Societăţi culturale româneşti atipice în judeţul Mureş în secolele XVIII-XIX. Aspecte generale
Atypical Romanian Cultural Societies in Mureş County During the XVIIIth-XIXth Centuries. General Aspects

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Summary/Abstract: Without doubt, history of culture proved, during the last decades, to be one of the most generous fields that may be researched from a historical point of view; study of cultural life, both individual and that associative, may express mentality of a period, collective thinking of an established community or in the making, its development phase and last, but not least, its ideals and dreams. And when we refer to XIXth century, a period full of signification both in the European culture and the Romanian one, the subject proves to be much more vast.Our study deals with generically atypical societies, because not all associations or bodies that functioned within the researched period may be included in a well determined associative category. So, we have included those societies that activated in support of culture, even if they did this in various ways: financial support, involvement in promoting assets of written or musical culture, offering stipends to help students with potential, but without sufficient financial means. These societies did not represent interests of some socio-professional categories, but by the offer of cultural activities, they addressed to a vast category of beneficiaries.No matter whether their names bear or not the attribute of „cultural,” the Romanian associations - quite diverse and with almost infinite possibilities of manifestation and participation for the public from Mureş - manifest actively in this field of culturalisation. Maybe only with few exceptions - we have in view the ethnical component of some of the communities from Mureş - these associations manifest in theatre, music, choral groups, libraries, exclusivist cultural circles etc., but they were also better trained professionally - such is the case of proletarian associations from Tîrgu Mureş.

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