Course I 3207A · Year III · Summer 2025-2026

CONFESSIONAL AND RELIGIOUS MINORITIES IN ROMANIA

Elective (1 of 2) course in History, taught by Daniel Dumitran.

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Overview

Lecturer
Daniel Dumitran
Seminar tutor
Daniel Dumitran
Type of course
Elective (1 of 2)
Language of instruction
Romanian
Erasmus language
English
Domain
History
Field of study
History
Form of education
Full-time
Form of instruction
Class / Seminary
Credit awarded by
Grade
Teaching methods
Lecture, debate.
Entry requirements
Modern History

Aims

Punctual production of new historical knowledge based on in - depth knowledge of a epochs and / or historical problems of medium complexity.

Introduction to the study of population evolution and population policies taken by the modern state in the current Romanian space, from a historical perspective and with the application of methodological suggestions offered by the social sciences.

Establishing possible directions for team research within institutional programs.

Course contents

1. Problems of religious and confessional minorities historiography in early modern Europe. 2.Territory and population. The Principality of Transylvania and the extra-Carpathian Romanian principalities between the Middle Ages and modernity. 3. Religion, economy and society. State policy trends. Case study: Colonization of "landlers" in Transylvania. 4. The Jews. 5. The Armenians. 6. The Catholics from the Romanian countries. 7. The Lutherans. 8. The Calvinists. 9. The Unitarians. 10. The Anabaptists. 11. The Evangelicals. 12 Conclusions. Majority and minorities in contemporary Romania.

Learning outcomes

Approach the relations between majority and minority on a long historical period (Middle Ages - Late modern era, with references needed at present), in the light of religious, economic and social developments; Concrete production of new historical knowledge on the basis of deeper insights within the study of above referred historical subject.

Assessment

Oral exam – 50%; VP – 25%; Oral presentation – 25%

Recommended reading

A History of the Protection of Regional Cultural Minorities in Europe. From the Edict of Nantes to the Present Day
Alcock, Antony
MacMillan Press Ltd., 2000
Eretici italiani in Moravia, Polonia, Transilvania (1558-1611)
Caccamo, Domenico
Le lettere, Firenze, 1999
Austria, Hungary, and the Habsburgs. Essays on Central Europe, c. 1683-1867
Evans, R. G. W.
Oxford University Press, 2006
The Jews of Europe in the Modern Era
Karady, Victor
CEU Press, Budapest, 2004
Early Modern European Civilization and its Political and Cultural Dynamism,
Schilling, Heinz
University Press of New England, 2008