Edictul de toleranţă iosefin în Transilvania: repere istoriografice şi perspective ale cercetării
The Josephine Edict of Tolerance in Transylvania. Historigraphic Milestones and Research Perspectives

Summary/Abstract: The present study investigates the significances of the Edict of Tolerance issued by Emperor Joseph II for the principality of Transylvania (8 November 1781), from the perspective of the interpretation of the subject in Transylvanian historiographies (German, Hungarian and Romanian) and in the works of prominent foreign historians preoccupied with these issues (I. Tóth Zoltán, Mathias Bernath, Angelika Schaser). By approaching the works with interpretational value, and equally the documentary contributions, the author pursues to underpin convergences, respectively divergences in the interpretation of the subject. At a larger scale, the author tries to set these interpretations against those expressed in European historiography, with special reference to the main significances of tolerance: religious and civil. The presentation of the present state of research of the subject and of the validity of interpretations expressed in older and more recent historiography takes into account the establishment of departure points for a future in-depth investigation of the topic, which will outline the specificity of the concept of tolerance promoted in Transylvania, as compared with the other provinces of the empire.

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