The STUDIA UNIVERSITATIS BABEŞ-BOLYAI issue article summary

The summary of the selected article appears at the bottom of the page. In order to get back to the contents of the issue this article belongs to you have to access the link from the title. In order to see all the articles of the archive which have as author/co-author one of the authors mentioned below, you have to access the link from the author's name.

  
       
         
    STUDIA HISTORIA - Issue no. Sp. Issue / 2012  
         
  Article:   TRANSYLVANIAN IDENTITIES: SWEDISH TRAVELLERS’ OBSERVATIONS FOR THE 17TH – 19TH CENTURIES REALITIES.

Authors:  . 		 
       
         
  Abstract:  Transylvanian identities: Swedish travellers’ observations for the 17th – 19th centuries realities. Swedish travellers’ observations regarding Transylvania’s peoples represent a pertinent external view on the complex relationship between ethnicity, confession and nationality in 17th – 18th centuries, religious beliefs shared by the distinct ethnic communities they encountered in this area being one of the most important markers of identity. Moreover, these notes offer a number of plausible historical explanations for the changes which occurred during the 19th century in the ways that national identity was conceived by the Hungarian, Saxon and Romanian elites, this process taking place especially after the 1848-1849 Revolution and until the dissolution of the Austrian-Hungarian Empire in 1918.

Keywords: collective identities, Transylvania, religion and nationality, Swedish travellers, 17th – 19th centuries 

  
         
     
         
         
      Back to previous page