Course aims:

This course aims to introduce MA students to the main history terminology which is characteristic for the Enlightenment period
Mainly, it will be analyzed the irradiative role which Vienna, Budapest and Göttingen had at political, cultural and ecclesiastical levels and its result in the process of national identity in Transylvania.
This course aims to introduce MA students to the main history terminology which is characteristic for the Enlightenment period

Course Entry Requirements:

Introduction in Modern History of Romanians; Culture and Civilization in Romanian Society in Modern Epoch.

Course contents:

1. Introductory course: themes and bibliography. 2. Transylvania from the Old Regime to the New Regime. 3. Enlightenment – Aufklärung in Transylvania. 4. Regional identities and Enlightenment in Transylvania. 5. Regional identities and Enlightenment in Transylvania. 6. “Irradiative” centres for the Romanian Enlightenment: Trnava, Rome, Vienna, Budapest and Goettingen. 7. Romanian Enlightenment and European Enlightenment: ideas’ exchange. 8. Romanian Enlightenment in Transylvania. 9. Enlightenment – national consciousness and national movement. 10. Enlightenment, state and reformism. 11. Enlightenment and its impact to social dynamics. 12. Confessional identities in the Habsburg Empire. Transylvanian Romanians in the 18th century. 13. From Enlightenment to Romantism. 14. Course’s conclusions.

Teaching methods:

Lecture, conversation, exemplification

Learning outcomes:

• retrieval of written sources on the historical past; • establishing historical facts on the basis of historical sources and outside of these; • the concrete production of new historical knowledge on the basis of deeper insights within the study of an epoch and/or of a medium complexity historical subject.

Learning outcomes verification and assessment criteria:

Written paper – interpretative essay – 60%; continuous assessment – 40%.

Recommended reading:

Stanciu, Laura, Popa-Gorjanu, Cosmin (eds), Transylvania in the Eighteenth Century: Aspects of Regional Identity, Mega Publishing House, Cluj Napoca, 2013, 249.
Hitchins, Keith, The Identity of Romania, The Encyclopaedic House, Bucuresti, 2009, 240.
Neumann, Victor, Transylvanian Enlightenment European influences and local intellectual ambitions, in Transylvania in the Eighteenth Century. Aspects of Regional Identity, Mega Publishing House, Cluj Napoca, 2013, 50.
Porter, Roy, Teich, Mikulas, The Enlightenment in National Context, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2000, 560.