): Edit SzegediSubject(s): Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence, Political history, 16th Century, Sociology of Religion
Published by: Editura Mega Print SRL
Keywords: political process; religious politics; anti-trinitarianism; the Society of Jesus; laws against religious innovation;
Summary/Abstract: The lawsuit Francisc David was involved in (June 1-3, 1579, Alba-Iulia) was an event of a prime importance in the Principality, both a point of using a new angle on religious politics inside the Principality, and on the history of anti-Trinitarian fight in Transylvania. As the aim of such a lawsuit consisted in punishing Francisc David, in a public lawsuit, for being an innovator and an impious person, we might bring forward the question if such a lawsuit could have been a political one. The pro- reasons (the lawsuit large publicity with the participation of priests of other confessions, its didactic intension), and the anti-ones (the final sentence came in fact following an unexpected turn in the lawsuit progressing) make us conclude that we might rather speak about an attempt of a political lawsuit.
Journal: BANATICA
- Issue Year: 1/2022
- Issue No: 32
- Page Range: 135-160
- Page Count: 26
- Language: German