Eroism şi moarte la românii transilvăneni (sec. XIX - prima jumătate a sec. XX). O posibilă anchetă
Heroism and Death as Seen by the Transylvanian Romanians (from the 19th to the First Half of the 20th Century). A Possible Investigation

Summary/Abstract: The fact that death, as an event, can occur in many ways, implies the existence of a multitude of attitudes created around this situation. Among these, making heroes through death probably constitutes one of the most relevant ideas due to its significations and, on the other hand, due to the mutations it discloses once it has become a model in a society. Moreover, we are not talking about an isolated model, but about a global and functional one, that has considerable history. This means a supplementary note concerning the importance of the analysis in a register of this kind. The hypothesis, seen as a method of historical research, espresses the wish to systematize a possible material (source) of the analysis, together with the possibility of finding new data and initial conclusions with the “final” ones. From this point of view, this article refers to a consideration and delimitation of a possible analysis of the concept of heroism at Romanians in Transylvania throughout the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century. The present research imposes itself due to the interest in the theme of the nation, nationalism and national identity manifested in the historiography of the last decades internationally and nationally. In order to present the directions of this research, the study discuss the research hypotheses, the present stage of the achieved knowledge and its significance, and the sources for this research, trying to establish the necessary steps for the historiographical actions.

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