Entre abstinence et abondance: sur l’alimentation du clergé de Blaj au XVIIIe siècle
Between abstinence and abundance: on the clercs’ diet of Blaj in the XVIIIth century

Summary/Abstract: The study examines how Romanians and their Church were referring to tradition in the 18th century, by researching the phenomenon of religious fast, the most visible part of the practice of religious life. For Transylvanian Romanians, post was also a dissociative identity resource. It was used efficiently when the priests of the united Church were accused by the unmarried monks Visarion Sarai and Sofronie that they did not respect the Church's tradition, that is, the "ancestral law" by "breaking the posts." In response, the blahs have avoided changing the strictness of Eastern food abstinence, so as not to be accused of bringing about renewal, ruining Romanian law. The Diacrony of the changes recorded in the epoch led to the breaking of the monopoly of the unique Church for the Romanians in Transylvania, by re-establishing the Orthodox Church (1761). Thus, gradually, in the United Church, along with Gregory Maior's episcopate, it gradually came to rupture, and to the post, of the exclusive rigor of righteousness.

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