Rewriting regional history into the national canon in the immediate aftermath of the First World War: a historiographical debate on the history of the
Rewriting regional history into the national canon in the immediate aftermath of the First World War: a historiographical debate on the history of the

Summary/Abstract: The present article discusses a historiographical polemic between two Transylvanian Church historians over the representation of the history of the Church in Transylvania. Zenovie Pâclișanu’s review of Ștefan Meteș’s book „Istoria Bisericii şi a vieţii religioase a românilor din Ardeal şi Ungaria” and Meteș’ response could be discussed in the larger framework - the creation of the national history canon in post First World War Greater Romania. Their debate would also put in perspective the link between nation and religion in the creation of the nation state in post imperial / post First World War East Central Europe. The article looks both at this debate as a historiographical debate but also an institutional debate of the two Romanian Churches in Transylvania and their post war strive to become national institutions of the new state.

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