Tipăriturile religioase româneşti bălgrădene de la mijlocul secolului al XVII-lea şi identitatea confesională ortodoxă
Romanian Religious Printed Works in Alba Iulia at the Middle of the 17th century and the Orthodox Confessional Identity

Summary/Abstract: The present study approaches the printed word - confessional identity relation in order to reconstruct the impact of the confessionalisation process on the Orthodox Romanians in Transylvania during the decades at the middle of the 17th century as reflected in the components of the socially promoted discourse on the religious Romanian identity. Using the forewords and the epilogues of the three most important works printed at the Alba Iulia printing house as documentary sources, the author intends to redefine the semnification and the finality of the printed word as a manifestation of the confessional option made in the hierarchical structures of the Romanian clergy confronted with the intensification of the inter-confessional hostility and propaganda, manifestation invested also with the ability to offer an image on the strategies followed by the Romanian Orthodox Church in order to preserve, build and socially promote its own identity. Consequently the present study intends to reflect not only the transformations in the clerical mentality, their attitudes and behaviour, but also another possible perspective on the impact of the Reformed confessional processes on the Transylvanian society.

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