Dimitrie Cantemir and the Transylvanian School on the Ideological “Line” of Central Europe in the Modern Age
Dimitrie Cantemir and the Transylvanian School on the Ideological “Line” of Central Europe in the Modern Age
Author(s): Laura StanciuSubject(s): Cultural history, Political history, Social history, History of Education, State/Government and Education, 18th Century, 19th Century, Sociology of Education
Published by: Academia Română – Centrul de Studii Transilvane
Keywords: Romanians; Church; School; Catholic Reformation; Jansenism; Enlightenment; Transylvania; Greek Catholic denomination;
Summary/Abstract: The present study attempts to highlight the originality of the Romanian Enlightenment in Transylvania, looking at the way in which the pre-Enlightenment ideas belonging to Dimitrie Cantemir, grounded in the ideological structure of pre-Romanticism in Central Europe, germinated into the discourse of the members of the Transylvanian School. On the one hand, the author of the study investigates, for each member of the Transylvanian School (Gherontie Cotore, Samuil Micu, Gheorghe Șincai, Petru Maior, Ioan Budai-Deleanu), the takeovers from Cantemir’s work, and, on the other hand, their civic, militant, pragmatic interpretation appropriate to the political priorities in Transylvania.
Journal: Transylvanian Review
- Issue Year: XXXII/2023
- Issue No: 3
- Page Range: 53-67
- Page Count: 15
- Language: English
