Cronica "Quattuor aetates Transylvaniae" de Rudolph Bzensky

  • Subiect: The "Quattuor Aetares Transylvaniae" Chronicle by Rudalph Bzenszky The "Quattuor Aetares Transylvaniae" chronicle is a· copy manuscript made for a book-lover (perhaps for Bunyitay Vincze), which was found in the library of the catholic parish of Belfir, Bihor county. The original was wri1tten in 1693 at Bistrita by Rudolph Bzenszky, who was a military priest in the Austrian army settled in Transylvania in 1637. He is mentioned by Ambruster in „Romanitatea romanilor. Istoria unei idei" and by Szinnyei Jozsef in „Magyar Irok Biete es Munkai". This is, a matter of fact, a summary of the Transylvanian history in four parts the Dacian age, the Roman age, the Hungarian-Saxon age and the Austrian Turkish age, meant to be the introductory part of his capital work „Syllogimaeorum Ecclesiae of Transylvania libri septem" dealing with the ecclesiastical organization of Transylvania. Although Bzenczky is the representative of an „official" ideology of that age (the end of the XVII-th century and the beginning of the XVIII-th one), his chronicle is interesting because it presents a conception which is close related to Cantemir's one, concerning the origin of the Romanian people (Romanorum reliquiae). Bzenszky does not deny the continuity of the Romanians on the Transylvanian territory, because they were here in a huge number when the Hungarians came towards Pannonia and Transylvania in the Xth century. On the other hand, this opusculum is very important for its rich information, concerning the places, the villages, the towns and the cities of Transylvania in Middle Age, so that it is worth being introduced in the scientific circuit and even being known by the common reader.
  • Limba de redactare: română
  • Secţiunea: Istorie medie
  • Vezi publicația: Acta Musei Porolissensis: ActaMP
  • Editura: Muzeul Judeţean de Istorie şi Artă din Zalău
  • Loc publicare: Zalău
  • Anul publicaţiei: 1994
  • Referinţă bibliografică pentru nr. revistă: XVIII; anul 1994; subtitlu: Anuarul Muzeului Judeţean de Istorie şi Artă din Zalău
  • Paginaţia: 205-270
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