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.%20Issue / 2013  
         
  Article:   CIVIC CONTROL OF SAINTHOOD IN LATE MEDIEVAL TRANSYLVANIA.

Authors:  CARMEN FLOREA. 		 
       
         
  Abstract:  This study aims to investigate the shaping of civic religion in late medieval Transylvanian towns. Its starting point is represented by a discussion of existing research that focused on the concept of civic religion both in the Italian city-states and the towns of northern Europe. The characteristic features of civic religion will then be explored in connection to several Transylvanian examples provided by the cult of the parish patron saints. The chosen case studies concern the most important towns of the region (Bistriţa, Braşov, Cluj and Sibiu) that will be explored from the point of view of the way the city councils’ involvement in the promotion of parochial protectors decisively contributed to the transformation of these cults into civic ones. As a result, further nuances will be added to the on-going discussion of the concept of civic religion.

Key-words: civic religion, parish, cult of the saints, towns, public, social prestige, late medieval Transylvania, Italian city-states, Northern Europe 		 
         
     
         
         
      Back to previous page