Note la recitirea unei biografii: ambiţiile nobiliare ale lui Inochentie Micu
Notes at Rereading a Biography: Inochentie Micu's Claims to Nobility

Summary/Abstract: The age of postmodernism allowed the appearance of a strange direction at the level of historiographic criticism. Everything that wasn't written according to traditional historiography, seemed challenging or not completely understood had been transferred in the "mystical" sphere of postmodernism. This developing trend impresses through the force to fragmentize the metadiscourse of traditional historiography, to question its uprightness and to revive the debate upon the infallibility of myths. From this point of view the biography of Inochentie Micu can be read in a different perspective, regarding private aspects of his life. As a result, the study is concerned with the evolution of Inochentie Micu's career as it comes out from his aristocratic behavior. In order to be accepted as the equal of other members in the Transylvanian Diet he made himself a royal lineage. Due to the solidarity existent within the Romanian social elites, he managed to increase the income of the episcopate. From this position he struggled to improve both the status of Romanian elites and peasantry. Up to this moment the history of elites in Transylvania seemed to ignore aristocratic behaviors and focus on the moments concerning the Romanian national movement. Inochentie Micu's purpose, however, remained the same: to equalize the ethnic meaning of nation with the judicial (constitutional) one. This postmodernist approach reveals the human side of the bishop, a side which strengthens his image of an uncompromising leader.

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