„Erdély hegyei felett vérvőrőssé válik a mennybolt” Az erdélyi ferencesek 1916-ban. Mindennapok, közösség és háború
“The Sky Turns Blood-Red over the Mountains of Transylvania!”: The Franciscans of Transylvania in 1916: Daily Life, Community, and War

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the article is to present – from a distance of 110 years from the events – the year 1916 of the Transylvanian Franciscan communities: their everyday lives, their communal experiences, and their relationship to the defining events of the era. Due to constraints of length and the wide-ranging nature of the sources, the article ultimately focuses on a deeper examination of the Historia Domus of three distinct community types: the provincia administrative center in Kolozsvár/Cluj-Napoca, the small community of Esztelnek/Estelnic, and the scattered congregation of Körösbánya/Baia de Criș. The source value of the house histories is further enhanced by the fact that the chroniclers did not always strive for a purely objective tone: they frequently wove personal opinions about certain events or individuals into their texts, which allows us to draw partial inferences about the prevailing mood of Hungarian public thought in that era. Another defining characteristic of these sources is their level of detail: the authors endeavoured to record with precision not only the events of the war, but also domestic political developments and social tensions, making this source type a valuable instrument to research the period

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