The Religious Policy of the Viennese Court in the Principality of Transylvania (1692-1701): the Case of the Romanians
Journal Title: ANALELE Universității DIN ORADEA. SERIA: RELAŢII INTERNAŢIONALE şI STUDII EUROPENE - Year 2010, Vol 0, Issue 0
Abstract
In the view of the Habsburg Empire the church union was to strengthen the fragile Catholic block in the Principality, on one hand, and on the other, it was to stimulate politically and socially a large ethnic and confessional group, which was quite marginalized, and to determine implicitly, a strong dependency upon the Habsburg dynasty. Hadn’t it been for the involvement of the imperial authorities, the Romanians’ union would have had few chances to be fulfilled. By the end of the 17th century in Transylvania the main social categories were dominated by the Reformation confessions, even the Governor was a Calvinist. The partisans of the Reformation were looking with restraint, even with hostility at the consolidation of the Catholic Church. At the very beginning the imperial authorities’ involvement in the unionist action was characterized by cautiousness. But as the Reformation partisans expressed their disagreement with the Romanians’ union with the Church of Rome, the imperial authorities did their best to make the Romanians unite only with the Church of Rome.......
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Sorin Șipoș
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