The Transylvanian Principality in the interwar publications of the Romanian School from Rome (XVII century) Cover Image

Principatul Transilvaniei în publicaţiile interbelice ale Şcolii Române din Roma (secolul al XVII-lea)
The Transylvanian Principality in the interwar publications of the Romanian School from Rome (XVII century)

Author(s): Veronica Turcuş
Subject(s): History
Published by: Editura Academiei Române
Keywords: Romanian School in Rome; archivistic; Catholic missionaries; Transylvanian Principality; Counter Reformation

Summary/Abstract: Romanian schools in France and Rome were founded at the beginning of the 1920's as post-graduate learning institutions intended for the specialization of young stipendiaries in such domains as Ancient History and Archeolgy, Medieval and Modern History, Auxiliary Sciences, Romanic Philology, Art History, but also Architecture and Fine Arts. Archival research has held an important role both in the study programmes of the Romanian School in France led by Nicolae Iorga and in those established in the Romanian School in Rome by the founding headmaster Vasile Pârvan. In the inter-war period the Romanian School from the capital of Italy had a permanent contingent of 3-4 stipendiaries, all coming from the four university centers of the whole Romania, who had archival research in progress, targeted on the subject of Oriental Romanity. The results of the research, conducted mainly at Archivio Segreto Vaticano, Archivio della Sacra Congregazione di Propaganda Fide or in a series of funds belonging to Roman nobility were published in the beginning in "Ephemeris Dacoromana. Annuario della Scuola Romena di Roma", a periodical which first appeared in 1925, including the works ellaborated by the first generation of stipendiaries in 1923 and later on appeared in the School's archivistical yearbook titled "Diplomatarium Italicum. Documenti raccolti negli archivi italiani", a bulletin founded in 1926. The documents edited in the yearbooks of the Romanian School in Rome by a series of stipendiaries of the institution such as Claudiu Isopescu, G. Călinescu, V. Vasiliu, N. Buta, I. Moga, A. Mesrobeanu, C. Radu, D. Găzdaru, M. Berza, A. Decei, Gh. Vinulescu, F. Pall, offer a perspective on the situation in the Romanian countries, such as it could be observed from the Roman Curia. From the same perspective, the documents edited in the interar period in the yearbooks of the Romanian School in Rome, offer us an image of the evolution of the Transylvanian Principality in the XVII-th century, with more generous information concerning the years when the principality played an important role in the political and military evolutions in the area, especially in the context of the anti-Ottoman empire actions stimulated by the Habsburg empire and under the patronage of the Holy See. The overview on Transilvanian Principality in the XVII-th century is noted from the Vatican authorities’ point of view based on the nuntius' information and those of the Counter Reformation agents in the area, mirroring especially those aspects in Transylvanian evolution which interested the Holly See: the unfolding - thoroughly noted - of the military and political events in the principality, on the background of numerous conflicts in the region and within the general context of the anti-Ottoman policy maintained by the Apostolic See. Also noted was the confessional situation, set against the background of the Counter Reformation and the interest regarding its progress in the area.

  • Issue Year: LI/2012
  • Issue No: 51
  • Page Range: 81-99
  • Page Count: 19
  • Language: Romanian