THE INFANTS’ BREAD. A POST-TRIDENTINE CATECHISM FROM THE BEGINNINGS OF HABSBURG TRANSYLVANIA. BY OVIDIU GHITTA. PARIS: L’HARMATTAN, 2012.
THE INFANTS’ BREAD. A POST-TRIDENTINE CATECHISM FROM THE BEGINNINGS OF HABSBURG TRANSYLVANIA. BY OVIDIU GHITTA. PARIS: L’HARMATTAN, 2012.

Summary/Abstract: The movement of religious union between the Transylvanian Romanians and the Church of Rome and, hence, the founding of the Greek-Catholic Church in Transylvania was a prime topic of research in the Romanians’ modern history. This should come as no surprise, given that the event in question was made responsible by placing the Romanians in a new spiritual-cultural matrix, more strongly connected to the civilization values of Western Europe. But the unanimity of opinions is far from prevailing among specialists in that chronological and thematic cut in history of the Principality of Transylvania. As any moment that generated so profound consequences in the long term, the entry of the Transylvanian Romanians under the authority of the Supreme Pontiff as well has raised countless historiographical controversies and disputes, many of them impregnated with religious partisanship or submitted to other political imperative not at all honorable.

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