Activitatea elitei culturale româneşti transilvănene din secolul XVII ca paradigmă pentru intelectualitatea veacului următor
ACTIVITY OF ROMANIAN CULTURAL ELITE FROM TRANSYLVANIA FROM THE XVIITH CENTURY AN EXAMPLE FOR INTELLECTUALS OF THE FOLLOWING CENTURY

Summary/Abstract: We understand by „cultural elite” the group who knows writing, which is composed, for the XVIIth century of scriveners, improvised translators, composers of funeral lines, employees of printing houses. The most important category is constituted by editors and translators of texts published in Alba Iulia between 1648 and 1702, out of whom, I consider, protopope Ioan Zoba from Vinţ has a leading role. The activity of this elite concentrated almost wholly on the religious field and consisted of translations of the Scripture books (the New Testament, the Psalter) and those of ritual (Euchologion, Horologion, Diaconarium), the translation respectively compilation of a repertory of funeral sermons (Sicriul de aur, Cazanii la oameni morţi), religious songs and catechesis texts (cathechisms, Cărare pre scurt spre fapte bune îndereptătoare) and reproduction in manuscript of some homiletic corpora usually printed outside Transylvania (Cazania lui Varlaam). The paradigms that this cultural activity might offer would consist in the model followed in the case of translations, the structure of speech and its inspiration sources. Neither remains valid the moment when the first generation of authentic intellectuals assumes the task of instructing their own contemporaries. But in parallel with their activity, Romanian society continues to spiritually develop from the inheritance left by the previous century, whose utility reaches in the first half of the XVIIIth century its climax.

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