The Clergy of the Orthodox and Greek Catholic Churches of Transylvania: An Attempt at Building a Database

This article focuses on the construction of the “Confessional Infrastructures Database” of Transylvania. It considers the history of interaction, structural and confessional peculiarities of the two major churches in Romania, i.e. the Orthodox and Greek Catholic Churches between the 19th and early 2...

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Main Authors: Marius Eppel, Oana Sorescu-Iudean
Format: Article
Language:Russian
Published: Ural Federal University Press 2019-09-01
Series:Известия Уральского федерального университета. Серия 2: Гуманитарные науки
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Online Access:https://journals.urfu.ru/index.php/Izvestia2/article/view/4095
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spelling doaj-0d86a7a8dca645bc8b5be1ba0a133fb12020-11-25T02:19:01ZrusUral Federal University PressИзвестия Уральского федерального университета. Серия 2: Гуманитарные науки2227-22832587-69292019-09-01213(190)13815110.15826/izv2.2019.21.3.0523262The Clergy of the Orthodox and Greek Catholic Churches of Transylvania: An Attempt at Building a DatabaseMarius Eppel0Oana Sorescu-Iudean1Университет Бабеш-Бойяи, Клуж-НапокаУниверситет Бабеш-Бойяи, Клуж-НапокаThis article focuses on the construction of the “Confessional Infrastructures Database” of Transylvania. It considers the history of interaction, structural and confessional peculiarities of the two major churches in Romania, i.e. the Orthodox and Greek Catholic Churches between the 19th and early 20th centuries. The authors review historical and nominative resources on the history of the clergy of the two churches and the peculiarities and conditions which accompanied the sources characterising the development of the confessional landscape of the country, revealing their information potential. The authors consider building a database containing data about parish priests and parishes themselves a new stage in studying this key social and professional group as it is essential for the history of the region and the entire country. Referring to the research carried out, the authors conclude that the parish clergy played an important part in the history, culture, and development of Transylvania and that it has not been sufficiently examined by modern historiography. The analysis refers to annual reports made by dioceses and known as schematismae which reflect data about the clergy. The authors pay close attention to the potential of digital approaches when working with statistical or nominative records found in sources produced by the Churches for their own use or that of the state. Additionally, the article focuses on issues underlying data unification and encoding which involves several languages (Romanian, Hungarian, and Latin) and the confessional peculiarities of the terminology of the Orthodox and Greek Catholic Churches. It also provides a preliminary outline of the database structure and contents formed by separate thematic tables and formed with regard to information found in the main sources of the research as well as its potential. The database can be further enlarged by other resources. Finally, the database allows for data to be corrected and serve as a source of comparative research.https://journals.urfu.ru/index.php/Izvestia2/article/view/4095социально-профессиональные группыприходское духовенствоТрансильвания в Новое времяцерковная историяцифровая историябазы данных.
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Oana Sorescu-Iudean
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Oana Sorescu-Iudean
The Clergy of the Orthodox and Greek Catholic Churches of Transylvania: An Attempt at Building a Database
Известия Уральского федерального университета. Серия 2: Гуманитарные науки
социально-профессиональные группы
приходское духовенство
Трансильвания в Новое время
церковная история
цифровая история
базы данных.
author_facet Marius Eppel
Oana Sorescu-Iudean
author_sort Marius Eppel
title The Clergy of the Orthodox and Greek Catholic Churches of Transylvania: An Attempt at Building a Database
title_short The Clergy of the Orthodox and Greek Catholic Churches of Transylvania: An Attempt at Building a Database
title_full The Clergy of the Orthodox and Greek Catholic Churches of Transylvania: An Attempt at Building a Database
title_fullStr The Clergy of the Orthodox and Greek Catholic Churches of Transylvania: An Attempt at Building a Database
title_full_unstemmed The Clergy of the Orthodox and Greek Catholic Churches of Transylvania: An Attempt at Building a Database
title_sort clergy of the orthodox and greek catholic churches of transylvania: an attempt at building a database
publisher Ural Federal University Press
series Известия Уральского федерального университета. Серия 2: Гуманитарные науки
issn 2227-2283
2587-6929
publishDate 2019-09-01
description This article focuses on the construction of the “Confessional Infrastructures Database” of Transylvania. It considers the history of interaction, structural and confessional peculiarities of the two major churches in Romania, i.e. the Orthodox and Greek Catholic Churches between the 19th and early 20th centuries. The authors review historical and nominative resources on the history of the clergy of the two churches and the peculiarities and conditions which accompanied the sources characterising the development of the confessional landscape of the country, revealing their information potential. The authors consider building a database containing data about parish priests and parishes themselves a new stage in studying this key social and professional group as it is essential for the history of the region and the entire country. Referring to the research carried out, the authors conclude that the parish clergy played an important part in the history, culture, and development of Transylvania and that it has not been sufficiently examined by modern historiography. The analysis refers to annual reports made by dioceses and known as schematismae which reflect data about the clergy. The authors pay close attention to the potential of digital approaches when working with statistical or nominative records found in sources produced by the Churches for their own use or that of the state. Additionally, the article focuses on issues underlying data unification and encoding which involves several languages (Romanian, Hungarian, and Latin) and the confessional peculiarities of the terminology of the Orthodox and Greek Catholic Churches. It also provides a preliminary outline of the database structure and contents formed by separate thematic tables and formed with regard to information found in the main sources of the research as well as its potential. The database can be further enlarged by other resources. Finally, the database allows for data to be corrected and serve as a source of comparative research.
topic социально-профессиональные группы
приходское духовенство
Трансильвания в Новое время
церковная история
цифровая история
базы данных.
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