The Transylvanian School – a new assessment

Abstract

A recently published anthology, dedicated to the Transylvanian School, allows for a new assessment of the role the well-known cultural, political and linguistic movement played in the creation process of Romanian modern culture. The chrestomathy also offers the possibility of a documented correlation between the ideas formulated by the Transylvanian Latinists and the principles which Ion Heliade Rădulescu included in the programme of implementation of unique supradialectal norms in literary Romanian writing of the 19th century.

Keywords

• the transylvanian school
• modern literary romanian language
• etymological spelling
• literary vocabulary
• diachronic perspective
• ion heliade rădulescu