Schimbarea conducerii Reuniunii Femeilor Române reflectată în corespondenţa dintre Timotei Cipariu şi Iacob Mureşianu (1855-1865). "Uniţi" şi "neuniţi
The Change in the Leadership of the Romanian Women Association Mirrored in the Correspondence Between Timotei Cipariu and Iacob Mureşianu (1855-1865).

Summary/Abstract: The Change in the Leadership of the Romanian Women Association Mirrored in the Correspondence Between Timotei Cipariu and Iacob Mureşianu (1855-1865). "Uniates" and "Non-Uniates" on the Road to National Assertion. In 1850, the Greek-Catholic canon Timotei Cipariu and the new owner of the journal "Gazeta Transilvaniei", Iacob Mureşianu, carried on a substantial correspondence, unfortunately preserved just fragmentarily. These writings also mirrored the sometimes dramatic tinges of a latent conflict in Transylvania's history between the Greek-Catholic and the Orthodox faiths. Our approach attempts at identifying the responses of the two correspondents to the change in the leadership of the Romanian Women Association, which occurred under circumstances less appropriate to the deeply desired national solidarity focused on the common struggle for the assertion of the national identity, which left room for confessional dissensions. As seen in the aforementioned lines, the national struggle was not spared of less pleasant moments, even with dramatic tinges. Incidents like those caused by bishops Ioan Lemeni, Andrei Şaguna, Alexandru Sterca Şuluţiu would persuade the "lay" leaders of the national movement that the monopolization of leadership by the Romanians' confessional leaders was not a solution on the road to the long desired coagulation of the forces of the nation with the view to a better promotion of the ethnic rights.

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