Radu Drăgulescu, Literatura religioasă din Transilvania în sec. al XVII-lea. Aspecte ale dezvoltării limbii române literare
The Contribution of 17th Century Religious Literature from Transylvania to the Development of Romanian Literary Language
Located between West and East border, Romanian society could take full advantage of all the surrounding cultural resources. On the contrary, it frequently happened that this phenomenon produced stagnation, because of disputes between conflicting theories and doctrines of both worlds: the hungry for progress in the West, and the East area, that was apparently hostile to modernity and prosperity of any such material. Combating the reading of books, because according to their conceptions books lead to heresy, the Slavs borrowed from Byzantine culture everything related to cult and religious views. That is the pattern on which Slavic religious culture was transferred to Romanian Countries. Copies and translations of religious books in the fifteenth century are the first steps in Romanian culture. Soon after, scholars feel the urge to use their own language, and since the sixteenth century, they have replaced gradually Slavonic with Romanian language, approaching their people.
Keywords: history of literary language, development of literary language, religious books, printing press in Moldova, printing in the 17th century, Romanian literature in the 17th century
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