Spiritualitate catolică şi învăţământ în Transilvania veacului al XVIII-lea - românii şi oportunităţile lor de studiu în epoca prereformistă
The Catholic spirituality and education in the XVIIIth century Transylvania - the Romanian people and their study opportunities during the decades pre

Summary/Abstract: ABSTRACT: The Catholic spirituality and education in the XVIIIth century Transylvania – the Romanian people and their study opportunities during the decades preceding the Austrian reformism. Most of the studies regarding the Romanian education in the XVIIIth century Transylvania focused on the stage of Maria Theresa and Joseph II’s reforms, period when the concern of the state for the people education development and, implicitly, for the extension and strengthening of the Romanian school net was much more obvious. Therefore, the present analysis wishes to detail the epoch before the reforms, an episode marking the factual roots and beginnings of the Romanian upbringing in Transylvania, which was scarcely researched in the past. Along several pages, the brief study tries to emphasize the fact that, even from the first half of the XVIIIth century, basically on religious propaganda grounds, the imperial Court took over the education policy in the province from the hands of the Church and supported it programmatically, generating numerous study opportunities for the Romanian students who had accepted to assume the Catholic belief. After that, the main centers of the Catholic education in Austria, Hungary and Italy are brought up. These centers, along with the Catholic school net in Transylvania, contributed, even since the primary decades of the XVIIIth century, to the shaping of a relatively substantial Romanian social and cultural, mainly clerical, elite.

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