Course aims:

- to define, describe, and explain the key concepts, theories, methods specific to the historical discourse and to develop in students some specific skills about the quantitative and qualitative historical research;
- to identify and use the specific bibliographic and archival resources;
- to develop skills of analysis and interpretation of historical data;
- to identify the most important events and personalities which have marked the historical evolution of the Romanian Orthodox Church and the Romanian culture in the inter-war period, and to notice the dynamics of events;
- to apply the principle of right interpretation of the historical phenomenon by the just reporting to its influence on the present

Course Entry Requirements:

N/A

Course contents:

1. The foundation of the Greek-Catholic Church in Transylvania (1698-1701); 2. The Metropolitan See of Alba Iulia and the Catholicism at the beginning of the 18th century; 3. The Greek-Catholic Church in Transylvania during the first decades; 4-5. The Greek-catholic bishop Inochentie Micu; 6-7. Abandonments from Greek-Catholicism during the 18th century; 8-9. Alba Iulia in the second half of the 18th century: Orthodoxy and Greek-Catholicism; 10-11. The Orthodox Church and the Greek-Catholic Church in the second half of the 18th century; 12. The Transylvanian national movement in the 18th century; 13-14. The Transylvanian School (Școala Ardeleană) movement.

Teaching methods:

Lecture, exemplification, conversation, debate.

Learning outcomes:

- critical, selective and systematic attitude towards historical information; - ability of applying the principles for understanding a historical document in an appropriate manner, respectively, to take into account all elements involved (linguistic, socio-cultural, political, religious, etc.), and interpret both in a synchronous and diachronic mode; - critical reading skills on bibliographic sources and ability to initiate own research; - interpretation and critical evaluation of the history of the Romanian Church in the inter-war period.

Learning outcomes verification and assessment criteria:

Written paper-interpretative essay – 20%. Frontal evaluation/ Oral exam: 80%

Recommended reading:

Lucian Blaga, Gândirea românească în Transilvania în secolul al XVIII-lea, Editura Ştiinţifică, București, 1966, p.
Silviu Dragomir, Românii din Transilvania şi Unirea cu Biserica Romei. Documente apocrife privitoare la începuturile unirii cu catolicismul roman (1697-1701), în Biserica Ortodoxă Română, nr. 9-10, sept.-oct., IBMBOR, Bucuresti, 1962, p.
Keith Hitchins, Românii 1774-1866, Humanitas, Bucuresti, 2004, p.
Mihai Săsăujan, Politica bisericească a Curţii din Viena în Transilvania (1740-1761), PUC, Cluj Napoca, 2002, p.
David Prodan, Supplex Libellus Valachorum, Editura Ştiinţifică, Bucureşti, 1967, p.